A Whirlwind Kind of Day

63 year old male.

Has difficulty in breathing.

Doesn't believe to Covid19 and he thinks the vaccine has some kind of chip in it.

It all started last week when he suddenly had a flu. At first, it is okay and we think it's normal but he started to feel more pain and he seems weaker the following days. He also lost his appetite so he's not eating that much. We keep on persuading him to get checked but he doesn't want too thinking that he'll be declared as a Covid19 positive once he set foot on a hospital.

Earlier, maybe the pain is not tolerable anymore that he finally agreed to have his checkup. There's a clinic just across our store and that's where we brought him. After undergoing all the needed laboratory testes, we found out that he's at risk at pneumonia and that's more likely to be Covid once he took an RT-PCR test or swab test. Also, another finding is that it can also be dengue since his platelet count is too low while his blood sugar is too high.

But he still have to do an RT-PCR test just to make sure because most of us in the family had a closed contact with him. So, the plan was to isolate him at home while waiting for the test result.

At around 4 pm earlier, I received a phone call from my brother-in-law and he told me to gather all the stuffs that I'll be needing on the following days because my room will become his isolation room since it's the only room downstairs. I moved so fast, get all my stuffs and prepared the room but the plan has changed.

While he was being checked up, his oxygen saturation becomes too low and he can't hardly breath. That's when the doctor says that it's an emergency case and he has to be admitted in a hospital.

It all happened so fast, everyone is fast to move, packing things, calling an ambulance to send him at the hospital. He's still weak and my sister has to come with him so that there is someone that will take care of him. Also, hospital policy is that when you enter, you can't go out anymore, otherwise, you need another antigen test before you can get in again once you go out so along with my sister is her husband's brother who will stand by outside the hospital to run errands for her like buying their foods and other needs.

Going back, our worry now is that he can't be Covid19 positive. We will be greatly affected it that happens. We will have to close the store and we can't afford to close it because we have due dates from all our partner companies. Also, that's where we get our daily needs. We will all stay on quarantine and after 5 days, we will take an antigen test.

We have kids at home and even though they weren't in contact with him, they had a close contact with the adults who had been in closed contacts with him. I am so guilty because I feel like we have been too careless on that part.

But that's just a possible thing to happen when he turns out to be positive. We're not losing hope that he'll turn out negative to Covid19 especially that none of us at home have symptoms. We are all healthy and doing well. As for now, we are just waiting for the swab result.

Even if he turns out negative, we still have to do some adjustments because as I've said, my sister is accompanying him so my nephew was left with me. That also means that I'll be teaching him on his modules for the mean time. Another thing is that I will have to go work at our store starting tomorrow since we are understaffed. In short, I'll be working while studying and teaching and taking care of my nephew. Good luck to me. LOL

But that's way better than closing the store and staying on quarantine.

Anyways, we just received an update right now.

He was already admitted at the hospital and is already tested but the result will be out 2-3 days from now. More waiting for us.

He had a pneumonia and because of that, he's a suspected case for Covid19 so even without the result, he will be staying at the Covid ward. The good thing is that his oxygen saturation is back at normal and he doesn't need oxygen anymore.

As of now, all that we can do is to continue to have faith, to hope and to pray that he'll have a fast recovery and that he'll be negative at Covid. Praise God for removing all our worries away. This is kind of terrifying but we know that God is with us, He listens on our prayers and we have strong faith that all will go in our way, we just have to think positive.

If only he had his checkup sooner it wouldn't progress to pneumonia, that's what the bottom of my mind thinks but now isn't the time to point fingers whose fault is it. Prayers is all that we need.

It all happened so fast, like a whirlwind. I know, this is too personal but I just really have to let this off my system. If you read this until the end, a prayer from you would help us greatly. Thank you very much.

Claiming that the result will came out negative. The only result will be negative. It's negative.

I re-read this first before publishing and I just noticed that I didn't mention who am I pertaining to. He's my brother-in-law's stepdad, by the way.

We have high hopes that it's not Covid because he just usually stay at home and doesn't meet a lot of people aside from us. But of course, this is not us closing our mind to possibilities, this is just us thinking positively despite our situation.

Thank you for your prayers and thank you so much for reading this far.

Take care of your health!

Article No. 148 - October 13, 2021