Christian singer and worship leader Charles Billingsley is crediting the grace of God for healing him from the coronavirus and for keeping his family healthy after a three-week ordeal that saw him face possible death.
“My doctor told me … ‘If you weren’t in half decent shape you’d be dead,’” Billingsley told the Rick and Bubba radio show this week.
All total, his bout with the coronavirus lasted 24 days. He began feeling symptoms the evening of March 27, the same night he enjoyed an anniversary dinner with his wife. Thinking it was only a low-grade fever, he golfed the next day and took part in online church services Sunday, March 29. By that night, his fever had risen.
He isolated himself. For the next week, his fever was around 102-103 degrees.
“And somehow, someway, by the grace of God, my family stayed negative the entire time,” Billingsley said.
But Billingsley was far from healthy. In fact, his condition grew worse after that first week, and he was admitted to the hospital.
“My blood work and stuff was just off the charts,” he said. “… This is a cruel, cruel virus. It attacks you neurologically and physically.”
He spent two nights in the hospital. On his final day, he said the doctor told him, “Your blood work [is] actually worse today than it was yesterday.” She gave him the option of leaving and going home but warned him his…
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