This is a tale of two stories. Well, basically it's the same story but from two different perspectives. My version of the story is as the caregiver, and my friends version of the story is as the patient. I want to start off by saying, this is our story and the problems we ran into, what we should have have done in advance to be prepared, what we should have done starting day one, and the revelation God gave us through many outlets throughout the two week process. Also please keep any negative comments to yourself, this has always been a space about natural health and healing. If you have any questions after you read the whole post, I will try my best to answer. However, I do not make any claims to be a doctor and do not make any claims that the things we did should be your medical treatment. Please consult your health care professional before trying any new supplement regimen.
My Version of the Story:
It was the Saturday before Labor Day, and my sister and her family were in town and we were heading out of town for the long holiday weekend. I got a text from my friend that she was not feeling good at all! She asked me to be in prayer for her as we knew that she had been exposed to her boss who was pretty sure he was positive for C*Vi* as of the Thursday before. So I prayed for her and asked her if she had any oscillium or Mucinex-D. She did not and was going to try and ask a friend to drop her some off.
The next morning I got another message from her that she was running a fever of 101.8 and was feeling so bad. Her throat was hurting like it was on fire, and she had a massive migraine like headache. She also was still coughing really bad. At this point everyone was out of town and no one could bring her anything.
Monday, Labor Day, she finally had two friends drop her off a care basket and she ordered the oscillium and Mucinex via instacart. She still felt horrible and had a fever.
Tuesday, I returned to town, gathered some supplies I had at home and went to her house to asses the situation. Let me insert here that the Wednesday before I had see my Naturopath DR and found out that I still had the antibodies from where I had this in March 2020. I felt safe being around her and I knew that as sick as she was, she needed someone to be there to check on her and help her everyday. Not to mention I do have a BSN and have been educated on how to properly keep myself safe while caring for someone who is sick! I just knew that as sick as she was, she would need someone to actually come daily and give her the daily meds she needed in order to boost her immune system and give her body a chance to fight this virus! So, due to all the research I had been doing, paired with all the things I had always done to fight viruses in the past, I had decided on the treatment plan I felt would be best.
Here's what I gave her for starters: All items can be found here- https://linktr.ee/Alicia_trotter (under Amazon wellness)
vitamin C 1000mg https://amzn.to/3EH2j5h
vitamin D3 10,000 IU https://amzn.to/3YdSMK4
zinc/quercetin 50mg/600mg https://amzn.to/3kqPrtf
extra zinc 50mg https://amzn.to/3Y7MECK
Colloidal Silver 250ppm 1tsp https://amzn.to/3IYElFh
grapeseed extract 10 drops https://amzn.to/41vM1pt
Also this is what I began taking to protect myself:
vitamin C 1000mg
vitamin D3 10,000 IU
zinc/quercetin 50mg/600mg
colloidal silver 250ppm 1 tsp
grapeseed extract 10 drops
before I went into her home I took 2 squirts in each nostril of xlear nasal spray https://amzn.to/41uvBOg
and gargled with listerine for 30 seconds
(the nasal spray and listerine were to protect the 2 most common pathways the virus enters the body)
This was what we started with daily along with trying to keep her hydrated since she had the fever. I should also mention I took her some loose leaf mullein tea to drink because it has the ability to sooth a sore throat and also to be an expectorant.
Wednesday again the same dosages of everything and she felt basically the same. She said about 20% better. I encouraged her to try and sit up and to not be hesitant to cough, even though her throat still hurt really bad and so did her head. I noticed that she wasn't not drinking as much as I wanted her to but again, her throat hurt SO bad! At this time she had gotten a pulse oximeter and since her cough was not very productive, I told her to monitor that when she felt short of breath.
That night at 11:09pm, she called me and said her O2 was 80%!!!! I told her to call 911 and I rushed to her house. This is where frustrations began. The paramedics were in her living room talking to her when I arrived. She was on the couch but was struggling to breathe. They informed us that the policy was they could not treat her without transfer. She was of course worried about cost and didn't want to go to the ER, so we were hoping they could give her some oxygen and get her stable on room air and all would be good. That was not the case and we needed to act fast, so I decided to just take her to the ER myself. So off we went. At this time, I did have a peace come over me that everything would be ok, so we went to the local hospital closest to us. When we arrived, I parked and called for some assistance to come with a wheelchair to help her get inside. Due to the fact that she tested positive, I was not allowed to go in with her. So I stayed in my car and she texted me updates the entire 4 hours we were there. So by the time they checked her vitals her oxygen was back up tp 98, so that was a HUGE relief. They gave her Tylenol and ibuprofen for her fever and upon initial assessment of listening to her lungs they discussed a breathing treatment and possibly sending her home with a nebulizer. I was ALL for that, BUT... neither of those 2 things happened. Not sure why, but they did do a chest x-ray so apparently they didn't think she needed those treatments. She was however very dehydrated so they gave her fluids and some steroids and then discharged her with an albuterol inhaler and prescriptions for a z-pack and oral steroids. So at 4am we returned home to try and get some rest.
