Tracy beats Covid – ‘It was 15 days of pure hell’
"And what is going to be the next mountain you are going to overcome?"
MBOMBELA – “Nothing! I’m now finished. I just want to live my life in peace and happiness.”
This was the reaction of Tracy Todd-Heine, better known as the Lowveld’s Brave Lotus Flower, when she spoke to Lowvelder shortly after her discharge from hospital, where she fought off the dreaded Covid-19 virus.
“What a beast of a disease. Yoh! “It was 15 days of pure hell. I have never been so sick or so close to death in all my life. Being a high-level quadriplegic obviously made it worse, because of my inability
to cough and get rid of phlegm on my own. “I was literally drowning in my own bodily fluids. It was extremely traumatic,” a still out-of-breath Todd-Heine told the newspaper.
She was diagnosed with Covid just more than two weeks ago. She refused to be admitted to hospital, mainly due to the 24-hour care she needs from her caregivers. Her medical team, Drs Attie van Wyk and Johan Wolfaard, originally treated her at home.
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“I got so weak in the end that there was no other choice but to have me hospitalised.”
She reacted so well to the treat-ment she received that she was sent home after only three days in hospital.
“I made it and am grateful to be surrounded by my own home comforts and loved ones. There aren’t sufficient words to express my gratitude to all my earth angels who just sprang into action. Thank you for all the messages and prayers. “I felt how I was being carried through all of this by all the love. You all mean the world to me,” she said in a Facebook post.
She said it is a miracle that she recovered, because there are so many young, healthy able-bodied people dying from this disease every day, all over the world.
“It still feels unfathomable how such a small virus can cause so much suffering, trauma and devastation.”
