Pandemia times
Introduction.
At the beginning of our medical career we have many desires and with the orientation of helping others, healing and saving lives, but it does not come with warning and suddenly there are situations in which they abruptly generate changes such as the one we are living at the moment,Confused times these days, pandemic times, and a new virus has put us all our world upside down.
This virus, called Sars-Cov-2, whose disease is known as COVID-19, has made us dangerous and we avoid contact as hugs, kisses, love, and instead it tells us to maintain distance and isolation, butIt is accompanied by another virus that is known as fear.
Now you have to stay at home, it doesn’t matter if you are very young, old or vulnerable you must remain confined and look at the day and night behind the window, now the contact hugs and kisses became danger, visits and meetings are prohibited, it is the only way to counteract the virus.
Developing.
Thus, holidays at home begin, remember that our home is the safest place where we can be, share with the family, having appointments with ourselves in places of the house, respecting distance and confinement.
Since childhood they taught us that humanity has gone through terrible wars throughout history, but the one we deal with today is invisible, it has been called King Virus because it has a crown in its name, we do not see it, but it is highly contagious and manysometimes it can be lethal destroying entire families.
As every war knows age, race, sex or social status, it is simply around us which forces us to a new adaptation, with new protocols and procedures that make you use different and necessary weapons becoming unrecognizable outside using EPI (protection equipmentindividual) and masks that if you do not do you are helpless and exposed.
With regard to the mask that article so subtle and powerful of course if you use it correctly that they now live with us, in our homes, on our tables, at first it cost us to accept them, and now there are a variety of forms designs and adapted for the entire public,And it does not matter how you use it below the nose, hanging from the head or ears or as an ornament in the neck or if you withdraw it before speaking, here the important thing is not to learn to use them, but to carry them, becauseAs my neighbor said "something will do us".
Often, there is no choice but to go to battle, to fulfill the duty, our day to day is very complicated, I look with protective clothing and the mask, trusting my own health, sometimes I feel exhausted, but stillThere is a lot of fight and it is necessary to continue.
Each projection of guard, for me and for many professionals is day 1, the first day we count on a possible contagion, we go through the halls, we look for opportunities to protect and take care of the life of those who arrive in search of our help, we analyze our interventionAnd that of the team, we thought about what we did well and what we may have to improve.
But there everything does not end at the end of the day you retire with the question, will I have infected me?, And I get home I do an exhaustive disinfection protocol, trying to minimize the risk, using security means, but still then I’m fearing for my family.
My still little children who expect my arrival and although it seems rejection I must keep away and tell them no, to what was previously undeniable, a hug, a kiss, a sample of love, because it is the only option, how difficult it is for everyone.
However, what was so afraid of, one night I heard an abnormal cough in my mother. It was not sporadic cough as for reaction to cold or dust. It was a dry cough, almost suffocating followed by a worrying dizziness and weakness, because it is true, the “coronavirus” icing was infected.
At that time you realize that your effort, that your rigorous disinfection protocol that your security measures were not enough, and it is not only the fear that accompanies you there are also the doubt and guilt of thinking that you are the reason forher illness.
From that episode they have only followed days of insomnia in my house, confined with her becoming more than her daughter her caregiver, watching her symptoms, but above all her breathing that does not go out, now oxygen dependent with a device that now seems part ofHis face, administering his medication, in the room in which we are confined from the place where I am now writing.
conclusion.
Taking care of a patient is very difficult, I do the best I can, I felt the defeat about me, she felt tired with her dull voice told me that it was fine, I repeated you, do not give up, we still have a lot of time and moments to share,Memories to strengthen, we were constant, disciplined, we take care of ourselves.
Today we continue here, we feel different, even with fear of the unknown, but brave, and the only thing I think that in these times of pandemia it is necessary to change and value our efforts, and that nobody is saved alone, we have to help each other among all.
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