Coronavirus: 'I'm out of hospital, but I have to remember to breathe'
Breathing is perhaps the most natural of reflexes. Who has to remember to breathe?
Ria started to show symptoms of Covid-19 while in hospital, where she had been admitted for an operation. Seven years ago, she was diagnosed with a rare condition which makes swallowing difficult and means she often regurgitates solids. The surgery was designed to help her manage this oesophageal disease, called achalasia.Her admission to hospital was supposed to be routine. But while recovering there she began to struggle with her breathing. She then developed a temperature.
"My room was now cordoned off and the rest of the ward evacuated," she wrote."I closed down an entire ward?! I miss my family so much. With Covid-19 tests so limited I felt ashamed I was being given a swab so quickly when there are others who were more likely to have it. I was certain I was clear. I followed all guidelines."As her condition deteriorated, and she required more oxygen, she was transferred to one of London's major Covid-19 treatment centres.
"Things went from bad to worse - taking a breath became as hard as climbing a mountain," she wrote on Facebook."I could see the more and more concerned looks on the faces of the many heroes treating me. More and more doctors looking in, murmuring to each other - observations taken every minute and scrutinised incessantly. Scary, uncertainty, unnerving, so many feelings, so many thoughts in my head, questions I was scared to hear the answers to.
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