Australian golf legend Greg Norman recently returned to a United States hospital in Florida after suffering “hideous” COVID-19 symptoms, The Guardian reports.
What happened:
Norman — who won major golf titles in 1986 and 1993 — tested positive for the novel coronavirus after he originally tested negative at the exhibition PNC Championship in Orlando from Dec. 19-20, according to The Guardian.
- Norman returned to the hospital on Christmas Day.
- The golf great went home on Boxing Day — the day after Christmas — where he will self-isolate as he waits more test results, according to The Guardian.
- “I hope this will be my final update on this COVID saga ... back in hospital after getting a positive result,” he wrote on Instagram. “The path to full recovery. Hoping to be out later today.”
What were his COVID-19 symptoms?
Norman detailed his own COVID-19 symptoms in the Instagram post. He said he had “hideous” symptoms despite his high threshold for pain.
- The virus “kicked the crap out of me like nothing I have ever experienced before,” he said.
- “Muscle and joint pain on another level. Headaches that feel like a chisel going through your head scraping little bits off each time, fever, muscles that just did not want to work like yesterday walking my dog Apollo my quads and hip flexors just did not want to work due to fatigue.
- “Then my taste failed, where beer tastes bad and wine the same ... at times struggling with memory of names and things.”