My Covid-19 Battle

I know we have just entered the first quarter of 2023, but the year of the pandemic is still so fresh in my mind.

How can I, or any of us ever forget it? It impacted me and my family in a major way. When I first heard of the initial cases, I honestly didn’t believe it would touch the shores of the US as fast as it did. I’m a conspiracy theorist and thought it was just another government related hoax. Boy!!….Was I wrong?

Within days of the initial case, local news stations were reporting on documented cases in California and then New York, almost overnight. I still had no real cause for alarm because in my mind, if this disease was being transmitted by droplets — I am typically never that close to strangers and felt like I would be okay. Well folks, it didn’t matter. My cautious nature did not protect me. I didn’t catch covid by inhaling the vapors of a passerby stranger — I actually got covid from my wife, who works in an industry that puts her in close contact with many people.

Early on, when the symptoms of Covid-19 were still being developed, she had been complaining of feeling strange, that she couldn’t smell or taste her food the normal way she does. One night while we were sleeping , she was coughing and because we slept so close together — that cough was right in my face. By the turn of the next morning, the feeling that came over my wife — had consumed her and she wanted to get to a hospital to get tested and to find out if she was okay. She was admitted to the hospital and tested positive for Covid-19. This story should really be about her, because she really had the worst this illness could dish out. From being intubated, to actually receiving a call from the hospital staff (after 5 days) that their cautious optimistic belief had dwindled — to where they felt the inevitable was just around the corner.

Meanwhile, I was at home dwindling away myself — since I refused to seek treatment until I knew my wife was out of danger. And then “GOD” stepped in to save her soul. Overnight she had a miraculous turn around and was back on the mend. I thank “GOD” for sparing her life. Once I heard her voice, I immediately sought medical attention and we were both on the mend to a slow but awesome recovery. 

Today I am certain our lives in some way are still being impacted by symptoms of long-covid,

We both reluctantly received the government vaccines, in case you wondered. But I will repeat.. “RELUCTANTLY”

While our story, indeed, has a happy ending, we, like many of you, have friends and close loved ones, who didn’t make it through the same phase we experienced.

We are extremely grateful, but will never forget those who didn’t make it from the year COVID-19 crippled the “world”.