How I recovered from COVID-19 –Healthplus MD
The Managing Director of Healthplus Pharmacy, Mrs. Bukky George, says she and 10 other members of her family have fully recuperated from COVID-19 after receiving treatment at the Infectious Diseases Hospital in Yaba.
George disclosed that as the pandemic trended in Asia, Europe and the Americas, she was abreast of development. When the cough became persistent for a few more days, she deemed it necessary to take him for a visit to the hospital where a COVID-19 antibody test was carried out. George noted that she grabbed a piece of paper and started scribbling and consequently discovered that 11 out of 12 persons had tested positive.
The pharmacist stressed that she has learnt a lesson of a lifetime making her vow to confess the negatives again as ‘there is power in the tongue.’After breaking the news to the family, her son researched information on what COVID survivors did and shared the details with her. “We continued our prescription medicines and nutritional supplements. The supplements included our usual multivitamin and mineral Complex, Immune Boosters, Zinc, Black Seed Oil and Vitamin D,” she said.In her narration, the hospital was clean and the isolation building had been renovated from the Ebola times.
“She coached me to breathe in and hold for 10 seconds, then breathe out and in again. I repeated these for 10 minutes. When I stood up, I felt better. Next was chest physiotherapy. She patted my back for some minutes. I was then offered a very hot cup of tea. I felt much better,” she reminisced.
“Over the next five days, I got progressively worse. No fever, no loss of smell, no loss of taste, no headaches, just this horrible respiratory illness! Breathing was laboured. There was a fullness in my throat like I had extra flesh inside the base of my throat. There was a tugging sensation across my throat and chest. There was perpetual painful turbulence in my chest. I felt awful. The symptoms, which were sometimes indescribable, were worse at night,” she said.
“My pulse oximeter was my companion. As long as the oxygen saturation in my blood was equal to or greater than 95, all was well. So I tracked this measurement periodically each day. I dipped to 92 on a few occasions but the breathing technique I found on Youtube and my other routines bumped my numbers back up.
At a point, the burden of looking out for so many of her family members and domestic staff gutted her.
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