{"id":15698,"date":"2021-07-01T19:54:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T23:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anykeymusic.com\/membership\/?p=15698"},"modified":"2025-12-25T17:26:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T22:26:18","slug":"my-covid-19-virus-update-06-25-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anykeymusic.com\/membership\/2021\/07\/01\/my-covid-19-virus-update-06-25-21\/","title":{"rendered":"My 2021 COVID-19 VIRUS \u2013 UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"15703\" data-init-width=\"600\" data-init-height=\"800\" title=\"20210627_124718\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/anykeymusic.com\/membership\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210627_124718-scaled-e1625182245351.jpg\" data-width=\"284\" data-height=\"378\" width=\"284\" height=\"378\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Hi AKMS Family,<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Many of you have seen or heard through my emails of the health challenges that visited my home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Over a Month ago, I had to cancel a Webinar in order to take care of my wife as she wasn&#8217;t feeling well and bring her to the hospital. It wasn&#8217;t COVID-19 or anything like that. Unfortunately, she was adamant that she did not want to go. But fortunately, she felt better that same night and we didn&#8217;t need to go.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Also a Month before, my mother in law came over on a weekend to cook us a special home-cooked meal. You can&#8217;t beat those meals from a mother.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Usually, she doesn&#8217;t leave her home, but if she does, she&#8217;s always fully covered with a mask, shield and any other thing that could protect her from COVID-19.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">So she cooked the meal and eventually left after a few hours.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The next day, she was feeling nausea, throwing up and having a hard time breathing. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">She is an independent 70+ year hold and decided to drive herself to the hospital. When they did a COVID-19 test, they found that she was COVID-19 Positive.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">A few weeks later, I started having some chest pain. Eventually the pain climaxed and it really felt like someone hit me with a bat. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Walking and even sleeping was hard. I stayed with the pain and tried to function as normal and do the Webinars and Online teaching that I regularly do.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Long story short, the pain was too much for me to think; it became unbearable. So I cancelled another week of sessions and the scheduled AKMS Member&#8217;s Webinar again. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">In fact, I was in soo much pain that it took me 20min to type a 4 sentence Cancellation email for the AKMS Member&#8217;s Webinar.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">That night was the hardest to sleep for me &#8230;. Long story short, that next day the ambulance came and rushed me to the hospital on Friday, June 25<sup>th<\/sup>\/21.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"15702\" data-init-width=\"600\" data-init-height=\"800\" title=\"20210629_115254\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/anykeymusic.com\/membership\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210629_115254-scaled-e1625182321365.jpg\" data-width=\"582\" data-height=\"776\" width=\"582\" height=\"776\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">There were soo many struggles caused by this \u201cunknown to me\u201d condition. Simple things like walking or trying to sit down where painful tasks that I dreaded.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">So they ended up testing and diagnosing me as COVID-19 positive. They admitted me and that&#8217;s when my journey to recovery began.I believe in the God of the bible and I believe in the power of prayer. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">I know that I had a lot of people and a lot of you praying and\/or sending your positive thoughts to my wife and I.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">I don&#8217;t have the exact medical jargan, but the pain was cased by a blood clot that had developed around my lungs. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">It produced something called a \u201cPulmonary Embolism\u201d. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">I also developed Pneumonia around that same clotted area, which they said was caused by the COVID-19 virus.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">From what I understand from the doctors, I didn&#8217;t have to be started on steroids because I wasn&#8217;t hypoxic. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Therefore, I didn&#8217;t need specific treatment for my COVID-19 because I was never hypoxic. (I will definitely have to look that one up.).<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong>So after 5 Days of Pain, Diagnosis, Treatment and Prayer, I&#8217;m happy to report<\/strong><strong> that I was discharged<\/strong><strong> and let go from the hospital<\/strong> and am home recovering; with some medication of course. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">But I can say that every day, something in my body is improving and getting stronger.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">They also placed a quarantine restriction that I have to be isolated from the public; which includes my Wife and Daughter, for 14 Days. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">That part is hard as I was so looking forward to being with them. But those days will go by.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">So I Thank God for His faithfulness and Thank you all for your prayers and support.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">I look forward to getting back to when I can actively help you all with your musical goals.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">But for now, I know you understand that I need to recover.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Thank you again!!<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">PS. But please remember my Mother in Law in your prayers as she&#8217;s still battling this virus. