She used to do 10 hour shifts, no problem. Now she can’t work more than five or six hours before she’s asleep on her feet. Just bone tired.
My 19 year old younger sister contracted it and she doesn’t have any of the health issues, yet it was still terrifying to see. Thankfully, she didn’t have to be hospitalized. She toughed it out at home. She would call me when she was getting up in the morning just to let me know that she’d made it through the night.
She’d get winded getting out of bed. She would stop and rest for 20 minutes simply from sitting up on the edge of her bed. It was about six or seven weeks before from the first cough until she was cleared to go back to work. It definitely wasn’t anywhere nearly as severe as it could have been, but she’s still dealing with the after effects of it today. She gets tired really easily now. She works in retail, she used to do 10 hour shifts, no problem. Now she can’t work more than like five or six hours before she’s asleep on her feet. Just bone tired.