A Long Overdue Meeting : Covid Story I

It’s been exactly two years,on March 2020, since the first day we received the news that the doctor was having extremely close contact with a covid patient in Queen Square without any single protections. Doing intubation on a tested positive patient.

Since that day, life has never been the same. Sending him to hospital everyday had become constant battle dealing with worry and anxiety.

We fear what we don’t know. From there, I read almost everything about this. People experiences, articles, blogposts, stories, newspapers, journals, anything. It seemed like feeding my mind with more worries. The more I read, the more I overthink. But, it was much better than being left in the dark.

Been thinking about many plans just in case something happened.

Moved back here, the battle was getting tougher. By the time we arrived here, cases were on the peak. He worked as soon as we settled down.

It felt like repeating the cycle on previous March.

Dealing with covid patients daily and intensely especially during the wave at the beginning and on the middle of last year, from morning to late night, weekdays and weekend, to say he was exhausted was totally understatement.

Countless time of having close contact be it from the patients, colleagues, or during surgeries where 8 out of 10 surgery crews got it. Being in the same room with someone (who turned to be) positive without masks during break. Endless swab tests everytime we got the news, yet, we still missed it.

Every time it came back negative, I wondered for how much longer we could escape it.

The wave at the beginning of this year might be not as bad as last year, yet, for the past three months, the amount of test results we collected topped those of what we had last year.

He got more schedules than before to cover many residents or colleagues that got sick daily and weekly. Not only weekdays but also weekend.

No amount of incentives given could pay the battle those healthcare workers who deals with covid daily face​.
(not all healthcare workers deal with covid patients).

I remembered one of the quote from my readings,
“At certain point, covid will arrive at your doorstep, it’s just a matter of when”.