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(22, 100, 235);\">[UPDATE] Unfortunately, my mother in law passed away on July 6th\/2021. &nbsp;Thank you all for your prayers]<\/span><\/strong>Love Robert<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">(you can&#8217;t find me on that bed anymore.)<\/span><span><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"15701\" data-init-width=\"600\" data-init-height=\"800\" title=\"20210629_120332\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/anykeymusic.com\/membership\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210629_120332-scaled-e1625182344539.jpg\" data-width=\"542\" data-height=\"723\" width=\"542\" height=\"723\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi AKMS Family,Many of you have seen or heard through my emails of the health challenges that visited my home. Over a Month ago, I had to cancel a Webinar in order to take care of my wife as she wasn&#8217;t feeling well and bring her to the hospital. It wasn&#8217;t COVID-19 or anything like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wi_page_shortcodes":[],"tve_updated_post":"<div class=\"thrv_wrapper thrv-columns\" style=\"--tcb-col-el-width:625;\"><div class=\"tcb-flex-row v-2 tcb--cols--2\"><div class=\"tcb-flex-col\" data-css=\"tve-u-17a646fd830\" style=\"\"><div class=\"tcb-col\"><div class=\"thrv_wrapper tve_image_caption\" data-css=\"tve-u-17a646c7e1c\"><span class=\"tve_image_frame\"><img class=\"tve_image wp-image-15703\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"15703\" data-init-width=\"600\" data-init-height=\"800\" title=\"20210627_124718\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/anykeymusic.com\/membership\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210627_124718-scaled-e1625182245351.jpg\" data-width=\"284\" data-height=\"378\" width=\"284\" height=\"378\"><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tcb-flex-col\"><div class=\"tcb-col\"><div class=\"thrv_wrapper thrv_text_element\">\t<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\" data-css=\"tve-u-17a646da57b\">Hi AKMS Family,<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\" data-css=\"tve-u-17a646da57d\"><br><br>Many of you have seen or heard through my emails of the health challenges that visited my home.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\" data-css=\"tve-u-17a646da580\">Over a Month ago, I had to cancel a Webinar in order to take care of my wife as she wasn't feeling well and bring her to the hospital. It wasn't COVID-19 or anything like that. Unfortunately, she was adamant that she did not want to go. But fortunately, she felt better that same night and we didn't need to go.<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"thrv_wrapper thrv_text_element\">\t<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\" data-css=\"tve-u-17a646fd028\">Also a Month before, my mother in law came over on a weekend to cook us a special home-cooked meal. You can't beat those meals from a mother.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\" data-css=\"tve-u-17a646fd02a\"><\/span><span data-css=\"tve-u-17a646fd02a\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><\/span><br><span data-css=\"tve-u-17a646fd02a\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><br>Usually, she doesn't leave her home, but if she does, she's always fully covered with a mask, shield and any other thing that could protect her from COVID-19.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\" data-css=\"tve-u-17a646fd02d\"><\/span><br><span data-css=\"tve-u-17a646fd02d\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><\/span><br><span data-css=\"tve-u-17a646fd02d\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\">So she cooked the meal and eventually left after a few hours.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\" data-css=\"tve-u-17a646fd030\"><\/span><br><span data-css=\"tve-u-17a646fd030\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><\/span><br><span data-css=\"tve-u-17a646fd030\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The next day, she was feeling nausea, throwing up and having a hard time breathing. <\/span><br><span data-css=\"tve-u-17a646fd030\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><\/span><br><span data-css=\"tve-u-17a646fd030\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\">She is an independent 70+ year hold and decided to drive herself to the hospital. When they did a COVID-19 test, they found that she was COVID-19 Positive.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\" data-css=\"tve-u-17a646fd032\"><\/span><br><span data-css=\"tve-u-17a646fd032\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><\/span><br><span data-css=\"tve-u-17a646fd032\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\">A few weeks later, I started having some chest pain. Eventually the pain climaxed and it really felt like someone hit me with a bat. <\/span><br><span data-css=\"tve-u-17a646fd032\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><\/span><br><span data-css=\"tve-u-17a646fd032\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Walking and even sleeping was hard. I stayed with the pain and tried to function as normal and do the Webinars and Online teaching that I regularly do.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\" data-css=\"tve-u-17a646fd035\"><\/span><br><span data-css=\"tve-u-17a646fd035\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><\/span><br><span data-css=\"tve-u-17a646fd035\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Long story short, the pain was too much for me to think; it became unbearable. So I cancelled another week of sessions and the scheduled AKMS Member's Webinar again. <\/span><br><span data-css=\"tve-u-17a646fd035\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><\/span><br><span data-css=\"tve-u-17a646fd035\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\">In fact, I was in soo much pain that it took me 20min to type a 4 sentence Cancellation email for the AKMS Member's Webinar.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\" data-css=\"tve-u-17a646fd037\"><\/span><br><span data-css=\"tve-u-17a646fd037\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><\/span><br><span data-css=\"tve-u-17a646fd037\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\">That night was the hardest to sleep for me .... Long story short, that next day the ambulance came and rushed me to the hospital on Friday, June 25<sup>th<\/sup>\/21.