Thursday she felt so much better and so we went to get her prescriptions and she did some clean up around the house. After that it was obvious she had done too much and by that evening her fever was back and this time up to 103. Not sure how you get such a high fever being on an antibiotic, but that was the case, and so she stated feeling terrible again. Now keep in mind we were still doing all the vitamins and now we had added the oral steroid and antibiotic.
Friday when I got to her house I told her I was in this group chat on FB and had found out that in our town we had a PA who practiced the holistic approach and he will prescribe Ivmtn if she wanted to do a telemedicine call with him, and there was a pharmacy about an hour away that would fill it and mail it to her. So that's what she did, and he even suggested more supplements to add that we had not been aware of up until this point. One thing was he wanted to also call her in some inhaled steroids so we did in fact need that nebulizer after all. Thank GOD for Amazon! (however as I'm writing this, you will now have to wait about a week for a nebulizer to arrive from Amazon) Then we found out the steroid he was calling in for her the did not have at Kroger so we would have to wait on that to come in. Again, it kept seeming like every time we would get some hope, then there was a setback. I cannot stress enough how important it is to be prepared for anyone to get sick and have your medicine cabinet stocked! Not to mention, regardless of shot status, I truly believe as a nation we are deficient in vitamins and dehydrated. Both are precursors to a weak immune system. So taking the proper amount of vitamin D3 and drinking enough water are very simple and oh so important!
Saturday I went to the local nutrition and holistic vitamin store to get her some of the things the Dr. wanted her taking, but they were closed. Luckily we live in a fairly small town and one of my friends knew the owner and texted her to call me. She was SO kind and amazing and met me at the shop and sold me what she had. The NAC (N-aceytel-cystine) she had on order but was out of that, and had learned that the FDA was now making that where only a pharmacist could order it. OK... so I take her home the supplies I have for her and then I message a friend who I knew had some NAC and ask her where she got hers. She got it from the same lady I had just left, but was so kind to give us some of hers until we could get some. So I went to meet her and was able to get it that day! At this point her oxygen levels had started to drop again and were running in the lower 90's. Until we could get the steroids to inhale we did have a product called Briotech that she could nebulize every hour.
Sunday she was basically the same, I should add though that her sore throat and headache had gone away after the ER visit. So at this point even though her lungs were now an issue and her oxygen levels were low, seeing the small little wins were the hope we were holding on to! The nebulizer arrived and she started doing hourly treatments with the Briotech. We were supposed to be increasing her vitamin C to taking 1000mg every hour until bowel intolerance and then were supposed to back down 1000mg from that and stay at that dose daily. Honestly we got to 4200mg and that was 6 pills and she never had bowel intolerance but she was barely eating, so we just stayed there. Her vitamin D3 was to be 50,000 IU for 3 days and then lowered to 10,000 IU for the remainder. She had ordered some from her Dr she had seen a few weeks prior because she had learned she was deficient in D3, so that was arriving Monday! Again, I just felt like we were always one step behind on getting ahead of this thing!
