DEAR Editor;
My husband and I are Covid-19 survivors. I just want to share with everyone, briefly, that this virus is no joke. I was like everyone else – wore my mask but hated it, sanitized always, and thought it’s just like flu.
Then, over the Christmas period, we started getting tired but it was the festive season so we just thought it’s normal. We spent lunch on Christmas Day with our daughter and her husband and their two young children.
Honestly, we didn’t even consider it could be anything else except for flu that we started to rapidly develop. I remember my two-year-old granddaughter running to my husband to kiss him goodbye and I said: “No, don’t in case you give her the flu” but she had already kissed him. By my birthday on the 27th I felt very low on energy.
My 70-year-old mother and her sisters surprised me from Pietermaritzburg for the day, and of course, the masks came off. But, no-one got sick.
On the 28th, I went to write my learner’s licence feeling worse, with full on flu like symptoms, but I passed the exam.
By the weekend – New Years – I felt like death. So did my husband. This was one of the worst experiences we have ever been through.
We did it with no assistance as we were scared of the stigma and being avoided, which did happen. There was nights and mornings you wished you were able to breathe more easily.
Then there was times it felt like my eyes were popping out of my head and I was gasping for air, thinking ‘this is it’. But we survived miraculously with no help from a doctor.
We made our medicine from scratch and took loads of vitamins, including zinc, vitamin C and D. This deadly virus spreads through ignorance.
I’m so relieved my family is fine and I will not be taking my mask off for anyone, especially family, because I love and care about their well- being.
To reiterate, this virus is serious and, if you can’t get up and fight while you sick and powerless, you will die for sure. So mask or death, it’s simple.
Stay blessed.
Mrs DR NEL
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