The Russo's

Josh was sent home with an oxygen concentrator and portable tanks. It was hard for him to sit and rest at first, but that's what he needed to do. He took walks outside, sat in the sun, did crossword puzzles and caught up with people on the phone. Camo became very attached to Josh and sat with him all the time January 6th was his first follow up appointment with Dr. Padgett. His lungs sounded good and was pulling in good air. Continue to rest, hydrate and stay on oxygen to heal his lungs. Sitting his oxygen was about 95 and when he moved around it would drop.  We ate lunch with Jen and Cadie before the appointment. Josh had been craving sushi.  January 7th around 3:00 am he started having horrible joint pain in his knees and ankles. We tried pain meds, muscle relaxer and soaking in the tub. It finally let up by 10:00 a.m. and then started again. He called his doctor from the hospital and she said joint pain was common from the Covid and could last a few days. Dr. Padgett prescr...

 Josh got home on Tuesday, December 15th and wasn't feeling well. His chest was heavy and his body ached. He went to bed early and was running fever around 11 pm with the shakes. The next morning he had a terrible headache. We figured it may be Covid. It felt a lot like the flu to him. He went to get tested on the 17th at Lake After Hours and he was told it was too soon to test. He went back on Saturday, the 19th and tested positive. He wasn't examined or given anything. He was told to treat his symptoms at home. We quarantined him in the bedroom and he was taking all the supplements for immunity that was recommended for Covid. He continued to run low grade fever and more symptoms came like nausea and diarrhea. On December 22nd , we reached out to his primary doctor because Josh was not getting any better. They called in a Z Pak, steroid and antihistamine. He was coughing up blood that night on December 23rd. The next morning he continued to cough up blood and had trouble breat...