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Not an #AprilFoolsDay Joke: after 17 days at @nyulangone, including 6 days on a ventilator, I’m being discharged! Here’s my final hospital bed selfie. #coronavirus #COVID19 #coronaboy #LatsCovid19Journal 
Thanks to the #HealthcareHeroes here at @nyulangone who not only saved my life, but made a long hospitalization as pleasant as such an experience can be. #coronavirus #COVID19 #coronaboy #LatsCovid19Journal
Here at @nyulangone, a top academic hospital, they’re also engaging in research to help learn more about how to fight diseases like #coronavirus/#covid19; I’m participating in 2 studies. #coronaboy #LatsCovid19Journal
Cf. when my husband was contacted by @NYULangone for medical consent after I was intubated.
"Congratulations! David is eligible to be part of a special FDA drug trial - because he's experiencing life-threatening lung failure & hooked up to a ventilator."
"Congratulations! David is eligible to be part of a special FDA drug trial - because he's experiencing life-threatening lung failure & hooked up to a ventilator."
Specifically (emphasis added): "You are agreeing to the emergency use of clazakizumab... based on a small number of patients who developed similar LIFE-THREATENING PULMONARY FAILURE [from] COVID-19."
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#coronavirus #COVID19 #CoronaBoy #LatsCovid19Journal
"In these patients, a drug similar to clazakizumab showed promise as an effective treatment for PATIENTS WITH RESPIRATORY FAILURE WHO WERE LIKELY TO DIE."
He agreed; I got the drug (along w/tocilizumab).
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He agreed; I got the drug (along w/tocilizumab).
#coronavirus #COVID19 #CoronaBoy #LatsCovid19Journal
Thanks! I must say, though, that an extended hospital stay isn’t consistent with my normal regimen. I haven’t moisturized in 17 days - or, for that matter, showered/shaved! Can’t wait to get home, clean up. #coronavirus #COVID19 #coronaboy #LatsCovid19Journal
I asked a nurse here if there was a shower I could use. Her candor was great: “Yes, but... you’re so close to discharge, wouldn’t be you rather take a nice hot bath when you get home?” #coronavirus #COVID19 #coronaboy #LatsCovid19Journal #HospitalLife
She then offered me a bunch of wipes so I could sponge myself down that way, which I gratefully accepted. #coronavirus #COVID19 #coronaboy #LatsCovid19Journal #HospitalLife
A very interesting @WSJ piece on ventilator guidance here at @NYULangone. Here are my thoughts.
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#CoronavirusUSA #Coronavirus #CoronaBoy #Covid19 #Covid_19
1. I don't see Robert Femia's email as nefarious; he's just saying, "Luckily we don't have to ration ventilators yet - but if we do, front-line doctors should know that leadership has their back."
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#CoronavirusUSA #Coronavirus #CoronaBoy #Covid19 #Covid_19
2. Ignoring this issue won't make it go away; it's already looming, and Femia acknowledges its complexity and moral seriousness. See this @nytopinion piece by @JenSeniorNY: nyti.ms/3aCiz6w
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#CoronavirusUSA #Coronavirus #CoronaBoy #Covid19 #Covid_19
Achievement unlocked: no longer on oxygen! We tapered it down gradually after I was extubated last week, and last night while I was asleep they cut it off entirely. #coronavirus #COVID19 #CoronaBoy
My blood oxygen has remained in the 90s throughout the taper and even after the shutoff - so discharge before the end of this week looks like a very realistic possibility, per my nurse this morning. #coronavirus #covid19 #CoronaBoy
I’ll be discussing all this later today with my doctors/care team at @nyulangone and deferring to their professional judgment. I also want to hear from them about the degree to which I might still be contagious. #coronavirus #COVID19 #CoronaBoy
I’m generally more intellectual, a “head” over “heart” sort of person - but these days I exhibit so much emotional lability, and the most random things will bring me to tears or the brink thereof (and I actually don’t mind). #coronavirus #COVID19 #CoronaBoy
My morning cry for today was prompted by this piece by @katemshepherd for @washingtonpost - specifically, the mention of “A Bushel & A Peck,” which my husband Zach’s mom always sings to our son: wapo.st/3aypT39 - #coronavirus #COVID19 #CoronaBoy
I’ve tried to stress the danger that #coronavirus can pose to relatively young and healthy people - but ALL the #COVID19 stories break my heart, including this one involving 80-somethings married 52 years who died within hours of each other.
The latest installment in #LatsCovid19Journal by yours truly, @DavidLat aka #CoronaBoy:
"How To Be A Good Patient."
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"How To Be A Good Patient."
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I'll use this acronym (partly because I could really use some Percocet right now for rib-cage pain from my cough): PERCOS.
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#LatsCovid19Journal #Coronavirus #CoronaVirus2020 #healthcare #HealthcareHeroes #Covid19 #Covid_19
"P" stands for "Positive." It's a cliche, but true: much of life comes down to your attitude. You can be positive (or at least stoic), or you can complain constantly. What's better?
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#Coronavirus #Cornavirus2020 #Covid19 #Covid_19 #LatsCovid19Journal
