My parents live a few hours so not easy to pop over. She is under the dr but hard to understand from said parents how they are engaging with the GP. Ds had a chest infection which she often has but this ha floored her. Seems dr would have liked to hospitalise her at the time but didn’t do a covid test. I told them to get LFTs but they came back negative. Dr gave her an antibiotic in the beginning but she threw it up asking for her standard penicillin type stuff. She was told to come off pain meds for rheumatoid arthritis which won’t be helping. She had an X-ray yesterday but will take 10 days for the results. She will be in extreme pain and couldn’t walk to X-ray. Anyway after 3 weeks she says she’s still not better, eyes are sensitive to light, tired all the time, not eating (have told her she needs to eat or won’t get strength back). Cough is better than it was and she is double vaxxed. I’ve suggested they get a proper PCR done for covid but might be too late to pick up mid it was that. She’s asking me what to do but sounds like they should do a swab and check and see if needs a different type of antibiotic. I’m not sure why dr told her to come off pain meds which won’t be helping. It’s hard to get any sense from her as she’s also quite confused. She’s 74. I’m wondering if she has pneumonia but as i say live a few hours away and I haven’t spoken to her dr. I know drs go by what patient wants rather than what might be actually a more appropriate treatment for them