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along with a Canadian kid who was going through a similar situation

Is this a thing? Taking your kid and abandoning them with relatives?

Also, did your grandparent know this was your father's plan?

Edit: TIL this is totally a thing! Thank you all for sharing your stories!!

I always thought one of the big plot holes in Harry Potter was that the Dursleys used boarding school as a cover for Harry's absence from their home. In my mind only the richest kids got sent to boarding school, not middle class kids. Wow was I wrong! These stories are amazing/crazy!

Not OP, but I'm a Physical therapist is a level one trauma center in a city/state that did a good job of flattening the curve. I see patients who required hospitalization at every step of their recovery. 3 young guys come to mind.

1. Early 30s, works full time, has wife and kids. Literally no past medical history. Prolonged intubated that eventually lead to extreme muscle wasting, and what presented as a full body motor weakness. He eventually developed sepsis and has had multiple organ issues. He couldn't walk, couldn't swallow. I think was in the hospital a total of about 30 days and has been on our rehab double that. And he can still barely walk. While he will recover he will likely always have long term damage.

2. Another young guy with a presentation that in addition to being on a ventilator for weeks, then having a trach, he also had more neuro presentation. I've read other countries are literally giving this presentation a guillian barre diagnosis, and that's honestly how it presented. Extreme weakness of the trunk muscles, I literally have to hold his head up when we try to sit up. He can't control his legs or arms, cannot coordinate movement, can't brush his hair, wash his face because his motor coordination is so poor. He got sick in early May and is just now in our step down unit. He won't get be strong enough to go to rehab for some time, he'll end up in a long term care hospital.

3. And we just had our first covid stroke. I think he was in his 40s, basic covid case. Not in the ICU at all. But during evaluation he presented like a classic MCA stroke. Imaging shows diffuse strokes all through his brain. He's also got a long road ahead, but will likely walk again. Not sure if he'll ever recover motor function of his hand. But we caught it immediately, so he did get great medical interventions, so should recover well.

And now, we are starting to see recovered covid patients come back. They test negative, but they still can't breathe and their x-rays look just as horrible as they did when the disease was active in them. I've only seen older people with this new fibrosis pneumonia, but I can only imagine all those Young folks without symptoms might actually be developing fibrosis that will haunt them in years to come.

Wear a fucking mask.

Yes, exactly. They develop additional issues, some of which are due to the virus (hypercoagulation, possibly this GB presentation, I read something yesterday about it being a true GB caused by the body's immune system attaching it's own nerve cells, or maybe it's just nerve death due to ICU accquired weakness?) some are more sequelae from the hosptalization (pressure sores, sepsis, ICU weakness, ICU delirium). But it's crazy to go into a chart review that's several days old, reading this rapid decline of a person, and in their non-hospital diagnosis there's nothing listed.

As for the stroke patient, I don't think he had anything of note, other than being 40s and male, maybe HTN. But not specific Smoker/drug use that we usually see when we have a young stroke. I think he was literally just there for observation, not even admitted.

The real trends I'm seeing are two things: 1. male. Very few young women end up with all these additional problems. 2. And lots of our longer hospitalizations include the first 2 guys I've mentioned, were laborers. Construction, painting, etc. We have wondered if their years breathing in construction sites has pre weakened their lungs, allowing the virus a better foothold, so to speak.

I'd love to piggy back on this question as well:

I believe that healing involves much more than medicine. Earlier you (Captain Gray) said that the scariest part was the anxiety of waiting for treatments. My question is: have you received holistic care during your treatments? If so what are some of the best examples of health care professionals going beyond their typical roll to help ease your anxiety?

I'm just so angry. Like not day to day, minute to minute. But then I see other countries reopened, people getting to see their friends, I'm just so furious at our leadership.