Experience of A COVID-19 Victim
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| COVI9 19 Vaccine |
The lady being interviewed said she was a very active and
busy individual who is always going from one project to another, always on the
go for she was always experiencing very exceptional good health.
However for about a weeks she started experience fever and
chills only at night, but in the mornings
and throughout the day she was quite ok,
she experienced ,no eye pain, no acidic taste ,no bad taste, no sore
throat or running nose ,no cough like whatever like many people stated they had
with the unset of the virus
She said after 5 days with the night fever she stated
felling tired and her skin became so tender she could not lotion her skin. I
think it was her daughter who said mommy.” You could be getting “Covid19”. She
said she started to do the steaming of the nostrils drank lots of hot liquids,
turmeric tea and gargle the throat with
hot water and salt that many said would stop CIVID!19 its tracks.
But non of that had any effect. She stared having real fever
and chills in the day s and her daughter
Said Mommy you cod be having Covid19. She reported it and a doctor came
and tested her, she was COVID19 positive. She was told to go into immediate
Quarantine.
She was advised to get an oxygen level testing machine(Pulse
Oximeter}and test her oxygen levels. Normal oxygen levels should be 95 .If it
goes below you could be heading for
trouble. Her’ was 88. On the Sunday She
went out into the open air and started blowing bubbles in water and got it back
up to 95.
By Tuesday it went
back down and try as she could it would not get it back up back to 95.
She started to have breathed problems and was quickly rushed
on to the National Chest Hospital in Kingston,
She said they were very good from the porter who saw them as
they came in and rush with a wheel chair and took her straight where the Doctors and nurses quickly hooked
her up to oxygen and stated working on her immediately.
She became much better that they could send her home but,
not without some damage done.
She said having the virus is much more problematic than what
people think. She was about 45 years old or there about. She had no COVID19
morbidities. However, she had to be given blood thinner because by way of an
injection because doctors told her she started develops clots, and her plates
got very low, so she was treated for that too. She was then told that she had
also developed pneumonia in her lungs.
At the time of the interview, she out and at home, however
she still was not over the pneumonia but was getting treatment at home.
It was a long interview, they had run out of time, it would
be continued the next day. I listened for it, but it seemed as if I missed it
or she was too ill to continue. To read it and hear it is no comparison. It was
really heart breaking. It makes me want to take the COVID 19 vaccine
She gave accolades to the Staff at the National Chest
Hospital, Kingston and advised if you are experience the COVID 19
you should head straight to that hospital. They are Knowledgeable and
considerate, and very professional.
Interviewer
: Emily Shield
Contribution
Author : Juliet Christie Murray
JICM
Wellness Centre, Sandy Bay Hanover, Jamaica