Jared 'PiG' Krensel

My sense of taste was fucked. All I could taste was salt, so everything I forced down tasted awful. Still no appetite. It took five days after I left the ICU for my fever to break and stay gone. They started reducing my oxygen. By the 20th I was off the oxygen completely. 13/21

Friday night (the 22nd, I finally got to go home. I went home with an inhaler, 2 weeks of lovenox shots, and orders to quarantine for at least two weeks. I took my first shower in two weeks. By the time I was done washing my hair I was too weak to stand up any more. 14/ 21

Like I mentioned, I'm terrified of needles. But I'm terrified of having a stroke even more, so for 2 weeks every night I gathered a fistfull of my belly meat and jabbed myself with that fucking needle to keep my own blood from killing me. I hated it every single time. 15/21

It took another week for my appetite to come back. I lost 20lbs. I tested positive for Covid again a week after my hospital stay. It took another week and a half before I tested negative. 16/21

So let's review: I got Covid. I got pneumonia. I lost 20lbs. 5 hours in the ER. 36 hours in SICU. Another 7 days in the hospital (9.5 total). I missed 5 weeks of work. I could have DIED. 17/21

Oh, and the best part? I'm still not recovered. I'm only working part-time. A six hour shift takes so much out of me that I have no energy for anything when I get home. I don't have enough stamina to mow my own lawn in a reasonable time frame. 18/21

So don't fucking tell me "It's just a flu." Flu makes healthy, young men like me WISH they were dead but it doesn't put them in intensive care! Don't tell me that lockdowns are an overreaction, or that it only kills unhealthy people! 19/ 21

That is a goddamn lie. Covid kills, and it has the capacity to fuck you up even if it doesn't kill you. Whether you're young, old, fat, thin, what the fuck ever. Start taking this shit seriously. 20/21