A Llangollen amateur stage performer has told of her frightening brush with Covid which led to her being rushed to hospital and treated for a suspected heart attack.
Naomi Riley, who has appeared in productions for Llangollen Operatic Society and the Twenty Club, reveals what she went through in a post on Facebook, which has already attracted over 30 sympathetic comments since going up in the early hours of this morning (Tuesday).
And she says she took to social media to let people
know that the virus at the centre of the pandemic is something that people still need
to be aware of.
She writes: “I'd like to have a little catch up about Covid, mainly because it's been a little too close to home this last week, and it's playing on my mind.
“So, Mark [husband] and I have had it. It started last Sunday morning /afternoon respectively with both of us presenting with just a sore throat, nothing major.
“By Monday afternoon, I can only describe it as all my pipework felt sore from up into my sinuses to down into my chest.
“By Tuesday, we were feeling a little bit out of it as our temperatures started to spike. Rounds of meds every four hours began.
“By Wednesday morning, Mark's temp was above 39, with mine not far behind. We were aching all over and my chest felt tight and heavy.
“Thurs afternoon, I was barely mobile, we both had
streaming colds.
“Thurs evening I was taken to A&E after collapsing with crushing chest pains and was treated for a suspected heart attack!
“I'd honestly thought at first it was just trapped
wind, but it just got worse and more intense, radiating through my chest from
front to back, up into my neck... then I collapsed.
“Mark was a hero and got me to hospital despite being ill himself.
“I was triaged in no time. Oxygen levels were fine, blood pressure, fine, ECG, bloods.... no idea. My chest was still heavy, and breathing felt like hard work, honestly, but I clearly wasn't dying so took a seat, all masked up, and waited.
“Over the next few hours of waiting to see a Dr the pain in my chest slowly eased to nothing. Eventually, another ECG was taken and more blood pressure tests - my blood pressure appeared to be dropping - and suddenly I'm being moved to resus, no longer allowed to walk.
“Was a scarily surreal few hours once I was plumbed
in and all the tests were being done.
"The blood tests confirmed I had Covid.
“And then all the other tests fortunately determined that no permanent damage was done to my heart - however... what the hell???
“At no point in my life has flu or even Covid the first time round ever caused me to suffer anything like a heart attack.
“It may be mutated; weakened from the original strain, but please, just be mindful. The symptoms started out as nothing, but became something very nasty, very quickly for me. And Mark's gone through the ringer despite being up to date with all his jabs due to being in a high risk category.
“We're finally coming out the other side of it now.
“Please
take care folks, and stay well xx”
Later, Naomi said the purpose of her post was: “Not to scare so much as remind people that it's not something to get blasé about and to still be aware of, that these were the symptoms and how it progressed as we experienced it.
“I know, I'd had it in the back of my mind that it's just like the flu nowadays, and though in some respects that's true, in a way that was quite terrifying for me, that wasn't true at all.”
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