My husband David has been hospitalized with covid19 for the last 33 days. I've been out of work to take care of our 6 children (3 who we just adopted less than 2 years ago) and be with him in the hospital as much as the ICU allows me...

Our story....

On September 26th, 2021 I started not feeling well, I instantly went to our room, opened the windows and quarantined away from our children and my husband, on the 27th I was tested, I received a call from the Drs office telling me I was negative, I was so relieved I came out of my room and made dinner and had dinner with the whole family. The following morning at 8:14am I received a call from the Drs office telling me "we are so sorry we read you the wrong results, you are positive for covid19!" I went into a complete panic and ran back to my room. I was so scared I had just exposed our children and my husband who already has health complications! Being that my husband had just had his first dose of his vaccine due to his heart Dr just allowing it, I was so scared. On the night of September 30th my husband messaged me and said "babe, I'm not feeling well", my fear had came true. The following morning (Friday) he was tested. Monday morning the Drs office called and said he also was positive. His Dr suggested that he go in for the antibody infusion treatment to help him since he had underlying health conditions. We talked it over and he agreed. On the morning of October 7th he went in for the infusion. That afternoon he was still not doing much better and his o2 had started to drop and he started coughing up blood. He kept wanting to hold off for 24 hours to see if the treatment would help, like they said. By the morning of October 8th he was having troubles breathing and very sick like. I called an ambulance. They immediately put him on high amounts of oxygen and quarantined him in a regular hospital room with a BiPAP machine. The following morning they called me to tell me they wanted him closer to ICU for a medication they needed to use on the BiPAP machine. I agreed. Over the next 22 days he was on a roller coaster of better than worse. It was 1 step forward then 3 steps back. I was advocating for my husband while locked on the outside. His ammonia levels started going up his liver was having issues and the covid pneumonia was causing so many issues. Finally on October 21st quarantine was lifted and I was able to be there with him. I got there to see him in a coma like state, hadn't had medication in 2 days, barely any urine output, just so many things I became angry and confused to why this was going on! I stayed non stop and wouldn't leave his side, I got on the Drs to not give up and fix what was going on! Finally a corepak feeding tube was put in to give him his medications and nutrition, they put wrist restraints on so he wasn't pulling at things, put a sitter in with him to watch him and help. Then they noticed he had a bleed somewhere in the upper GI track, he went through high amounts of pain the next 2 days. October 31st I was approached by the ICU drs who finally got a bed for him and they told me he needs to be there! They gave me 3 options. I chose the one to move him to ICU on a mild sedation to help relax his body and lungs. They started aggressive measures to help him but his lungs were struggling so bad and organs were trying to give out. He went into AFib, his liver wasnt functioning, kidneys were having issues, and a gi bleed that was still going on. On November 5th at 5:50pm my husband failed on the BiPAP and he was successfully intubated. On November 6th the GI Dr went in to find the bleed and found "more than he can count, oozing ulcers". He went in with aggressive measures with medications to stop the bleeding. We are in hopes that this is slowing and or healing the bleeding. He's already had 15 units of blood transfused to date. His ammonia level had been extremely high! They are working to get that down also! Today we have had good numbers on his blood work "moving in the right direction" with hopes it stays that way. They have restarted lasiks today to try and remove the fluid off his body. Hes up almost 100 lbs of fluid.... 

We moved here to Texas 5 years ago from Chicago to start a new life, so I do not have my family with me through this and it's been one of the hardest things to date to do so alone. I ask for prayers for his healing and prayers for my strength!!!! 

I will update each day for those who would like to follow on our journey... 

I thank each and every person who has texted and called and prayed for us!!!! 

Also ahead of time I want to thank each person for your help through this, it's taken me falling to my knees begging God for a miracle to get through this in each and every way possible. I lost my job due to FMLA not being approved and me not being able to return back to work at this time. I felt this was mentioned to me and may be a shot at one less struggle on our plates at the moment. Thank you all so much, God bless ❤️

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