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My Covid-19 experience (Suraj Divakaran)

Published on 20 September, 2020
My Covid-19 experience (Suraj Divakaran)
Covid-19.... Oh!!!  I am jaded by my own subconscious mind thinking about it or letting my ears ring with the sound of it.  Well,   apparently,   it is a body which cannot be seen through naked eyes.  So minuscule,   but minuscule enough to stop our breath.  With its intensity,   it has imposed a pandemonic era on the earth.   This virus is indiscreet enough to disrupt respiratory systems. ,   crash markets and business, shut down Mumbai’s lifeline local trains,   close schools and colleges,  desert roads and make us wear masks and shields,  implying surgical operations.  In summation,   it has almost crashed every aspect of life,  including life itself.

6 months,   not a step outside the house.   Except my father,  who was tensed about his job escaped to his office even if there is any slightest possibility of reaching Andheri from Virar.   Drinking gallons of hot water,   more nutritious food,   inhaling steam,  salt water gargling,   washing hands every now and then,   sanitising every nook and cranny of the house.   So it was astonishing to get feverish and then to be tested positive for covid-19. We weren’t allowed home quarantine by the authorities,  so we had to move to a quarantine centre cum hospital in Vasai.Trust me,  you do not want to see people staring at you when you get into an ambulance.   Abruptly,   you become the centre of attention.  For what?  Like that’s a good thing?

Anyways we reached the facility.  It was a college converted into a covid-19 treatment centre.  A very big hall full of single beds,   around 15-16 pre-occupied.   Those in our hall were calm but frustrated.  Funny?   Calm as there were no intensive coughing or breathlessness and frustrated,   as they too have to stay there away from home like us. The scenario was pretty much comparable to a train, with men and women together,  kids running around without hesitation even if it pisses you off, a small baby crying aloud and disturbing your sleep, . people fighting over charging their phones to maximum,  taking turns to fillbottles with hot wateretc. The ones who were critical, on oxygen support were put up in  the lower floors. Gonsalo Garcia college was the precise opposite from our imagination. Staff, doctors and volunteers were kind and hardworking enough to mitigate the nervousness about the situation. Food they provided was good.  Luckily we did not have to face or see the ugly side of covid-19.  By Jove !!!! Even if you are not going to die of covid-19, boredom will lay it’s icy hands on you. Because you have no idea,  what to do rather walk through the porch way,   eat and sleep.  We had a couple of books with us to shoo away the boredom. Amazing isn’t it?   But not that much.

The idea of public toilet/bathroom disgusted me when my comfort zone is my own home.  The most fearless you need to be is when doctors come around with their “ arms and ammunitions “ I mean the temperature scanners and pulse oximeters.  You never want to get their parameters wrong,   else you may get shifted to the ground floor. Finally after 10 days,  all our symptoms got  zeroed in,   we were allowed to go home fit as fiddle. We wished our room mates speedy recovery and bid goodbye to GG College.

According to me,   this situation is pretty much inclusive to our lifestyle,   so we need to adapt to the situation.  We have to live with covid-19,   so we should learn to fight. Do not ever underestimate covid-19.  They are strong enough to kill us. We need to be cautious and the one at risks should to be shifted to hospitals.  Self medication or taking covid-19 lightly will be foolishness.  Take all the necessary precautions as per covid-19 guidelines and be fearless.  As tension,  fear will make your body and mind weak in the fight and you will give covid-19 a better chance to win.Gratefulness to my family, relatives, metaphorical angels like doctors and friends helped us to fire back and defeat covid-19 in its attempt to destroy us.




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