Journalist Manolis Kostidis on his battle with the coronavirus: I was drowning, I went to war, for the first time I was so scared | HELLAS

“It was the first time in my life that I was so scared. I was drowning!” With these words, journalist Manolis Kostidis describes his battle against the coronavirus.

“I realized I had something about 10 days ago. I couldn’t sleep, I was choking. I had a cough, my eyes were red and I decided to get tested. I went to a private lab, got tested and after 4-5 They took me for hours and they told me it was positive. My first thought was “what do we do now?” My wife was negative and had to leave the house to avoid getting stuck. So I wrote down in a notebook the phone numbers I had to pick up if I I couldn’t speak and what to do if I had to be hospitalized. It was the first time in my life that I was so scared. Until then I felt invulnerable. I have been in wars, in Iraq, in Syria and I have not been afraid. Now i was so scared“Says Manolis Kostidis speaking with SKAI.

As he points out, on the second day the symptoms worsened. “I had a cough, runny nose, tension, my chest began to tighten more and more. Here the system works as follows: The private laboratory notifies the state. After an hour they took me out of the Ministry of Health and told me they would call me the doctor. After 2 hours a doctor came to my house, brought me a medicine, but even though I was taking it for 3 days I was not feeling well. I did not sleep at all for two nights. I was exhausted. “I did not close the house. , because I was thinking that if I suffer from something, they will be able to enter, “he points out. In fact, he adds that in case he needed to be transferred to a hospital, he had also organized a second plan, to go and come to a hospital in Alexandroupolis.

Nine days later, Manolis Kostidis emphasizes that he still has chest discomfort and as soon as he completes his quarantine, he will go for X-rays. “Here is an application for the coronavirus, where they give you a code so that the state you are in knows. In the first days it was red and now it turns yellow. If I do a test on the 11th and it comes out negative, I can leave “.