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The morning of April 24 started like any other weekday morning for Paul Coene of Gothenburg. He took the car to his paint shop at 07 and immediately started recruiting for today.
But after half an hour he couldn’t take it anymore. He was terribly tired.
– I went to bed to rest for a while but didn’t wake up until four hours later, says Paul, who was previously interviewed by SvD.
There was no point staying in the workshop and during the trip home the symptoms got worse. He had a high fever and joint pain.
– It was as if a tight band had been tightened around my wrists and knees, says Paul.
Once home, he called an ambulance, which took him to the emergency room at Östra Hospital. There it was discovered that he was infected with covid 19.
– I received oxygen and stayed there for half a day, then they took me home.
But Paul would soon be back in the hospital again. When his ex-wife went to see him at his home, she found Paul unconscious on the living room floor.
I slept ten days
He describes his time in the hospital as terrible. From the window of his hospital room, he saw hearses coming and going, and on the steel beds in the hallway lay human bodies in black sacks.
– They didn’t have time to get rid of the dead. I shared a room with another man my age. Blood clots formed in his lungs and he rolled away. I never saw him again. I don’t know if he survived.
And it was in her hair that Paul also stroked. When his values deteriorated, they put him on a respirator and put him to sleep. Only ten days later he woke up again.
Her struggle to recover from her illness has been long and difficult, and she is still battling it.
– Before getting sick, I was racing motocross at a high level, I was in good shape. Now that I speak to you, I have to stop and catch my breath. For the first two months, I couldn’t speak at all, says Paul.
Now he fears re-infection. The antibody test done at her health center came back negative.
– In tests, it doesn’t even look like it had a crown, says Paul.
“I have no chance to survive”
However, you may have protection, even if it is not visible on an antibody test. This is what Matti Sällberg, professor of biomedical analysis at Karolinska Institutet, tells SvD.
– Your antibodies may not be detectable with available techniques, or you may have had a short-term antibody response. But otherwise he has T cells.
He continues:
– You are probably immune, regardless of whether you have antibodies or not. You don’t dare to say it for sure, but it probably is, says Matti Sällberg.
But Paul Coene is taking no chances. He does what he can to protect himself and believes that more people should realize the seriousness of the situation.
– People think that only the elderly and the sick die, but anyone can be affected. I am afraid of having it again and it affects me a lot. I follow all the news about corona, I update myself on how many have died … The mental part of this is terrible, he says, adding:
– There is no chance that I will survive if I have it again.
