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“Am I Kidnapped?”: Powerful account of a Chilean nurse who was in a coma for 13 days for Covid-19
“Am I Kidnapped?”: Powerful account of a Chilean nurse who was in a coma for 13 days for Covid-19
The coronavirus COVID-19 continues to attack in different latitudes of the world and in our country, until this Saturday, the number of those infected exceeded 12,800 nationwide.
Hundreds of them remain hospitalized in critical care units (ICU) and dozens struggle daily to get out of the critical condition they are in.
In this context, health personnel are exposed to this dangerous virus due to the nature of their work, and they know this well. Marianela Vargas, a 59-year-old nurse who became infected with COVID-19, which kept her close to a month in the El Carmen de Maipú Hospital, the community where she lives.
Vargas worked as a nurse in the Public Assistance Emergency Hospital (ex Central Post), and after being diagnosed with coronavirus, she was admitted on March 22 in El Carmen.
“I arrived feeling very bad. There they did not know whether or not to admit me as a respiratory patient because I did not have the symptoms of COVID: I had not had a fever, but everything hurt. All I wanted was to lie down, ”she recalled in conversation with LUN.
The day after arriving at the compound, they performed a lumbar drive, since they suspected meningitis. Then they decided to take the PCR test and two days later the result was positive.
During that time she remained isolated and on March 28 she was transferred to the ICU. “Suddenly I saw everyone arrive with oxygen tubes, monitors and things. They told me “we are going to take her to a place where she will be better.” And they took me“He said.
The days in the ICU were not easy at all. Marianela was very afraid of feeling pain because she had already heard that she would be intubated to connect her to a mechanical respirator, and although she had the technical knowledge she really did not know how much it hurt or bothered, so she took the hand of one of the doctors and told her : “Please doctor, I do not want to feel pain, I am very afraid”, to which the professional replied that everything would be fine. That is her last memory before she was intubated.
When he woke up he felt “absolutely lost“And even raved. “I never stopped thinking that I was hospitalized at the Central Post. I said ‘This is not the ICU of La Posta, where do you have me? Am I kidnapped? ’I was very distressedHe confessed.
She was also unable to speak and was upset, so much so that she even bit the tube in her mouth and medical staff told her not to. “I was angry, so I said ‘why can’t I bite this if it bothers me’?“
The woman does not know how many days she remained connected to the mechanical respirator and only remembers that when she was removed, she had a “very unpleasant” sensation.
Relationship with family
Given his condition, El Carmen’s doctors played video calls with his family every day. They asked her to wave and she felt so bad that she did not understand why they asked her to.
On the other hand, her family contacted the doctor in charge daily and he gave them information from behind the windows, so she could not listen.
Finally, on April 9 they transferred her to the Medicine Service, where she continued with some delusions and slept little, until she was discharged.
Now she must remain locked up for 14 more days, in a piece that was adapted for her.
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