<\/span><\/p><\/div><div class=\"thrv_wrapper thrv_contentbox_shortcode thrv-content-box tve-elem-default-pad\" style=\"\" data-css=\"tve-u-17a647324b2\">\n\t<div class=\"tve-content-box-background\"><\/div>\n\t<div class=\"tve-cb\"><div class=\"thrv_wrapper tve_image_caption\" data-css=\"tve-u-17a64722477\"><span class=\"tve_image_frame\"><img class=\"tve_image wp-image-15702\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"15702\" data-init-width=\"600\" data-init-height=\"800\" title=\"20210629_115254\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/anykeymusic.com\/membership\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210629_115254-scaled-e1625182321365.jpg\" data-width=\"582\" data-height=\"776\" width=\"582\" height=\"776\"><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"thrv_wrapper thrv_text_element\">\t<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\" data-css=\"tve-u-17a64754741\">There were soo many struggles caused by this \u201cunknown to me\u201d condition. Simple things like walking or trying to sit down where painful tasks that I dreaded.<\/span><br><br><span data-css=\"tve-u-17a64754744\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\">So they ended up testing and diagnosing me as COVID-19 positive. They admitted me and that's when my journey to recovery began.<br><br>I believe in the God of the bible and I believe in the power of prayer. <\/span><br><br><span data-css=\"tve-u-17a64754744\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\">I know that I had a lot of people and a lot of you praying and\/or sending your positive thoughts to my wife and I.<\/span><br><br><span data-css=\"tve-u-17a64754747\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\">I don't have the exact medical jargan, but the pain was cased by a blood clot that had developed around my lungs. <\/span><br><br><span data-css=\"tve-u-17a64754747\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\">It produced something called a \u201cPulmonary Embolism\u201d. <\/span><br><br><span data-css=\"tve-u-17a64754747\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\">I also developed Pneumonia around that same clotted area, which they said was caused by the COVID-19 virus.<\/span><br><br><span data-css=\"tve-u-17a64754749\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\">From what I understand from the doctors, I didn't have to be started on steroids because I wasn't hypoxic. <\/span><br><br><span data-css=\"tve-u-17a64754749\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Therefore, I didn't need specific treatment for my COVID-19 because I was never hypoxic. (I will definitely have to look that one up.).<\/span><br><br><span data-css=\"tve-u-17a6475474c\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong>So after 5 Days of Pain, Diagnosis, Treatment and Prayer, I'm happy to report<\/strong><strong> that I was discharged<\/strong><strong> and let go from the hospital<\/strong> and am home recovering; with some medication of course. <br><\/span><\/p><\/div><div class=\"thrv_wrapper thrv_text_element\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\" data-css=\"tve-u-17a6478d0f0\" class=\"\">But I can say that every day, something in my body is improving and getting stronger.<\/span><br class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><span data-css=\"tve-u-17ab5a35502\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\" class=\"\">They also placed a quarantine restriction that I have to be isolated from the public; which includes my Wife and Daughter, for 14 Days. <\/span><br class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><span data-css=\"tve-u-17a6478d0f3\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\" class=\"\">That part is hard as I was so looking forward to being with them. But those days will go by.<\/span><br class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><span data-css=\"tve-u-17a6478d0f6\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\" class=\"\">So I Thank God for His faithfulness and Thank you all for your prayers and support.<\/span><br class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><span data-css=\"tve-u-17ab5a35505\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\" class=\"\">I look forward to getting back to when I can actively help you all with your musical goals.<\/span><br class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><span data-css=\"tve-u-17a6478d0f8\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\" class=\"\">But for now, I know you understand that I need to recover.<\/span><br class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><span data-css=\"tve-u-17a6478d0f9\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\" class=\"\">Thank you again!!<\/span><br class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><span class=\"\" data-css=\"tve-u-17ab5a35509\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\">PS. But please remember my Mother in Law in your prayers as she's still battling this virus. <\/span><br><span class=\"\" data-css=\"tve-u-17ab5a3550a\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(22, 100, 235);\" data-css=\"tve-u-17ab5a3550c\">[UPDATE] Unfortunately, my mother in law passed away on July 6th\/2021. &nbsp;Thank you all for your prayers]<\/span><\/strong><br><br>Love Robert<\/span><br class=\"\"><span data-css=\"tve-u-17a6478d0fb\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\" class=\"\">(you can't find me on that bed anymore.)<\/span><\/div><div class=\"thrv_wrapper thrv_contentbox_shortcode thrv-content-box tve-elem-default-pad\" style=\"\" data-css=\"tve-u-17a647cfdb0\">\n\t<div class=\"tve-content-box-background\"><\/div>\n\t<div class=\"tve-cb\"><div class=\"thrv_wrapper tve_image_caption\" data-css=\"tve-u-17a647c9d27\"><span class=\"tve_image_frame\"><img class=\"tve_image wp-image-15701\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"15701\" data-init-width=\"600\" data-init-height=\"800\" title=\"20210629_120332\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/anykeymusic.com\/membership\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210629_120332-scaled-e1625182344539.jpg\" data-width=\"542\" data-height=\"723\" width=\"542\" height=\"723\"><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>","tve_custom_css":"@media (min-width: 300px){[data-css=\"tve-u-17a646c7e1c\"] { width: 600px; 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