In March 2020, the COVID-19 RECOVERY trial set out to find existing drugs that would work on this new disease. The results saved millions of lives – here’s the story of just one of them.
My experience or my memories of early days of covert 19 was feeling as though i had a heavy mindfully feeling very lethargic and then i started to develop the breathing problems john was starting to go really downhill and he wasn’t aware that he was going downhill at all and i remember my daughter phoning us on the thursday night and i said this is terrible it’s
As if i’m watching them down in front of me and there’s nothing i can do the doctor took one look at me when i went into the assessment center and said i’ll get your details in a couple of minutes i’m phoning an ambulance for you right now i was to hand you on a phone on his way out because it would be his only way of communicating with me i found out about the
Recovery trial the night that john had get taken into hospital because john had sent me a text about quarter to five at night saying he was going on a ventilator and he said a doctor will be in touch with you between half 11 and 25 to 12 that night and a lovely doctor coach chris mcgivern called me and he told me that john was intensive care and that he was
Really really ill and his lungs were in a bad bad way and he was on a ventilator but john wasn’t breathing at all it was machine it was doing all the raining did i think that john would be interested in a recovery trial this trial was just starting and they were only offering it to people who were seriously seriously ill i thought they should go ahead with
It a lovely doctor called suzanne she called there was like five drugs and there was a placebo it was potluck with the press of a key on the computer as of what drug john would get and got a drug that was the same age as me he got the dexter before his one and he was very lucky another medic called me john was starting to show signs of trying to initiate
Breathing so that was like quite rapid after getting this drug from there it just progressed that he got better the impact we’re aware of from the recovery trial the first year after the thing had kicked off i think at that time they indicated there was about a million lives have been saved if the trials hadn’t happened then we wouldn’t know what works it was
Difficult so during all the lockdown because we couldn’t see her family and her daughter lives down south last year we had her first grandson so yeah i’d say it’s been quite a change and i think his mother’s realizing the difference between girls
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Dexamethasone saved my life: The RECOVERY trial, two years on By UK Research and Innovation
