1. day
I wake up when Gundars says we won’t be able to drive anywhere (in the countryside) because he has symptoms: fever and cough. Bāc. You need to quickly understand how to proceed. Calling the family doctor, she says, so that the husband turns to his family doctor. You are his family doctor, I say (this is an example of the need to maintain any contact with your family doctor, pliz), we find out that the card is, all in stok, a sick page from tomorrow (because it is Sunday), the test must be done in Swan ‘s laboratory, a time will probably call tomorrow.
Write to your classmate and friend Kristaps: I, maybe we need soap, can you bring paracetamol and yogurt? Kristaps brings everything and says: come out of the stairs, I will go downstairs, we will be able to chat. We are chatting, and I already think that maybe we will chat now.
The day goes by waiting for us to come up with something.
Marta asked the family doctor if she could go for a walk as a contact person. She thinks and says she can. This is her last walk before a break of several weeks.
Photo: Marta Dziļuma
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2. day
Gundar must definitely take the test today, his employers say. Due to the fact that the opera closed and the virus has spread everywhere in the musicians’ environment, a password is given, which must be said when going to the test without a queue.
Going without a queue is very annoying. Very. In Ķīpsala, the test collection point is not so easy to find, you have to drive around the exhibition hall. In the end, we are in the right place: it is as if there is a point in the desert where people are invited to come in from time to time, who from time to time appear as if from nowhere. Gundars is inside and we can drive home soon. No one is infected yet, and no one is a contact yet, so I rush to the store to buy cream, almost everything else we buy in direct purchase.
We are quite calmly waiting for the test results, a girlfriend calls a doctor in the middle and says that this case sounds negative, so we do not worry. At around eight o’clock in the evening the laboratory’s answer arrives: positive. Now it has to rearrange everything.
3. and the next few days
When the patient is positive, he is called and asked for anything. Also the contact calls and calls. The first part of the day is full of events. I try to say that I would also like a test, I am told, there are no symptoms, no test. OK good. The next day I have to insist that a test is needed, in Valdeku Street, where the nearest point is, the test will be available after a long time, but in Kipsala – already this Sunday.
The following days pass as a reality of such a stunned mind. The first symptoms appear right away, but all the time mind control tries to say that maybe that’s not it yet.
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