Thursday, March 19, 2020

"'The pain is off the charts. Everything hurts, nose, toes and ears... I was like one big ball of pain.'"

"He said he cried 'like a little girl' when he moved from his bed to a nearby chair.... 'Imagine your lungs turning solid. It’s like suffocating without holding your nose.... Every time I lay down my breathing gets lower and lower. I thought my lungs would fail me. I was screaming for mercy and praying to God.' By the time Harris made it to the hospital, it was taking him an hour to move 50 feet to his bathroom — and he had to stop twice, lie on the ground and catch his breath before reaching the door...."

From "Coronavirus patient on hellish ordeal: ‘I was screaming for mercy and praying to God'" (NY Post).