The Uncertainty of a Diagnosis of COVID

For three weeks, they were treating him as though he had COVID because nothing else made sense. And so feeling that he might die at the hands of an unknown disease just felt like torture. I remember one of the ICU pulmonologists telling me that some people just have undefined lung disease or lung injury and they never figure out what that is. So when he was finally diagnosed, which actually was a week after he was sedated,. He didn't know his diagnosis until he eventually was brought out of his coma.

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