DH has been ill for about 10 days - seemed very tired but thought it was end of term fatigue. On Wednesday he felt crushing exhaustion and then later, a fever. Thursday night his fever was 39.6c. On Friday morning we saw an Advanced Nurse Practitioner at the surgery who thought he had flu and was going to give him antibiotics in case it had caused a secondary infection and an inhaler. I said I thought he looked quite ill, so she sent us to A&E.
At A&E he was found to have a CRP over 600, lactate of 6, but o2 sats were fairly good, so poorly, but not critical. His chest x-ray showed pneumonia in his right upper lung across the whole lobe. He was badly dehydrated as he wasn't passing urine for a while, but after IV fluids he started to pass urine again. He was admitted to hospital and has been on IV antibiotics, IV fluids, and nebulisers. His CRP has come down to 300 today.
How long is it likely to be before he's fit for work/back to normal? At the moment he's 'ok' as long as he doesn't move. Movement results in coughing fits and exhaustion.
I feel like I should know because I was a nurse, but I worked in ICU so saw the patients who were critically ill with it rather than just 'poorly', which skews the picture!