Covid in 70s

[Gentlereassurance]

I'm just looking for some re assurance.

My mum is 70 and fit and healthy but every cold usually requires anti bs as she gets a chest infection . She has tested positive today.

I'm trying to not get anxious but feeling really worried.

Currently she just feels like she has a cold. She's double jabbed due a booster soon.

I live an hour away and dad is with her ( currently testing negative )

I have ordered her a oximeter to be delivered tomorrow.

Any reassurance?

My 86 year old aunt, who has asthma and type 2 diabetes, caught covid early this year just 6 days after her first jab. She is still with us.

My mum had it last year. She was 75 at the time. Obviously she hadn't had a vaccine then. She had mild cold symptoms for a few days.

Father-in-law had it earlier this year. He is 85. He won't have the vaccine. He had a "bad cold" for a week or so.

My 75 year old aunt had it a couple of months ago

She is asthmatic, diabetic and had a mild heart attack earlier this year

She was ill for about 4 weeks as she got a chest infection on the back of Covid, but standard cold remedy, expectorant cough meds were enough to help with Covid then anti bs for chest infection

She is fine now, very glad she was double jabbed
Hope your Mum feels better soon

Hi,

I worked in a nursing home during the second wave of covid in January. 90% of the residents caught covid and we lost 25% of them. Those we lost were in their nineties and were assessed to be in their last six months of life by their GPs. This was pre vaccine roll out.

Many of those who had it asympotomatically or mildly were aged 65-100. Many with comorbidities which ostensibly put them at grave risk.

The risk factors are a blunt instrument as nobody as yet, understandably has ascertained the individual risk factors with any precision.

I hope your mum has a mild case and recovers well. The odds are very much in her favour and she is vaccinated. I can understand how worried you must be. for you.

Thank you so much all. This is really reassuring.

My uncle is 70 & currently has covid. He’s fine, says it’s like a bad cold. Cough is annoying. He’s on day 9.

And an amazing story. My friends Nana is 91. She ended up on a ventilator. Came off it after 5/6 days. She spent some time recovering & is now home! Still a bit shakey but doing really well! I was astonished!

Not Covid related, but has your mum had the pneumonia vaccine if she is prone to chest infections? Just asking because rollout seems to be a bit patchy.

@Incognito22333

Not Covid related, but has your mum had the pneumonia vaccine if she is prone to chest infections? Just asking because rollout seems to be a bit patchy.

No I don't even think she's been offered it! I will certainly mention this to her

@Bobholll

My uncle is 70 & currently has covid. He’s fine, says it’s like a bad cold. Cough is annoying. He’s on day 9.

And an amazing story. My friends Nana is 91. She ended up on a ventilator. Came off it after 5/6 days. She spent some time recovering & is now home! Still a bit shakey but doing really well! I was astonished!

Thank you so much for this

How’s your mum doing now? I am up late and looking for such threads as my mum, 78 and double vaccinated, has just tested positive too. She had very bad cold symptoms and is shivery and achey. Doesn’t seem to have a temp. Has a cough but not bad yet. Am really worried. Positive test was only an antigen but going to try to do a PCR tomorrow.

I'm not sure what day today counts as but mum is good! No smell or taste but still presenting mainly like a really bad cold with what she says in a woolly head. She spent Tuesday in bed but other than that is up and pottering around at home today she sounded really chipper and oxygen levels are good on the oximeter thing .

Sending lots of good thoughts for your mum and you as it's so worrying x