Al Waters

[Jerry Dunlap]

I don't post much out here but maybe I should considering the e-mails, phone calls, and texts that I have received from family, friends and model boaters who I do consider my friends. It has been amazing and I really do appreciate it. I won't get in to the mess to much this world has gotten in to as it is about politics, the health care system, and economics and the three need to work better than they have for us to survive this. That much I have learned since the pandemic began.
I got Covid-19 the Monday after Mother's Day. I went through the week thinking I had the flu and was riding it out. The following week I toughed it out and that did not work either. If you read actor Tom Hanks interview, I pretty much had the same symptoms that he did. I made the phone call to go get checked out not thinking that I might have Covid-19. After answering the Covid phone questions, they wanted me in emergency ASAP. I went in on May 19th. Spent my 70th birthday the next day with a bunch of nurses traveling in and out of my room checking on me. I was one stage shy of being on a ventilator and I do not have any underlying health issues. I discovered that I was the first person to be put on Remdesivir at this hospital. That was five days of IV. It was working. I was disscharged after 7 days. Getting through Covid-19 is one thing. Now I had to deal with pneumonia of the lungs. I have been on oxygen and using a spirometer to expand the lungs since then. Its the middle of July now and I have a pulmonologist appointment next week. It is to try and determine if I possibly have sleep apnea from the Covid or if it was a pre-existing condition.
I asked a lot of questions from where, to how, to you name it. The most common answer was that there was not enough data yet to support the findings.
All I can say is, do the right things and limit the possibility of the spread until it gets figured out.
And thank you very much for checking on me. It means a lot.

Al Waters

I don't post much out here but maybe I should considering the e-mails, phone calls, and texts that I have received from family, friends and model boaters who I do consider my friends. It has been amazing and I really do appreciate it. I won't get in to the mess to much this world has gotten in to as it is about politics, the health care system, and economics and the three need to work better than they have for us to survive this. That much I have learned since the pandemic began.
I got Covid-19 the Monday after Mother's Day. I went through the week thinking I had the flu and was riding it out. The following week I toughed it out and that did not work either. If you read actor Tom Hanks interview, I pretty much had the same symptoms that he did. I made the phone call to go get checked out not thinking that I might have Covid-19. After answering the Covid phone questions, they wanted me in emergency ASAP. I went in on May 19th. Spent my 70th birthday the next day with a bunch of nurses traveling in and out of my room checking on me. I was one stage shy of being on a ventilator and I do not have any underlying health issues. I discovered that I was the first person to be put on Remdesivir at this hospital. That was five days of IV. It was working. I was disscharged after 7 days. Getting through Covid-19 is one thing. Now I had to deal with pneumonia of the lungs. I have been on oxygen and using a spirometer to expand the lungs since then. Its the middle of July now and I have a pulmonologist appointment next week. It is to try and determine if I possibly have sleep apnea from the Covid or if it was a pre-existing condition.
I asked a lot of questions from where, to how, to you name it. The most common answer was that there was not enough data yet to support the findings.
All I can say is, do the right things and limit the possibility of the spread until it gets figured out.
And thank you very much for checking on me. It means a lot.

Al Waters

Hang in there Al.

Dunny

 

[David Bryant]

nice to hear you are doing better

 

[Tom Foley]

Good news Al , glad to hear the progress . Hopefully this lung situation sorts itself out for you .

 

[David Ashcroft]

Get well , Al

You don't have covid .
You just got a flu and as we get older we are affected more.

Don't believe the BS the Government or health officials tell you ,,they are all on the same team !!
They are Following orders from the UN to install fear into all of mankind ..

 

[LohringMiller]

What!!! This is definitely NOT the flu. What world have you been living in? It is hugely more contagiousthan the flu with aparently 10 times the mortality in a world population that has no immunity. Go to your local hospital and ask them why they are being overwhelmed in patients. If they're smart they won't let you in.

Lohring Miller

 

[Glenn McClintic]

Great to hear you're doing better. Sounds like you will be able to manage your lung recovery one way or another. Take care and give yourself time to heal. Can't wait to see you - I still have the gas mono Lenny built. It would be fun to chase you around the pond again.

Glenn

 

[David Ashcroft]

What!!! This is definitely NOT the flu. What world have you been living in? It is hugely more contagiousthan the flu with aparently 10 times the mortality in a world population that has no immunity. Go to your local hospital and ask them why they are being overwhelmed in patients. If they're smart they won't let you in.

Lohring Miller

Ok

 

[darryl whitman]

Prayers an Godspeed to Al, you can do it..