My friend, Veronica, in Michigan, posted this on Facebook April 5, 2020.?
I have started and stopped this post several times and really truly have struggled with if I should even share my experience but after I shared part of it in response to something a friend posted her and her friends suggested, well rather insisted I share it. I hope if anything, it provides a little peace in these trying times.
Before the social distancing even started the beginning of last month Peter went back to work (in grocery) after having been off for 6 weeks post several hernia repairs. After two days he had a mild fever and found out someone who he had had contact with had what they thought was Covid19. Now remember back to when it was just starting to circulate in the news here. I wasn’t very concerned but he called his doctor anyway and she advised him to self quarantine for 14 days which he did immediately. At the same time so did our whole family, kids were still in school if you remember back that far lol so you get a timeline. I ordered a few things I knew we would need from amazon (toilet paper when you still could only one pack and we are still on that 12 pack lol) and I went to work disinfecting the entire house.
Now I use humor to settle my nerves so fair warning :-). People I don’t think my house had ever been that clean since we built it lol. I did everything and it took days!!! I went as far as cleaning out clothes that didn’t even fit anymore. We hunkered down and Peter rested. After about week his fever and tiredness faded and still stayed in. Fast forward to two weeks later. He was mentally struggling with going back to work because he is one of those at risk people (60+, HBP and scar tissue on his lungs). At this point I went to the grocery store. This was my one trip out of the house and by this point social distancing was in effect and they were slowly shutting down businesses. I did everything they suggested, from wiping down things, not touching my face, using q tip to punch keypad, took a shower when I got home, etc.
Two days later it hit like a ton of bricks. It wasn’t a slow ramp up and I don’t have any underlying conditions and am 44 years old…I think… last time I did the math… ugh. It started with a low grade fever which has never gone above 101 but has hovered around 99.7 without acetaminophen. That part didn’t initially even trouble me because geeze that could have been ovulating temps as far as I knew lol. What did start to worry me was my breathing and how tired I was. With in a day it was like I was breathing hot glass shards and I just felt like I was having to really concentrate on breathing. At first I chalked it up to maybe panic attacks, too much news and social media. I’d love to say that turning off the tv, hiding a lot of types of threads online and catching up on a ton of dvr did the trick but it got worse. At this point we contacted the doctor virtually through Beaumont and after going over everything she said she was sure I had it and to medicate at home and to only come in to the ED if I got to the point I couldn’t breathe. By this point tests were only being given to front line workers and those being admitted and I won’t lie, I was all of the sudden thinking about the worst case scenario.
I hadn’t shared what I was going through with anyone and wasn’t about to call or text my parents and worry them. That night we tried having me sleep in the recliner. I did everything to try and make my lungs feel less constricted ( arms out to my sides ). At this point I had been taking acetaminophen and expectorant like clockwork. It wasn’t getting better and sitting alone in the dark I tried to finally call my parents at some ungodly hour knowing they were probably asleep. I woke up after maybe 3 hours of the roughest sleep ever and we contacted the doctor again and a friend who is a NP. I still felt like I could hang on to the notion of not going into the hospital because now I was crying and was afraid that I might die alone. I have been through cancer and actual wars with bullets flying growing up and nothing was as paralyzing as the fear that was gripping me. I was digging my heals in on not going to the hospital which I know was completely irrational.
About this time I started seeing information about vitamins helping some people. The news was still fighting over the experimental malaria drugs and in my mind I could still talk so I was going to roll the dice, again I know not rational. Prior to this I had tried diffusing some essential oils which I love that zen smell but this seemed to further agitate my breathing so I stopped. I was quarantined even further to just my room. What I am about to share is what I did, what I used and what happened. I am not a doctor, I don’t suggest anyone avoid going to the hospital and yes I kept in touch with mine through out this and my NP friend checked in on me daily via text. Honestly she along with a lot of prayer was my saving grace because it just kept giving me that little dose of hope that this girl thrives on. I love you, you know who you are!!
I have been a Melaleuca customer for 19 years. This isn’t a sales pitch and one of the reasons I hesitated on sharing this. Helping people shop from home for healthier safer products has been my jam and I love it but now I was about to really put their supplements to the test. I had already cleaned and disinfected the house with their EPA approved disinfectant (which is amazeballs but I won’t bore you right now with stats) but I haven’t always been the best customer when it comes to taking my vitamins. Peter is religious, but me…well I make more irrational excuses lol and forget a lot of the time. I started taking their peak performance pack which is a whole host of multi-vitamins and supplements (https://www.melaleuca.com/ProductStore/Product?sku=591) – it took a lot of mind over matter for me to get them all down, I kept taking acetaminophen and expectorant. I took their Activate capsules (https://www.melaleuca.com/ProductStore/Product?sku=2562) and I started drinking their activate drink / 2 packets 3 times a day hot (https://www.melaleuca.com/ProductStore/Product?sku=4545). Like I said I am not doctor and but knew that my body would absorb what it could and the rest would pass the rest. I did this all in the evening. I slept 7 full hours that night and woke up feeling completely different. I wasn’t gasping for air and for the first real time I had some tangible hope. I added having Peter pound on my back and sleeping on my stomach at times. This made the tight constricted feeling in my chest feel more spread out and I could cough up a little here and there. I kept this up but then decided to be stupid again and stop for one day thinking maybe it was a placebo effect or worse yet I was crazy lol. Not smart, I regressed back and by that next morning I was struggling and mentally beating myself up for being stupid. I doubled everything that day.
Fast forward again, I have stayed the course and now have been fever free without medication, can breathe again and am feeling tons better. I am a medical journal reading junkie (stems from having wanted to be a doctor a long time ago) and I am very curious to know why the supplements had such a profound effect. I know the human body is a powerful machine and when we feed it the right things all the way down to a cellular level that it is built to fight. I won’t stop taking my vitamins and supplements anymore but I also wanted to share this because I really did feel as if almost all hope was lost. I was doing everything the experts were suggesting and had I gone one more day feeling like I had when I made that teary phone call at midnight to my parents, I would have not hesitated in going to the hospital because that is how much I was struggling and how hard it was.
It came on fast, it came from the community from going out only 1 time and I didn’t have any of the underlying issues yet it stopped me in my tracks. I want to thank our doctor, our friend and the prayers that my mom covered me in…yes I did finally reach my parents via text. So even if you aren’t feeling sick, please stay in and take your vitamins :-).
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