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Describes the days in the hospital as “like torture”
From: Rosanna berg
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Photo: Henry Lundholm
Kent Larsen competed in “Robinson” in 1997 and 2003. He has now survived a difficult battle against covid-19.
Kent Larsen has been hospitalized with covid-19.
It was so bad that he planned his own funeral.
– You feel so bad that you almost wish it would end, he tells Aftonbladet.
Lyckselebon Kent LarsenThe 85-year-old, perhaps better known as “Robinson” – Kent after his participation in the show in 1997 and 2003, has survived the coronavirus – by a narrow margin. He has recently returned home from the hospital when Aftonbladet catches up with him.
– I am completely leached, I still can’t do anything. You also weakened your psyche, you have to think all the time and I still have a little dizziness, he says.
Fever spikes and heart racing
About three weeks ago, Kent Larsen began to feel symptoms.
– First came a terrible whooping cough, I didn’t know what it was. The next day, the throat was full of mucus and blood. I only got worse.
The ambulance picked him up and in the emergency room he tested positive for the virus. He was sent home to rest. But after a few days and a third return to the hospital, he was finally admitted.
– It was my rescue, otherwise I would not have survived, he says.
He describes how the heart escaped with spikes of fever and that it was an experience “like torture.”
– You feel pain everywhere. Now the virus did not take my lungs, but my stomach. You just wanted to throw up and feel bad. I felt so madly bad that you don’t know where to go.
Photo: Niclas Hammarström
Kent Larsen in “Robinson” 1997.
Funeral discussed
When Kent Larsen talks about the hospital staff, tears come to his throat.
– You go to bed in the hospital and they put a drip on you and they are kind as angels, wonderful, he says.
– You see the eyes of the staff and the anxiety in them. Despite all the kindness, you look at them like, “This doesn’t look good.”
They helped him call his love Karin from the hospital bed.
– I could barely speak but my partner and I discussed how we should do with a funeral, we did it … he says with a shaking voice.
How were your thoughts then?
– You feel so bad that you almost want it to end. I got to a stage that I really don’t want to talk about, because I never believed in it. But I saw old friends dead.
He was constantly conscious and never needed to be put to sleep. He thinks he survived because he is generally a healthy 85-year-old man.
– I also have a good oxygen absorption, he says.
“I was close to heaven”
You are now fully focused on recovering and “getting back.”
– They say it may take a month or two before it ends. I hope I can celebrate a healthy Christmas, that’s my hope. It was certainly close to heaven.
Photo: Björn Lindahl.
Kent Larsen returned as a veteran to “Robinson” in 2003.
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