As we near the close of January and given my sick for another 2 weeks more…we are slowly getting to February, 2021. January to me seems like a long month, when you’re stuck at home and can’t go anywhere!! No traveling as its still under restriction and under lock down. I know the feeling of some people that feel that they are isolated, because it can be very lonely. I was lucky that my saviour was my honey bun and he was able to go outside, but we couldn’t go anywhere, so we made do with what we have. He’s not really a telly watcher, so we would take turns watching telly, one day it would be his choice (mostly documentaries, non fiction stuff) which is not my cup of tea.. but I did like some of the things we watched when it was his turn. And of course, he said I could watch my shows when he was at work! LOL!
This picture on the right is what my hubby took just outside our house…its on the big green. It was a few days after I got home that it snowed. In all honesty I really can’t remember how cold it was. As I am writing this, I still can’t remember how cold it was…it might have been really cold according to this picture. As the days went by it was nothing exciting to mention and it was just me trying to get my body to get better. Moving around, my walking pace is from the living room (where I lived mostly) and the bathroom, and in the backyard. I walked really slow as well can’t run yet. In the days, my walking improved slightly – walking around 2x around, sat down out of breath, then doing it again… this is done repetitiously and each time, increase from 2 + 1…and so on. Eventually, I would venture out to walk from the door to the sidewalk, now that was a long walk!! I walked out from my doorstep, to the end of my driveway and I panicked, and turn around as gasping for breath. It was scary, but exciting, it felt good, but the body told me…nope not yet, but you can walk from the door to the end of the driveway and back. No shop run yet… 😛
In continuance from the previous post… lets move a few weeks after I got home hospital and trying to get back to normal. While I was recovering at home, hubby was back to work full time and when he gets home, he took care of me…he cooked dinner, did the washing of the dishes and even the laundry! I was told not to do anything at all…when I did try oh my…my energy was none existant! Just to do laundry, walking and … I would feel like dying! And I feel bad and I apologise to hubby as I know he was still recovering himself too! I felt so bad. But, he was a champ!! Love him to bits!
In the meantime, I had to send over the sick note to my work, my doctor gave me 2 weeks off sick, then after that he would give me another 2 weeks off. So for the Month of January 2021, I was home recovering. My AM sent over a bunch of flowers when I was in Hospital and it was sent to the house, as you couldn’t get anything delivered or even to visit. I was thankful and gave him a call, it was a nice gestures, of course, I was not the only one who had covid at my work place, there were more people that had it; some not so bad as me, others just as the same as I was and they were not that bad. So, I am thankful for all the medical staff, hubby, family, friends keeping in touch. I do not wish for anyone to go thru what I went through myself, but reading from articles especially social media, it upset me to the core. I would be so angry, I would curse those people hope that they get it themselves!! But, karma will be better and so I let it be.
The whole of January was nothing really exciting happening, just that I stayed home (I was really pulling my hair) as I could not do anything without gasping for breath!! But I was determine to get too where I was before covid. It was really a very slow process to the road of recovery. Walking around the house and my next fun venture was walking around the backyard. Watched lots of telly, NETFLIX is a saviour that I missed when they came out. Also watching You Tube, lots of great vlogs of travelling, which I miss very much. I love watching this particular blogger – BecomingFilipino – its about a Canadian, who lives in the Philippines and he travels all around the islands! There are approximately 7200 islands in the Philippines and I think he only just scratch the surface. So that was my adventure in January.
Hubby just reminded me that when I was home a few days later, it snowed!! He took a picture of it from outside our house and it was really cold and all white! I really did not remember! He showed me the picture he took and it really looked cold. One of the things with getting covid, is memory loss! I still have a hard time remember things, and I would get really upset. You can forget stuff, but this is different. I don’t like it but you have to work hard to be able to return normal… or what is normal?
Hello again everyone!d Let keep going with what happen after I got home from hospital. When I was released from hospital, I had medication to take along with my high blood pressure pills. I was given instructions and an oximeter that connected to the hospital until they totally release me. I had so much pills to remember when to take, so I put them all together to take daily (includes any supplements that I was taking). I had to take Warfarin, its for your blood not to clot (while in hospital, it was an injection to my tummy) and record my oximeter daily. Let’s just say that when I arrived home, I had no energy at all to walk a marathon! LOL!
My body was weak and I had to walk slow or else I would ran out of breath by walking few paces! At first, I had to go upstair for the loo and out bedroom, so to me that help me a lot. Up and down…and if anyone was in a hurry, I would let them go first… I basically was recuperating at home and walking around the living room, backyard and up and down the stairs. It was agonisingly slow as every time I try to push myself, I would just gasp for air, but my blood oxygen would be at around 91-92% which the medical staff said it was good, but don’t try to run before you can walk. I really had to start over just to get me back and I had been off work since New Year Eve 2020. I was still under medical care and they were keeping track. I would get a phone call if my level went down below 90%. I didn’t know that it went that low so I had to let them know what I was doing to get it down. So, I really had to be taking it easy and do it slow. I am very impatient, but if I wanted NOT to go back to hospital and get back to work, I needed to listen to the medical staff and my husband 😛 he would not be happy when I tell him what I was doing. So, I did take heed of everyone.
