Broadway Star Danny Burstein on His Struggles After COVID-19: 'I'm Not Really Sure How I'm Doing' (Guest Column)

I'd written about my six-day experience in New York's St. Luke's Hospital, now Mount Sinai, while suffering from COVID-19, with difficulty breathing and a temperature that at one point hit 104. It had been quite a traumatic experience for me, and I found writing about it therapeutic. Four months later — and here's the honest truth — I'm not really sure how I'm doing.

I walked to the market at midnight every other night to shop for food when the store was fairly empty. Becca suffered through my terrible cooking. She sweetly never said anything bad about the experimental slop I threw in front of her at dinner. Thankfully, her bout lasted only about a week. She had three days of a mild fever and lost her sense of taste and smell, common symptoms of the illness, but was otherwise OK. She needed a lucky break.

On April 22, about five weeks after being released from the hospital, I thought I was having a heart attack. I felt constricting chest pains and a pain in my jaw and left shoulder traveling down my arm. So I marched myself to St. Luke's ER once again — this time alone. I phoned my best friend, George Dvorsky, to run to my apartment to take care of Becca while I was in the hospital. I wasn't sure if I would be admitted or whether I would be there for a short while.

I'd like to tell you about the nurse who gave me the EKG the second time I went to the ER. She was a lovely Dominican woman in her 30s. She was kind, professional and simply fantastic at her job. She asked why I was there. I told her I was having chest pains and that I'd just been there a month before in the COVID unit. I told her that she and everyone in the building had saved my life.

And now I'm about to tell you the toughest news: Becca's ALS rapidly has been getting worse quite rapidly. After being diagnosed in November of last year, she bravely announced her battle with the disease on Feb. 9. At the very end of that month she could no longer walk.

Please TRH, send to Mr Danny Burstein, whom I know, plus Mr Aaron Tveit, for 3 months now, at Moulain Rouse Musical (youtube): 'If my love was worth anything, I would send him- it was all for you, Mr Danny Burstein - humanity at its fullest. I wish everything would get better '.

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