A 27-year-old coronavirus patient described his hellish experience with the virus saying it started with a kink in his neck but only got worse from there.
Cameron Karosis said in a Monday interview with CBSN Boston that what started as a neck ache quickly became a full body ache and a migraine.
“I was trying to get sleep, but the migraine was making it hard to do that,” he said in the interview. “And any time I did get sleep, my fever would make me sweat and I would wake up drenched.”
Karosis said it took him a while to get the test because his initial symptoms were not enough to qualify for a test until he had his respiratory problems.
“If you are inhaling, all of a sudden you will hit this breaking point and you start coughing and it hurts like kind of in the lower part of your lungs,” he said. “And then when you are not trying to breathe either deeply or shallowly, you just feel like there’s someone sitting on your chest.”
Karosis got a test four days later and found out he had the coronavirus. “When it really hit me, I think, was when I was in the hospital,” he said. “I started to get pretty emotional just thinking to myself, like, what if I end up being intubated or something like that? Is that going to change my life?”
The 27-year-old said the coronavirus “came back with a vengeance.” “It tricks you,” he said. “You have a week where you are doing poorly. You start to get better. Your fever dials back, and then it comes back with a vengeance, and that’s what happened to me.”
Karosis first got symptoms from the coronavirus on March 19 and it was not until Thursday before he started to finally feel better.
“I only went to the grocery store twice. When I went, I wore gloves. I disposed of them immediately. I didn’t wear the same pair all day. And still got it,” he said. “You can be healthy. You can do everything right. You can wear gloves. You can wear a mask. You can do everything right, and that doesn’t necessarily guarantee anything.”
So far, almost 600,000 people in the United States have confirmed cases of the coronavirus, along with nearly 25,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.
