The epidemiological situation in Primorye is deteriorating – the number of coronavirus cases is growing day by day. The second wave washed away doubts even from those who did not believe in the existence of COVID-19. Corr. IA UssurMedia interviewed a person who is sick with coronavirus, and found out what the victim of COVID-19 is experiencing.
Tatiana lives in Ussuriisk, she has a husband and two children. Next is a first-person story.
To be honest, we were afraid that we might catch the coronavirus. Too often, acquaintances, colleagues, neighbors, friends began to get sick … After all, we are social people: my husband and I have work, one child is in the garden, the second is at school. Therefore, they tried to strengthen the immune system, washed their hands, kept their distance and did not deny wearing masks. But, as it turned out, this did not save us. Who brought the infection – you can guess endlessly, and that’s not the point.
The first day
The daughter has a stuffy nose. It seems to be okay, but we did not take her to the garden. Still, the epidemiological situation in the country is not very good, we decided to sit out at home. At night, my daughter’s temperature rose. A little – a maximum of 37.5.
Day two and three
The night temperature rise did not stop. Moreover, during the day everything is fine, the child is cheerful and cheerful, the temperature is absent. And by nightfall, a steady increase. By the end of the second day, Anya developed a slight cough. By this time, I also had a mild, allergic-like rhinitis. Stuffed his nose and felt a slight tickling somewhere deep in the nasal cavity. I wrote off everything on dry air in the room (the heating season had just begun).
Diary of a person infected with a coronavirus infection. Photo: website pixabay.com
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Day four
Hell began right in the early morning. “Niagara Falls” poured from my nose, it was impossible to stop the stream. I was suffocating like a fish, I was sorely lacking air, and it was getting dark in my eyes. At the same time, the head was splitting terribly, it seemed to explode from the inside. The frontal sinuses echoed with incredible aches. The condition was broken, and the temperature, which is typical, was normal.
The daughter began to cough harder. They called a pediatrician, she advised us to take tests. My daughter turned out to be COVID-positive, I got a negative result. We were quarantined. Hello four walls and expectation of the worst.
Day seven
Three days later, Rospotrebnadzor employees arrived and took tests from the whole family. At this point, I again began to feel quite healthy, worried only about nasal congestion and a slight headache. Repeated tests gave the result: daughter and I are COVID positive, husband and son are COVID negative.
On this day, the sense of smell and taste disappeared. It all happened suddenly, I didn’t even understand how. I just made my morning coffee as usual and realized that I didn’t smell it. I rushed to check myself, poured caustic perfume on my hand and … nothing. It was a shock. Another “bonus” of this unfortunate day – in the evening I felt the lymph nodes in my neck swell.
Day eight
Oddly enough, but in the morning my condition returned to normal, probably thanks to the immunity. Although the head continued to split, and between the eyebrows there was a “third eye”. The painkillers did not treacherously help.
Day nine
A terrible muscle ache all over my body began. It was impossible to walk, sit, lie. The painkillers didn’t help at all. I wanted to howl like a wolf, especially at night.
Diary of a person infected with a coronavirus infection. Photo: website pixabay.com
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Day ten and eleven
The muscle pain in the body did not go away. The treatment was standard, but to be honest, we did not take any antiviral or antibiotics. Water, berry fruit drinks, tea with sea buckthorn, ginger and lemon, honey. Vitamin C, oranges, fruits. True, the daughter was given coughs and used nose drops. This was the end of our treatment. The temperature is still normal.
Wednesday 28 October
We are waiting for the test results on Friday. The doctor promised that if they were negative, we would be discharged. Now we feel almost healthy, light congestion remains deep in the ethmoid bone region (separating the nasal cavity from the cranial cavity). We are glad that we got sick easily. For this, thanks to our nutrition, sports, the absence of chronic diseases and a healthy lifestyle. By the way, even banal acute respiratory infections and acute respiratory viral infections in our family are extremely rare. Therefore, good luck to everyone, calmness and lack of panic.
PS The sense of smell and taste never returned. When I cook food, I have to consult with my son about the presence of salt, spices and other things. I hope that everything will return to normal soon, although I understand that we may have to wait. A friend who had had a coronavirus had a sense of smell only a couple of months later returned.
Note that over the past day in Primorye, 180 new cases of COVID-19 have been identified, with a total of 14,793 people infected. During the day, 98 patients defeated the coronavirus, one person could not cope with the disease.
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