NEVER TAKE THE ONES YOU LOVE FOR GRANTED
(Image taken X-Mas 2012)
Yesterday was almost the worst day of my life. My dad tested COVID positive and he got it very bad. He is unvaccinated, and I was at work when this all occurred. So I didn't find out about any of this until I was clocking out at work. Tristan sent me a screenshot of the messages he got from my aunt telling him that there was an emergency, and that my dad was in the hospital. She said his heart may have stopped but they got him resuscitated and semi-stable. I couldn't sleep at all last night, wondering if my dad would even make it the next 24 hours. Turns out not long after resuscitation, he was awake and alert again. By some miraculous act of mercy from the universe, my dad is actually improving.
His fever was getting worse and worse when his wife (my step mom), finally forced him to go to the hospital. She is COVID positive and unvaxxed as well but somehow her case is mild. The drive to the hospital from their house is almost 20 minutes. But these minutes mattered and if they would've waited any longer, my dad would probably be dead right now. He coded in the ER waiting room. His eyes rolled back, he vomited all over himself, and collapsed onto the floor. Thankfully, because they were already in the hospital, the code staff immediately got to work and started CPR. They got him back. He called my step mom and texted my little brother for a little bit until his pain medicine kicked in and knocked him out. I sent him a message before I fell asleep last night...which was a challenge to do when all I could think about was "will he still be here when I wake up in the morning?". Thankfully, he was. In the morning, I saw that he heart reacted the message I sent to him. I was relieved to see that he made it through the night. I sent him another message asking how he is doing and I got a response from him. Nothing felt better than actually seeing that I can still talk to my father. He said he was tired and on anti-viral IV's and narcotic cough syrup. I asked if he was on a biPAP and he said he was only on oxygen treatments and that his O2 levels were increasing again. The respiratory therapists are now working on weaning him off of the oxygen supplement while maintaining his blood O2 levels. Since I see COVID cases of all severities at my job, I knew this was great news. Our goal is to make ou COVID patients as little depended on oxygen treatments and ventilators as possible while the virus makes its course through the immune system. The cause of death for COVID patients is suffocation- either from low blood o2 levels or from the fluid in the lungs (which also prevent the patients from receiving proper oxygen).
It is a waiting game now. I would be lying if I said that I feel better now, cause this stuff is always unpredictable. And I cant help but to imagine worst case scenarios after everything I see at work. I don't want to lose my father. I lost my mother when I was 13, and it was the hardest day of my life back then. But losing my dad would be worse...simply because my mom wasnt always in my life. But my dad was the one who raised me. A huge part of who I am is because of him. I keep thanking my step mom for doing the right thing and the right time, and I want to send a message to the hospital staff to thank the code team and CCU doctors/nurses/therapists for saving his life and giving him another chance. I strongly believe if he was meant to die, he wouldn't have been brought back after he coded. But he's still here. And this serves as a reminder that I should never EVER take the ones I love for granted EVER again. You never know when it will be your last time talking to them. Please pray for my dad.
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XxSebastian_SlaughterxX
Wait, your dad is unvaxxed? that is not good at all. Unvaxxed people are the ones who are the highest at risk right now.
I live in a deeply catholic country, but here even most religious people understand the importance of getting vaccinated. It's incredibly weird for me, as an outsider, to see how in the USA exists this weird intersection between anti-vaxxers and religious beliefs.
Hope your dad continues his recovery and please find a way to convince him to go get vaxxed.
I've been trying to, believe me. I always had they've been using religion as an excuse for exemption here in my country. It really isnt a religious thing, they just use it as an excuse. They think that the vaccine is the government' trying to employ population control. They all follow this fucking conspiracy nut that calls himself "QAnon". Its completely nonsensical and people are dying left and right here in the United States. We are an embarrassment to the rest of the world.
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I wish him luck and wellness.
Vertigo-01
You got it mate. Wishing all of you well
R4PT0R
I really hope your father gets better :(