January 5, 2022
Last night, as we were in our daily night life, after work, the silence is broken by a sad news. One of the employees that was with us yesterday is positive for antigen test. She has a slight fever on Tuesday that pursue yesterday and requested to be tested for antigen. She tested herself and reported positive. She will be undergoing RT PCR test today.
After we received that sad news my life changes abruptly. My mood shifted and anxiety came after. I was shaking. I try to act normal so that no one at home will able to notice. The feeling I had last July 23, 2020 is the same feeling I hold last night. It all came back to me.
Me and my officemates kept on conversing through messenger, we don't want to call each other to avoid commotion. We tried to keep it as private as possible because if our family hear it, for sure we are just spreading the stress.
I try my best to shift my mood as I don't want to absorb any negativities from the sad news so I watch funny Run BTS episodes. It works, but at the end, I still keep thinking.
I able to sleep anyway. As soon as I wake up, I check on my phone for some information. Last night they announced that we should not report to the office as they will disinfect it. We are close contact of the one employee who got positive in antigen test and I believe there are lots of virus there already because it is spread quickly. It is good for all of us to be isolated at home for more safety.
The remaining employees who reported at work today, in different departments, are required to do antigen test and 3 out of 8 are now positive in antigen. All are required for RT PCR test. I think from 8 employees last Monday, 4 are added. I hope it stops from there.
I just hope that the 4 added employees are all negative from Covid so that we will able to come back to work. This is the first time that we experience the quick number of infected employees. Everyone of us are worried for our safety. It is hard when the situation is this not because of not being to work, but the anxiety is growing I inside you. Your mental health is at stake. Once it attack your mental health that is a big problem already, you could have severe anxiety and depression that instead of getting healed, you get worsen. I don't want to find myself feeling panic, and shaking, it us bad for my heart and oxygen level.
The best is to isolate, all of us, symptomatic or not before getting back to the office. Please pray for everyone who are ill today!!!
Sorry guys for I am not in my regular self at the moment. I am trying my best to shift my mood but it is not working, but I will fight for this for myself and my family.
An antigen test kit will be provided for us to test ourselves. Praying that I am negative for it. I just felt the symptoms since Monday but I was negative when tested. I pray the result is the same for me later on.
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Hoping and praying that you are negative Tukayo. 🙏