Mama Got Covid

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We recently found out that my mom was tested positive for Covid-19. I am a nurse, living and working in the UK. I have been taking care of covid-positive patients since the start of pandemic as a frontliner. I've had undergone a total of three isolations myself because of close contact and exposure to Covid. I've seen and witnessed people got affected by Covid from all walks of life, directly and indirectly. It's funny but despite all these experiences and familiarisation with the virus, I never thought that Covid-19 would also hit our family hard by infecting one of the most important figure in our household - our mother. 

My family is in the Philippines. Mama wasn't feeling well four days ago and had a spike of temperature. She had herself checked and swabbed. When the results came, she turned out positive for Covid. The next morning, mom was sent to a quarantine facility for monitoring and isolation. Other members of my family started their 14 day home quarantine. 

As of this writing, it is Day 1 of my family's isolation at home and my mom's Day 4 fight against Covid with mild symptoms, despite her co-morbidities - to which I am thankful for.

This is a very challenging time for all of us and my mind is currently NOT entertaining possibilities about what might happen during the course of this whole situation. I am just grateful that mama is okay at the moment and doesn't have any breathing difficulties. I know that it is very early to tell but I don't want to think beyond the fact that everyone in my family, especially my mother is presently doing alright. 

I would like to believe that all this happens for a reason - it gives me comfort and assurance thinking and believing that whatever is happening right now is all for a greater purpose. Though my faith is fully and undoubtedly in HIM, please allow me to be selfish to pray for my loved ones to be spared.

I sure hope that the reign of the virus will soon be over, not just in my family's but in everyone's lives. There has been enough sufferings and loss and misery. The pandemic has certainly taught us so many things and made us value the things we always take for granted.

 

I hope that corona virus had already proven its' point and leave the world alone, for good.





"God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging."

Psalm 46:1-3



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