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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy 83 yo mother has COVID
Apparently got it from a handyman who has tested positive the week befor and didnt tell her. Symptoms sound relatively mild.
iemanja
(53,001 posts)It must be terribly worrying for you.
brooklynite
(93,834 posts)LisaL
(44,962 posts)I just lost a vaxxed and boosted relative to covid. Initial symptoms was a cough. And it wasn't even a bad cough.
PTWB
(4,131 posts)malaise
(267,784 posts)Nevilledog
(50,659 posts)blm
(112,919 posts)Atticus
(15,124 posts)alwaysinasnit
(5,037 posts)GAdem2016
(41 posts)but it's still scary, so many hugs to you. You've probably already been advised on this by your brother, but it can be handy (and very reassuring) to have one of those pulse oximeters on hand to monitor 02 levels. You can get them off Amazon or at a local pharmacy. Does your mom have access to MA treatments where she is? According to my sister (an MD) there is one MA treatment that works for omicron, but where my mom is located, it's in such short supply that she didn't qualify. You have to be actively immunocompromised to qualify.
Be sure your mom takes it easy and doesn't try to do to much too quickly even when she feels better. My mom felt much better by day 6 and 7, but I think she overdid it, and she woke up day 8 feeling much worse. I was so scared she was taking a turn for the worse that sometimes happens with covid in the second week. However, after another day or two of quiet rest, she was feeling much better.
Scrivener7
(50,773 posts)choie
(4,102 posts)nt
wellst0nev0ter
(7,509 posts)But honestly, I hope she gets well.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Hopefully she'll feel a lot better soon.
LisaL
(44,962 posts)One makes a mistake if one assumes they stay mild.
Bristlecone
(10,081 posts)BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)LeftInTX
(24,541 posts)She was in the hospital for 5 days, but now she is home.
Of course, she is fully vaccinated and has her booster.
LisaL
(44,962 posts)Mild initial symptoms turned into pneumonia. Died after being on a vent.
LisaL
(44,962 posts)Even if initial symptoms are mild, and she is vaxxed and boosted.
Can you get her antibodies or Pfizer's pills?