Coronavirus Chronicles: My Daughter Shares Her Symptoms and Recovery

Hello, what's up everyone today? You will meet my

daughter

Annie, she is 18 years old and in high school and two weeks ago she contracted

symptoms

of the corona virus and that put our family in a tailspin. She was a little crazy, especially for me emotionally and we treated her at home and now she is better and recovered, so I thought it would be great to share her story with you. I'm Risa, where Motor, your host, is looking at modern aging, where we chat about innovative and holistic ways. To optimize our health and well-being as we age, you can subscribe by clicking the red button below with that little bell next to it to be sure you'll be notified every time a new episode is uploaded.

You can also sign up to our email list by visiting our website at this modern and aged dot com, so my husband and I adopted Annie two and a half years ago, when she was only 15, and all that, you know , adopting a teenager in middle age is definitely reserved for another episode, happy to share that story, but today we want to talk about how Annie showed signs of the corona virus, what she went through, what was her treatment plan at home, how we are helping her with her

recovery

and hoping that it will really help her. you if you are dealing with the same issues this pandemic is serious and should be taken seriously the problem was we couldn't test you because your

symptoms

are not serious enough so it is a good and bad scenario but now she does.

I'm feeling good and yeah so hopefully hearing her story can help you so she look at what happened that day you came home sick. Well he was definitely trying to make me think it wasn't Corona, I was tired because I had a concert the night before so I was just making excuses but I definitely wasn't feeling very well because I had a little fever and I came home and told them My parents and my mom got a little scared, she got scared, so yeah. Well, sure, okay, so when I got scared I didn't get scared with you, although no, no, because of the situation, I mean, yeah, but did you understand why she was?

Yeah, sure, I mean, it was really scary for me. I guess because it just seems like it. really unreal, what were your real symptoms at that time? um well, I had a headache, my friend was a little sore, it wasn't like they were in real pain, it was like I wasn't comfortable in my skin, I guess, and you had a fever and I had a fever and then you came home and you went to bed. I think I had it for two days, yeah, I don't think so, and then you didn't have much of an appetite during that time.

No, I went to bed pretty early. that same day and I woke up late in the afternoon and ate I think a piece of bread but that was it, I really had no appetite and then you were in bed, your fever went down and you were like on a river. Oh my god, it's really embarrassing, but I think I first thought to myself that I couldn't sleep very well because of the same body pain and discomfort, so I was tossing and turning in bed and around 7:00 AM. m. in the morning. I got a little comfortable and it was warm and I thought, well, I'm going to let my friend sweat and the next time I woke up it looked like I had dropped a thousand glasses of water on the bed. like she was soaked, but you broke her fever, I mean, two days I did it and then she never came back, so luckily I think it's because of her age and her immunity, you know she was part of that 80% and then you had a persistent cough after that yeah the dry cough yeah a little bit um well my mom always pushes me to drink a lot of water yeah and if I don't want to ah it just doesn't taste like anything but she always pushes me to drink and so um I think that definitely helped a lot with the cough and just recovering and then during that time when you had a fever I tried to call and get you tested and I called three, one and I called urgent care. and I called the doctor and no one wanted to do the test because by that time his fever had gone down even though he had COFF and he had other symptoms that didn't matter, they only said that they reserved it for severe cases so that Unfortunately, they never we tested him, although now I'm curious to give you an antibody test to see if you have the antibodies, in which case it might help people who have them now, but how did you do it?

I feel emotionally because you were one of the first people you met who was right, it sure was very strange. I have a very active life outside the home. I leave every morning around 5:00 to 6:00 in the morning and return home around 9:00 pm. so I'm away from home all the time and it was really strange being home and I felt like I wasn't supposed to be here, I was supposed to be somewhere else and I felt a little uncomfortable, plus I was quarantined in my room, so I'm still a change from all over the city to my room in your tea rooms in New York City or prismo, well, not so small, well, okay, small, yes, yes, that's true, so we quarantined her in a room and she wasn't allowed to leave her room, so you didn't leave, she didn't leave a room for about four days, give or take, five five, oh, I'm sorry, but you have to have your own bathroom, but you had Yes, which was really important, very good, I felt a little lonely, but yes, emotionally speaking, it was difficult because, since I'm outside all the time, I have friends and people that I like see.

I talk a lot and I would love to. talking to people and communicating and inside my room I felt like I wasn't even allowed to talk to my parents even because my mom came in the room and we didn't even like that we barely talked, she came with masks and gloves. It was strange and I was really alone so it was very difficult but you survived but I guess just when Annie was getting better my husband started coughing and that's when I got a little worried because the coffee was gone. he's gone and he doesn't have a cough so that was the other kind of indication that she was getting sick and now she's on day 13 of her quarantine.

Eventually he started getting a lot sicker with fever and fever on and off, headache, cough and then he was also having issues like where he felt his kidneys were he didn't really eat much for the last two weeks so I hope he can talk to us one more time. once I get out of quarantine, which soon everything will be fine just because. Her fever went down two days ago, so we are monitoring everything carefully, so what would you say to the parents? I mean, in all the circumstances, they had a mild case, very grateful, but what helped them in terms of the whole treatment, I mean, I know.

Being in quarantine was very difficult, right, but do you feel that it was important and worth it? mmm certainly my mom was amazing and very grateful her meals are fantastic so I think she has mentioned it in many videos before the meal It was very important I mean she made sure I had things to drink in liquid form of some kind way, but that could eliminate them. I think it was very important for her to be isolated, even though it was difficult and I had things I liked in my room. entertain myself like Netflix, yes, but it was very important, so I guess parents don't panic, but also try to keep their distance so that when their children want to hug them they don't feel bad for not hugging them because this one had this one. baby this one counted the days when I was counting the days but yeah all we can say is make sure you call your doctor you know your experience our experiences our experience they are all bio individual it will affect this disease it affects to the people. different, but what we hope to see is that you know that you can recover and be fine after a few days, you know, and some people may have it more severe, but the important thing is to do social distancing and isolation so that you don't make others sick. family members that live with you and that's how we were able to do it in an apartment, which normally you would think would be impossible and I was just counting the days to get it but so far so good yeah but.

I've also been super careful about washing my hands, keeping my distance, putting on my mask if I'm around them, even with my husband, we haven't been in the same room for the last 13 days if he comes in, you know? He now he has left his room and when he does he goes to the kitchen. I leave the kitchen and we text and Skype a lot even in the apartment. Something small is fine. I wasn't that little. Well, something medium is that when I left. I was in quarantine and towards my days where I felt much better throughout the house we had wipes that I had to use specifically because just because you feel better doesn't mean you can't change, it's contagious thank you.

So let's say you go into the kitchen and you grab a cup or you open it but it's the sink and you touch it, so like if someone else touches this thing, they'll grab it, so if you have a little towel in the sink and you're the only one touching the towel and you put it aside, then it would be much better if everyone had their own towels, their own cutlery, their own everything and no one touched anyone's things just to make things easier, we were washing our hands, sanitizing and yeah, which one. It was also a challenge for our pet, but for our little dog Mimi Mimi, so if you have any questions or better yet, if you have any suggestions on how to treat her at home, please put them in the comments section below.

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