Covid Care 101

It's been a month. And yet I cannot claim that I have completely recovered from Covid.

Thankfully, it didn't go overboard! I didn't have to head to the hospital. It was mild enough to be home quarantined. Or may be, it was because I was in denial!

Yes! I felt this urge to deny the fact that I've got Covid. Even though the fever felt nothing like ordinary. Even though there was uneasiness in the body and the paracetamol could barely keep the fever at bay for five hours. And yet, my instinct was to deny that it's Covid. 

Until it was finally time to face the fact on the 5th day, when I lost my sense of smelling. The fever had gotten better by then. Mainly because I had started taking Antibiotics from the very 2nd day.

Let me rewind and take you through the whole experience.

I felt feverish at night. Somehow made dinner and took a paracetamol just to be safe. I had just shifted from one flat to the other and I had it in the back of my mind that I might get infected inspite of the precautions.

The paracetamol did it's job and I was fast asleep. But kept feeling the chills through the night.

The next day I woke up with uneasiness and nausea. Made breakfast just because I had to take another paracetamol. I could barely eat! So I switched to liquid diet from that day and continued till the 6th day i.e. till the time the nausea lasted. In the mornings I would have some health drink. Afternoons would mean heavy soup. In the evening I would have some tea or coffee and at night, it would either be over boiled rice or daal.

Also continued the antibiotics for 7 days straight. 

Since I was in denial, I also avoided the few times I had trouble breathing on the first 3-4 days. But it wasn't alarming enough to raise a red flag of needing oxygen cylinders. The breathing problem mainly occurred during the night, or when I was doing some fast paced activity like washing clothes, or cooking. But now when I look at my social media feed, I thank my stars that I didn't have a condition where I needed oxygen cylinders.

On the 12th/13th day, all of a sudden I got the soury smell of a pickle I was taking out. And that was it. I tried smelling other things, with the excitement. But nothing!

And this state continued till the 19th day! I would get weird smells once in a while but not the complete smell of anything. For example, I would get the smell of some chemical from the shampoo I use but it wasn't the exact smell which I normally get from the shampoo. I really don't know how this Covid virus blocks out certain smells. Or may be it was just me. Because I normally have a heightened sense of smell, taste, sound and sight!

And on around the 23rd day when I finally got my complete smell back, trust me, you can never feel so happy to be able to smell your own poop!

Throughout the battle, the most important part was to keep hydrating myself so that the fluids flush out as much as unwanted bacteria and virus from the body. The second most important thing was to keep eating or having liquid diet so that the medicines would work properly. And what I felt, kept my breathing problem in check, was the repeated number of Karvol infused steam inhaling. I was doing it mainly because I already have a problem of Sinus and Migrain which keeps blocking my nose.

Though I know I can donate my plasma, I'm scared to go out to a hospital due to the fear of getting infected with a stronger strain of the virus. 

I really hope everyone reading this is safe and healthy, but just in case you are infected and would like to ask me anything, please drop a comment below and I would try to help you out.