Food celebrity Sandra Lee posted an Instagram this week, detailing her experience with COVID-19 infection, as well as an update on her Uncle Bill who had been hospitalized with COVID-19 earlier this year.
Sandra returned from a social media break to pen the caption, which was previously reported on by PEOPLE Magazine. Sandra confirmed that she has COVID-19 antibodies following infection and that the night she became symptomatic, the "inside of [her] body felt like a pinball machine had gone off."
"With the metal ball pinging-all over the place -such an odd feeling—from my lower stomach up right through my heart- and back again....over and over! Ugh the Heart needs a break- god bless!" she wrote.
From there, she experienced "a massive headache with stuffy nose, minimum chest pain and then total exhaustion," as well as losing her sense of taste and smell. Sandra said that she avoided sharing it because she "didn't want to bring any attention to it .....certainly not with everything else already going on."
She also gave an update on some of her family members who had COVID-19, including her Uncle Bill who was hospitalized. Sandra said he was released from the hospital, came back home, and "within 48 hours he had fallen down and had to be taken back to the hospital, they released him that very day and he came right home and fell down again as he walked to the door." Now he is recovering in a rehab facility, though Sandra said it's been difficult to get an appointment to see him. Her Aunt Peg also had COVID-19 but was "barely affected." Sandra is very close with both her aunt and uncle, PEOPLE reported, and even lived with them when she was younger.
