Reflections

  CORONAVIRUS : The Recovery Path A CoMorbidity Patient’s Perspective   This is the 2 nd and concluding part of my experiences with Covid19 on a first-person basis. In this path I outline my experiences as a recovering patient. This is my personal account, and not meant to be   extrapolatable – in other words, learn from this, but do not assume symptoms or approach or diet for yourself without proper medical guidance. This is a serious issue – and my objective is to give those who are unaware of the reality of this disease an opportunity to read about a firstperson patient’s experience.   Further, please note that my experience is firstly of borderline Coronavirus, and is that of a person with CoMorbities – Diabetes {4 years}, Asthma {16 years} and Hypertension {24 years} in a background of Cervical Spondylosis {14 Years} and minor infarcts {10 years} {due to BP} in my brain. I do not know of the technicalities, though am a Biology Grad, and deeply passion...

  CORONA EXPERIENCE FOR A COMORBIDITY PATIENT   A lot has been said and written on Corona – but very little has been brought to my attention at least as to the experience of a real patient of Corona who has other chronic illnesses. This writeup is intended as a small contribution in that line – I hope that others can read this and avoid the mistakes I made. My medical history is that of Diastolic Hypertension, Asthma and Diabetes. All three are in full control, with not one episode of a major attack or problematic reading in any disease for at least 1-2 years.   THE BEGINNING For me – the beginning was benign, almost worthy of ignoring totally. Mistake numero uno – if you have a chronic illness among the above, you cannot ignore even the tiny   signs. It started with an Acid Reflux {was it related to Corona – I do not know; I am stating exactly what happened between August 9 th and September 7 th . As I said, it was an Acid Reflux, and a damned strong ...

THE NEW NORMAL We are in the middle of a complete nationwide shutdown, now in its 26 th day… with around 16 more days to go. Shops, establishments, companies, etc – all are in minimal or shutdown mode. Economic Activity is at a complete standstill; but there will be a day when things will re-start, when life will begin crawling back to normal. With regard to that, a lot of thoughts, facts and/or factoids are being shared by all. In the same line, here is my analysis of The Coming Days for us, Indians. THE BACKDROP What will happen will essentially depend on the runup to the event itself, the disease outbreak. If you will recall, we were going through a rather challenging phase on the economic front as a nation, with a plethora of problems to deal with. Clearly, they aren’t going away; this needs to be kept in mind. The going wasn’t great to start with; and on top of that, we have this outbreak. So, prima facie, things look rather tough – but there is more to the story....