he's suffering bad post-covid syndrome. He's been in the hospital for months, and is now home due to being out of hospital days with medicare. He can't walk, and has blood clots in both his legs. The medical profession's solution for this is to give him blood thinners, but wait,once he's out of the hospital he has to go to his regular doctor to get that. Only he is too weak to go, and insurance won't cover ground medical transport.
So I was going over our vitamin purchases for the last 2 years, and realized that he had been cutting out almost all vitamins. Maybe he thought he was saving some pennies, I don't know. (He is 70 now). I see now that I am going to have to be the one in charge of his vitamins, permanently. So I'm getting him back on vitamin C and lysine. I'm also going to try N acetyl cysteine and alpha lipoic acid together since he's the guy who won't take more than 3 grams of vitamin C. Also L-glutamine. He can't tolerate turmeric or very much vitamin B.
He is very extremely tired, has dementia symptoms now, and a lot of pain. And sharp stabbing stomach pains. No breathing problems that I can tell. He's lost a lot of muscle tissue. I had to stop the physical therapy because of the puritanical attitude. He has a stage 4 pressure ulcer due to a lot of neglect in hospitals. The infection did not go into the bone. But guess what, we are already out of antibiotics and can only get him to a doctor with great difficulty.The home health care company may have found a doctor for us.
He's been told to eat a lot of protein and avoid sugar. He really wants the sugar, so this is going to be a job. Many of the post covid syndrome people go on an anti-histamine diet, but it's just too restrictive. he has a woundvac machine, and I'm told this will be key to getting him healed.
Now I want to end this with a rant against hospitals. It's so much worse than going to the doctor, because hospitals have a power structure, and that power structure does not exist to actually help people. They go about doing what they think is best, and often don't even inform patients or family about it. He's been through 9 hospitals, including the 2 death trap nursing homes, the long term acute care hospital ( where I had to face a consortium of upper level nursing staff and a case manager), and the last one - a rehab hospital. "Eff" the american medical association doctor's union.
I want to post a couple of things about some of the supplements I'm going to try:
https://westchester.news12.com/hudson-valley-doctor-touts-lyme-disease-treatment-as-option-for-covid19-patients-42383284?fbclid=IwAR1g4ZhA8k34GzvWxkOWoW_k0UeuIS2dbEqa_hc-vccdAn0A5mYaQmylkD0
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32534175/
Thoughts appreciated, thank you.