Table 5 Representative participant descriptions of emotional impacts from RSV

Irritable

Tired and short tempered and very impatient, for real

Agitated and don’t really feel like being bothered

Helpless

Like, how am I going to fix this? I think it was really bad. It set me back a few paces

Frustrated

And so I think the panic was there. And then just the frustration of not being able to stop anything and the length of the illness was significant

Um, mainly frustration. I’m just kind of, you know, not being able to, you know, do my work the same as I usually would; not being able to, you know, go to see my son like I usually would or, you know, go to, you know, my daughter’s concert like I would have

Worried

[Fear] that I was going to die

I had a little breakdown. I cried a little bit because I was starting to really get a little bit, afraid that…What if I don’t come out of this?

Yeah, [worried about] financial implications. I haven’t been able to work