“I never thought at 21 I would be on the verge of death,” he said.
At first, the infection seemed just like the flu like a cold, he said, and the symptoms lasted a few days.
“About a quarter of a week, two weeks later, I started to feel bad,” he said.
Rollyson said he was dealing with a 103.4-degree fever and doctors performed several tests, including X-rays of the breast and CT scan to find the root of the problem. Everything clearly came back, he says, but within 48 hours, Rollyson was in the ICU.
“That’s when everything started to close,” he said. “In two days, my body fell off quickly.”
The young man’s harrowing experience illustrates a point that health experts have made when it comes to coronavirus in young groups of people. Although many people seem to go without symptoms, there is still no telling how each individual will react to the virus.
Rollyson said doctors told him his body was going into hyperactive mode, and tried to fight the coronavirus before he had heart failure, acute respiratory failure and severe sepsis. Weeks after his recovery, Rollyson’s heartbeat is still being tested and he is still on medication for his blood pressure. He says doctors have told him that the medication will probably last for at least a year.
“It took my life almost a month ago,” he said. “That it’s not something to play with. Just be safe, wear your masks, wash your hands.”
“I can not encourage it enough.”
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