Pink recounts her terrifying experience with COVID-19

Pink is sharing the details of the most ‘terrifying experience’ of her life in an effort to educate others on the deadly COVID-19. The popstar is appearing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show today and the interview has already been posted online. Both women filmed from their homes, where they are currently self-isolating with their families. For Pink, that means her husband Carey Hart and the couple’s two children, eight-year-old Willow and three-year-old Jameson. In today’s interview, Pink revealed that her young son was the first member of the family to show symptoms of the deadly virus.“It started with Jameson. He’s three and three-year-olds get sick all the time,” said Pink, who said that Jameson first developed a fever three days after the family began their quarantine on March 11. The singer said that her son’s fever would come and go and often be accompanied by stomach pains, chest pains, diarrhea and headaches. “It just sort of was all over the place. Every day was some new symptom. Then his fever stayed and it didn’t go and it kept going up and up and one day it was at 103.” Pink said she made frequent calls her doctor, who told her there was nothing to do but monitor Jameson’s symptoms and stay home. “There’s only so much Tylenol you want to give a kid,” said Pink.“It was terrifying at one point and then I got sick,” the singer continued.“In hindsight it all makes sense, but when it’s happening it’s such a weird experience that you don’t put it together until after the fact.”Pink said she began feeling nauseous and had chills on March 16, but never had a fever. “I never had what they tell you to look for,” said Pink, adding that she suffered from severe asthma as a child but hadn’t needed a breathing treatment in 30 years. That changed around March 20, when Pink said she woke up in the middle of the night unable to breathe. “I have a rescuer inhaler that I use and I couldn’t function without it and that’s when I started to get really scared,” said Pink, who understandably began to fear the worst. “All the crazy stuff I did and this is it? This is the way it ends?” Pink said she was able to get a single test and tested herself, getting the positive result back one week later. Soon after, Pink says that her young son began having chest pains and was having trouble while breathing. Speaking through tears, Pink called Jameson’s illness “the scariest thing I’ve ever ever been through in my whole life.”[video_embed id='1729894']RELATED: Pink responds to trolls calling out her parenting choices[/video_embed]Pink said the family were forced to ‘ride it out’ and said she and Jameson slowly began feeling better, noting that Jameson’s fever, a symptom she never had, lingered the longest out of all his ailments. “At one point I was crying and praying and I realized how ridiculous I sounded. I thought they told us our kids were going to be okay. We were told our kids were going to be okay. I think when people started explaining what this disease is, it was too early to be able to name it completely and tell everybody what to look for.”Pink shared her and Jameson’s diagnosis on Instagram on April 4 and was met with criticism for being one of the few people who was able to obtain a test. “It’s very controversial to people that I was able to get my hands on a test. I would say two things to that. You should be angry that I can get a test and you can’t but being angry at me is not going to help anything,” said Pink. “We should work together to try to change that. Number two, tell me anybody with a sick three-year-old that if they could get their hands on test wouldn’t take it. If they say that, I’m going bullshit.”Following her recovery, Pink donated $500,000 to Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, where the singer’s mother worked for 18 years. Pink also donated another $500,000 to the City of Los Angeles Mayor’s Emergency COVID-19 Crisis Fund. “Every single person in the world right now gets to be a superhero just by staying home, just by washing their hands, just by buying their elderly neighbours’ groceries if they shouldn’t be at the store,” said Pink.

 

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Two weeks ago my three-year old son, Jameson, and I are were showing symptoms of COVID-19. Fortunately, our primary care physician had access to tests and I tested positive. My family was already sheltering at home and we continued to do so for the last two weeks following the instruction of our doctor. Just a few days ago we were re-tested and are now thankfully negative. It is an absolute travesty and failure of our government to not make testing more widely accessible. This illness is serious and real. People need to know that the illness affects the young and old, healthy and unhealthy, rich and poor, and we must make testing free and more widely accessible to protect our children, our families, our friends and our communities. In an effort to support the healthcare professionals who are battling on the frontlines every day, I am donating $500,000 to the Temple University Hospital Emergency Fund in Philadelphia in honor of my mother, Judy Moore, who worked there for 18 years in the Cardiomyopathy and Heart Transplant Center. Additionally, I am donating $500,000 to the City of Los Angeles Mayor’s Emergency COVID-19 Crisis Fund. THANK YOU to all of our healthcare professionals and everyone in the world who are working so hard to protect our loved ones. You are our heroes! These next two weeks are crucial: please stay home. Please. Stay. Home.❤️

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