My mother has COVID-19. And the chaos began – Diseases

My mother has a birthday! He lost his sense of smell and taste two days ago. For a week she has had a mild fever that passes without medication. I call a friend on “Pirogov”. “Don’t come here at all. It’s scary. Total chaos. Crazy,” he tells me. I find another hospital. Along with the positive antigen test, my mother received serious therapy at home. Instead of a cake, you have to do a PCR test to get into the system, “if it gets worse.”

And the chaos began

There are no instructions for me. They just told me to stay home. Nobody tells me to get tested after being in contact with my mother the day before I have symptoms. I talk to well-known doctors who advise me not to get tested, because if I am not infected, I will definitely get infected. I feel at home isolated and every sneeze, fatigue, desire to sleep, headache, is a question: do the symptoms begin in me?

Hospital director: we have beds, we don’t have staff

My mother drives through various labs. Dozens of people are waiting everywhere. He asks me on the phone if it’s okay to sit in a queue, even wearing a mask, after he gets sick. “What if I infected someone? I’ll wait in the car until it’s my turn. But why don’t they recognize the antigen test? What’s the point then? It’s stupid to do two tests because of a supposedly hospital admission protocol easier. Preliminary PCR, and without it there are no places in hospitals. “

We talk soon and keep up the good content. It tells me the following:

There is a knock on the door and the lab assistant yells, “What are you for?” I told her. He looks at me with hostility and asks me why I decided to have a PCR test. I answer that it is because I have a positive antigen. Her: “Well then what is your PCR for? Go away.” I tell him they send me from the hospital where they did the antigen test. She huffs angrily and scolds me for walking past people with a positive antigen test. I explain that I am in a car and have been waiting inside. He asks me another question: “Who infected you?” I answer that I don’t know, but I go everywhere with a mask and do not meet anyone after the symptoms appear. “Oh well, sit down.” I was finally accepted.

Prof. Ivo Petrov with advice on how to act in case of coronavirus infection

We waited 48 hours for the PCR result. No one tells us when to count the 14 days of quarantine, from the onset of symptoms or a positive PCR test.

My mother calls the GP. “Why are you just starting to take an antibiotic and wait seven days?” The doctor asks and continues in a short conversation, without waiting for an answer: “If you have all the tests and therapy, why are you calling? Drink your things and stay home. “

I call her to find out what to do, since on the tenth day of my contact with my mother I have no symptoms (at least I think so). “Whistle!” She replies. I keep pushing and wondering if I should get tested to see if I’ve been infected, and maybe I am now.

“But why are you asking me these things? So many things have been written. Do whatever tests you want.”

“Should I drink zinc, selenium, something …?”

“Wow, I don’t drink anything but vitamin D. Drink whatever you want.”

“How do I know when I can go to work, to the store?”

“But if you don’t have symptoms on the tenth day, sing your heart out. Go where you want.”

Doctors from the Military Medical Academy found an important detail in the operation of a patient with COVID-19

I am writing to a friend who is a doctor and works with COVID-19 patients in Germany. I tell him everything and he responds: “From the eighth to the tenth day after contact is critical. If things get worse, then it will be. After the twelfth day of contact, you can now ‘breathe easier’ if there are no symptoms. But it is better stay home for 14 days. “

We each sit at home and wait

Three more days. Today is the tenth day since the beginning of my mother’s symptoms and the eleventh since my contact with her. I have no idea what to do with myself or what song to “sing” my heart. The thermometer is my only weapon. I shake it every two hours to scare myself. I have not read or seen anything related to the coronavirus for days. I can’t just rule out the howl of ambulances from the boulevard below us.

At least for my mother, I am reassured that she is taking medication. I pray and hope that in about three or four days we will have a cake together for his birthday. Just not to turn up the heat.