Two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks described how exhausted and achy he felt during his battle with COVID-19 alongside second wife Rita Wilson at Gold Coast University Hospital in Queensland for three days.
The 63-year-old father-of-four ‘had some body aches and was very fatigued’ to the point that he ‘wiped’ out 12 minutes into a 30-minute basic work-out.
‘I just tried to do basic stretches and exercises on the floor and I couldn’t even get halfway through,’ Tom recalled to The National Defense Radio Show.
Hospitalized for three days: Two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks described how exhausted and achy he felt during his battle with COVID-19 alongside second wife Rita Wilson at Gold Coast University Hospital in Queensland (pictured March 12)
When a nurse checked on Hanks inside his air-pressurized isolated room, ‘She looked at me through her glasses like she was talking to the dumbest human being. And she said, “You have COVID-19.”‘
The Toy Story 4 star said the 63-year-old cabaret crooner suffered far worse from 102F fevers, chills, as well as nausea – which was likely a side effect from the immunosuppressive drug, Chloroquine.
‘She was so nauseous, she had to crawl on the floor from the bed to the facilities. It lasted a while,’ Tom explained.
‘Rita went through a tougher time than I did. She had a much-higher fever and she had some other symptoms. She lost her sense of taste and smell. She got absolutely no joy from food for a better part of three weeks.’
‘I couldn’t even get halfway through’: The 63-year-old father-of-four ‘had some body aches and was very fatigued’ to the point that he ‘wiped’ out 12 minutes into a 30-minute basic work-out
Down under: When a nurse checked on Hanks inside his air-pressurized isolated room, ‘She looked at me through her glasses like she was talking to the dumbest human being. And she said, “You have COVID-19″‘ (pictured March 12)
Cure? The Toy Story 4 star said the 63-year-old cabaret crooner suffered far worse from 102F fevers, chills, as well as nausea – which was likely a side effect from the immunosuppressive drug, Chloroquine (April 9 stock shot)
Tom explained: ‘She was so nauseous, she had to crawl on the floor from the bed to the facilities…Rita went through a tougher time than I did. She had a much-higher fever and she had some other symptoms. She lost her sense of taste and smell’ (pictured March 27)
Indeed, Rita said of the controversial treatment to Today last Wednesday: ‘I think people have to be very considerate about that drug. We don’t know if it’s helpful in this case’
Indeed, Rita said of the controversial treatment to Today last Wednesday: ‘I think people have to be very considerate about that drug. We don’t know if it’s helpful in this case.’
‘We recently had been part of a study where we donated our blood and we are waiting to hear back if our antibodies will be helpful in developing a vaccine,’ The Girls alum noted on the NBC morning show.
‘But also if we are able to donate plasma that can be used as donation to other people that are suffering from the virus because we are immune.’
Hanks and Wilson – who announced their diagnosis on March 12 – will celebrate their 22nd wedding anniversary on April 30.
The healing power of laughter: Since returning to Los Angeles, Hanks remotely hosted NBC’s first-ever Saturday Night Live at Home on April 11
Canceled? Sony Pictures postponed the June 12 release of Tom’s WWII movie Greyhound co-starring Elisabeth Shue ‘indefinitely’ on March 30
Since returning to Los Angeles, the A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood actor remotely hosted NBC’s first-ever Saturday Night Live at Home on April 11.
Sony Pictures postponed the June 12 release of Tom’s WWII movie Greyhound co-starring Elisabeth Shue ‘indefinitely’ on March 30.
Last week, the rap trio Naughty by Nature released a remix of their 1992 hit Hip Hop Hooray featuring Wilson on vocals to benefit the MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund.
Rita (born Margarita Ibrahimoff) also remotely performed the National Anthem during NASCAR’s iRacing Pro Invitational Series Race on April 5.
Viral success: Last week, the rap trio Naughty by Nature released a remix of their 1992 hit Hip Hop Hooray featuring Wilson on vocals to benefit the MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund
Still singing! Rita (born Margarita Ibrahimoff) also remotely performed the National Anthem during NASCAR’s iRacing Pro Invitational Series Race on April 5