If one in three patients the pandemic sends to hospital survives with Long COVID, then there must be thousands of such cases. Once in a while we come across one that’s more than a side shuffle of the primary disease. Today we describe how long COVID stole the life joy of a survivor because this was no walk in the park.
The Life a Teacher Knew Was Snatched Away
The survivor is a thirty-two-year-old school teacher according to a post in Health 24. She caught COVID-19, it attacked her lungs and she went to hospital. We can put you in ICU, they said, but we can’t guarantee you are going to come out. Oh no, she replied. I’d rather take my chances at home.
The doughty young teacher survived after two months on antibiotics, blood thinners and oxygen. ‘I had a fear I was not going to be able to breathe and that the oxygen would run out,’ she remembers. But this was not the end of the story how long COVID stole the life joy of this survivor. In fact it is beginning to look live an enduring one.
The Life Joy of a Survivor Stolen by Long COVID
A pulmonologist told the doughty young lady she had permanent lung damage from her infection. She has to use as asthma pump to open her chest, morning, noon and night. She developed a brain fog that played havoc with her short-term memory. She panicked until she decided to write everything down.
She has returned to her passion, teaching. But by the end of a session she feels as if she has been awake for three days. She describes her chest pain, body aches, depression and shortness of breath as a yo-yo up and down. But the doughty young school teacher says she will never give up. We admire he strength of will. We wish her all the very best.
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