| trunkswd said: I hope your wife starts to feels better soon. I can only imagine what you are going through. Wanting to help, but there really not being much you can do. My girlfriend and her parents got COVID a week ago. My girlfriend and her dad are pretty all better. Her mom had it worse, but is getting better. |
Thanks. Yep it's frustrating. The best way to help is not getting sick myself, which means staying away :( Basically provide sustenance, medicine and pillows, all you can do.
Her parents are in the same boat, want to help but they're vulnerable as well. My wife is still more worried they'll get it from her or our kids. Her parents come by anyway, drop off food for the kids (I can feed them too lol but they want to help and is appreciated) and watch them swim, the grandparents with masks on. We have a heat wave, just opened the pool up, so the kids are content at least. They don't mind 68F water!
I hope your girlfriend's mother gets over it soon. My brother in law (not my uncle, my kid's uncle) who was the first to get sick now has very painful ribs from extensive coughing. His wife is pretty bad atm, kid was doing better but not over it yet. I guess I got lucky not to catch it and my wife's parents better remain very careful.
My wife's friend with the one lung left (after beating cancer) got a medicine package (lives in the states) and is doing much better already. Here in Canada we just approved two treatment options (Paxlovid and Evusheld) but there's limited supply and she doesn't quite meet the conditions yet (>60 years and Immunocompromised)
Paxlovid, an antiviral drug for treatment of COVID-19 made by Pfizer, was approved in Canada on Jan. 17. Health Canada says as of March 31, it has shipped enough doses for 150,000 people to the provinces and territories, allocated on a per capita basis.
But most of the provinces have only given a small percentage of their Paxlovid doses to patients so far, according to emailed responses to CBC News inquiries. In both Ontario and Alberta, for example, only about three per cent of their doses have actually reached patients.
Despite provinces having so many doses on hand that haven't been used, people have told CBC News that the process of trying to get Paxlovid has been fraught with obstacles, ranging from availability of the drug to a lack of easily accessible places to get it.
That's a problem, experts say, because to be effective, Paxlovid must be taken within five days of developing symptoms.
Too late already, if testing and tracing was still done we might have had a chance. My brother in law wasn't even tested at the hospital, they just send him home saying it's probably Covid, stay home for 5 days. It's the rapid test that sort of confirmed it later. First we though it was another cold one of the kids brought home from school (crazy weather here, heat wave now 30c, last weekend we had wet snow, up and down for a while, high of 14c tomorrow) but it kept getting worse.
The way this pandemic was/is handled doesn't give me any confidence in how a future pandemic will play out.