Monday, her portable nebulizer stopped working! ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Luckily, I had ordered the same one, so I took her mine, and she got online and ordered a better one. Finally, her D3 arrived and her steroid was available to pick up! Her dad came down to visit and as so kind to pick it up for her. What we thought was going to be $318, the kind pharmacy tech was able to find a coupon for and it only ended up being $36! WOW! So she was able to get up and get to the couch and take her first breathing treatment! That was also the day that her fever finally broke! This as the day we were really hoping her Ivmtn was coming in the mail! Then we found out that somewhere in the mix the ball had been dropped and it had not been ordered. Again, a day late and a dollar short. So frustrated! This was also day 10 for her of being sick so when she talked to the Dr and found out about the mishap with the Ivmtn we asked about the antibodies. So he did some calling around and in the mean time, he felt so bad about dropping the ball he had me come to his office and get something that was very similar to the Ivmtn and have her start that immediately, and he just gave it to me for free! So after her dad left, she took a shower and then we got a call that the next county over had the antibodies and he had scheduled her an appointment for 2:00. So we printed off the prescription for that and took off. It was 30 min away and it was already 1:30. On the way there we had prayed that the Lord would go before her on this and protect her body if this was in any way harmful. Neither myself nor the Dr really knew much about this and how well they screen it, but we were on the last day that she would qualify so we were gonna give it a go. She still felt bad and had low 90's oxygen levels. We called the clinic on the way there and told them we were coming but would be a little late, and they were cool with that and said come on. BUT... when we got there, she was turned away because we were coming with a script from an out of county Dr. YES, but he called and talked to y'all and that was approved and that was why she was at the clinic first to get the in county Dr to write her a script so she could go to the hospital for the infusion. BUT... "honey, you are late to your appointment, as a new patient you should have been her 30 min early to fill out paper work." So...she was turned away, and did not receive the antibodies. The absolute ONLY way to see this disappointment was that it was NOT the Lord's will for her.
Tuesday the Ivmtn arrived and she started it right away!!! So let me now update you on what all she was taking daily:
Vitamin C 4200mg
Vitamin D3 50,000 IU for 3 days, then 10,000 IU daily after that booster dose
Zinc 100mg
Quercetin 500mg
Ivmtn 2 capsules (Rx)
baby aspirin
Budesonide inhaled 2 times a day (Rx) using this nebulizer https://amzn.to/41xpoB0
2 biocleanse (this is her magnesium) https://shop.plexusworldwide.com/aliciatrotter/product/plexus-bio-cleanse
2 probio5 (this is her probiotic) https://shop.plexusworldwide.com/aliciatrotter/product/plexus-probio-5
NAC 600mg (we had to get this at a local pharmacy)
melatonin 3-5mg https://linktr.ee/Alicia_trotter
She was also taking some thyroid natural supplements as well.
Drinking the mullein tea daily
Briotech topical skin spray you can spray on your face https://amzn.to/3ZsojZo
STAYING HYDRATED!!!! she drank tons of water but also a electrolyte drink that had no sugar or dyes
https://shop.plexusworldwide.com/aliciatrotter/product/active-lifestyle-canister-bag-pack
CALORIES!!! (this one was hard because nothing sounded good to eat. It was mainly oatmeal for her.)
Wednesday, I could tell she was feeling much better!!! Now to get her to cough big enough to get all that junk out! It was so painful because the coughing had her ribs very sore. But she used a small pillow to splint her ribs and did it anyways because she knew it was better to get all that crap out! She actually felt well enough this day that we took a little road trip and got her some Zaxbys! I was feeling so thankful because I really did notice a huge turnaround once she got the Ivmtn in her!!! Why this is being kept away from patients in the hospitals is beyond me. IT IS FDA APPROVED!!! It also won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2015! But it was hard for us to get! In our local town all the pharmacies here even the apothecary would not fill it! Yet a small apothecary an hour away did and mailed to her. I am SO thankful for them, and thankful for a Dr not afraid to prescribe it!
Thursday was again another great day! This time she got out on a field trip with me all the way to Nashville! She didn't get out and do anything just rode with me. We took the portable nebulizer and briotech with us just in case and she did have to use it once. I will say this about nebulizers... don't get the small hand held ones. They break easily. Mine also broke at the battery compartment, but luckily we duck taped that sucker back together and its still holding on. The table top ones that plug in are far more powerful and only cost about $25 more so get that one!
Friday was my last home visit with her. At this point she was strong enough and well enough to take her supplements and meds and take it from here! I wrote out what all I gave her every morning and she had already been taking care of the evening routine. What a JOY it was to see my friend recovering and getting well! Not gonna lie, it was a little scary there at times, and we were always running into obstacles and road blocks, but we persevered and she came through it! GOD IS SO GOOD!!!
So whatever you take from this story is up to you, but if I could advise you on a few things it would be this...
1) not matter what, shot or not, take vitamin C, D3, and zinc every day, and stay hydrated!
2) stock your medicine cabinet and be prepared!
3) at the first symptom, either get tested, or assume you have it and start the above protocol we did after consulting with the Dr. Early treatment is KEY!
4) find a local practitioner who is willing to prescribe Ivmtn and keep their number handy! Also find a pharmacy willing to fill in and know their number as well! DO NOT be afraid to ask for this! The sooner you start it the better you will feel!
Wishing you ALL Health & Happiness as we all figure out how to navigate theses crazy times!
Hear her version of the story here in our video as we share:
