It’s been a long road for WTOC weekend sports anchor and reporter Lyndsey Gough, who contracted Covid-19 last month. After weeks of illness, the 27-year-old reporter is still in the hospital, and today posted on Twitter that she was “not doing so well.”
Gough, who has been at the Savannah, Ga., station since February 2019, was diagnosed with the virus on June 30 after feeling flu-like symptoms. She was bed-bound by the July 4 holiday weekend, and ended up in the hospital with appendicitis a few days later.
“For those who don’t know, I contracted Covid-19, I believe on June 20,” Gough wrote on social media about her experience with the virus. “The next 3 days I felt very tired, and the 23rd I began having flu-like symptoms (body and muscle aches, chills), a cough, congestion, nausea, fatigue, headache, lack of appetite and eventually losing my sense of smell & taste. I also experienced waves of abdominal pain making it hard to get up or sit up/lay down. I nearly passed out taking my dog for a short walk.”
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Gough, who’s recovering in the hospital, says when she went to the ER, the doctor said her appendix needed to come out immediately. There was some good news though: she didn’t have any lung damage from the virus.
“My surgeon told me essentially, coronavirus had been like a ‘lightning strike’ to my system,” Gough wrote. “I now had appendicitis & it was very large. He would try to take it out with small incisions, but no promises. Before midnight June 8, I was off to surgery. Fortunately, pre-op chest x-rays revealed no lung damage from coronavirus. A win.”
Gough had been reporting up until when she got ill.
TVSpy will continue to monitor her feeds for updates. Viewers have donated money to help her pay hospital bills.
