MY COVID JOURNEY (
PART I) …….. Dr. Digambar Naik
Lessons learnt
With more than 6 months of regular
learning, analysing, training and teaching I was so much confident of carrying
on with my OPD, hospital practice as well as routine life. Complete PPE was my
way of working in the OPD and hospital set up.
Besides this I carried on primary prevention with medication
like HCQ, Ivermectin, Zinc, Vitamin C,
Vitamin D along with all necessary personal and social precautions. We
do not know how mistakes happen, like an accident on the road. Me and my wife
were on a Sunday drive together. Suddenly one of her very close friend’s
daughter phones her up saying, my mother has been detected to be suffering from
Cancer of ovary with secondary’s in lung. She further requested her that they
want an opinion from me. We were very close to their house.
It was but natural that I had the request from my wife to
drop in and quickly have a look at the report. This would also mean a friendly
visit too. We quickly dropped in and sat down, started going through the
report, answered a volley of questions and came out of the house. But this time
we were surrounded by 8 relatives, all without masks or any social distancing,
practically gearing us to get answers for their queries. We had no escape. It
is only when we came out, did we realise the mistake we had done after being
extra careful for the last 6 months. I was very conscious of this and on the 5th
day when I had a mild fever, I suspected and we both went for the Covid Antigen
Test and started the full mild case treatment even without waiting for the
report of the test. Lo, madam was positive and my report came negative. Both of
us continued with the treatment part, my fever was settling. We both
quarantined ourselves and were very comfortable.
It was 8th day of fever, 13th day of
exposure around 8 pm I suddenly noticed mild breathlessness and the SPO2 which
was being properly monitored was 85. Having kept oxygenator ready at home, I immediately
connected myself to the oxygenator, but could realise that my oxygen
requirement was gradually rising. I rang up my friend physician Oscar and got
myself shifted to the Healthway hospital where CT Scan showed Covid
infiltration with CT score of 6/25.
Lessons
learnt:
1. Accidents happen inspite of the best care.
2. The claims of the
preventive drugs used and other measures need to be revised
3. I feel people have been drugging themselves unnecessary.
4. The word “Immunity” has been too much exploited by the
market with piles of fake products and businesses.
Dr. Digambar Naik
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