LA Times columnist and Around the Horn regular Bill Plaschke says he has been “scared out of [my] mind” since being diagnosed with Covid-19. In his latest column for The Times, he writes that it isn’t just a fear of the illness and what it might do to him, but the hallucinatory dreams caused by his fevers that have wreaked emotional havoc.
“I would fall asleep in a chair and wake up terrified from a hallucinatory dream where I was chased through a playground by old women with giant heads,” he writes. “During phone calls I would get confused and just stop talking. I would begin crying for no reason.”
Plashcke has been dealing with fevers topping out at over 102 degrees. He also detailed the respiratory issues that have come along with the coronavirus.
“My chest felt like LeBron James was sitting on it. My fatigue made it feel as if I was dressed in the chains of Jacob Marley’s ghost. I coughed so hard it felt like I broke a rib.”
He noted that there is nothing more scary that having a potentially deadly virus and knowing there is no cure. Bill Plaschke is certainly not the first in the sports media to deal with Covid-19, but he has been amongst the most open in discussing the physical and emotional tolls the disease has taken on him. Barrett Sports Media joins fans from across the world in wishing Plaschke a swift recovery.
