H1N1 Updates, Day 5
I am out !!! I am free !!!…I’ll be back soon…I made it out alive…again…
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H1N1 Updates, Day 4
Taking first steps outside
Yesterday late night I have experienced some psychological tension; being anxious, claustrophobic and with couple more of unclear behaviours. Im not sure if it’s due to the side effects of the Tamiflu or my own reaction to 4 days of living on a bed. Two new h1n1 infected people were added in our room, bringing up the total number to 5 patients sharing the same tiny space. Anyway, as I promised, I am posting some pictures of this convalescence. Click on more to see the photos.
H1N1 Updates, Day 3
Today one of my roommates left earlier than scheduled while I tested again positive to h1n1. My fever lowered to 37c and I decided to start a bit of physical recovery with 10 minutes of stretching and light gymnastic after each meal. The Italian Consul of Guangdong called me on the phone to check if i was all right. My head is a bit upside down and I often feel dizzy. Apart from that, everything else seems to have slighly improoved…
H1N1 Updates, Day 2
Here i am
I had to take an x-ray to my upper torso yesterday late night, as i understood, in order to check my breathing functions. I get to eat 3 time per day, which consist in white rice (probably the white chinese rice washed with ammoniac), some vegetables (which is so far the healthiest thing i found in my meal) and a portion of chicken in a bath of low quality engine oil (60% of it it’s skin and bones, 20% is oily and fatty juice, so only 20% or less is pure, clean and skinned chicken meat). The actual treatement for the H1N1 alone consists in taking 2 pills per day of TAMIFLU (by Roche): couple of friends of mine are at the moment investigating regarding possible side effects, dangers and benefits of this medicine. The rest of the pills are some sort of chinese antibiotics and vitamins/mieral salts. I just got informed that i cannot receive any visit! No outsider is allowed in this wing. The good news of today is that i feel better. I took some short walks in and out the room when allowed. Cough and runny nose is increased a bit but my fever dropped from 39C to 37.3C. I am still a bit afraid that some new complications will raise, but overall i am more relaxed. I am now sharing the room with other 2 h1n1 infected guys. They are really friendly and one of them can even speak english so he’s helping me out a lot when it comes to talk to doctors. Late in the evening I received some emails with responses about the research on Tamiflu which were yet not clear enough for me to take the drastic decision if to stop taking this suspecious medicine or not. My roommates have a mobile phone with camera so we sneaked out to take some shots of the place!! Will be trying post it here later on.
At Shenzhen, China hospital with H1N1 (SWINE FLU)
My dear readers and friends, I am now laying on an hospital bed, with barely the strenght to write this, I feel my head numb at times and heavy some others. I have high fever, cough, shakings, cold, headhache and some ohers normal flu syntomps multiplied by 4. Im scared, Im in complete isolation and quarantined, cut out from the rest of the world. I can’t make any calls outside china but they may allow me later to use the internet cable for 5 minutes as i told them i would need to send an email to my family to advise them of my conditions. The hospital isn’t really what you can expect from a normal hospital…even I recover from swine flu, i might get infected by another disease during my stay at this dirty place. Nobody speak my language so it’s difficult to communicate with their very poor english and my survival chinese. I have to take about 4 pills every meal. As a plus, I got no money on me so I am being treated with the least care. I have no insurance so I cannt get transferred to a better hospital. Yes I got many friends, but sometimes I dont feel like asking, I’ve asked enough during my travels and I want to be on my own. I dont want to make people worry about me, and by the way the few people I would like to see close to me in moments like this are not here. During this life threatening situations you have the chance to meditate about lfe, death and love. It’s like observing again your entire life from a third eye, really objectively going through all your mistakes, happy moments, sorrow and memories in general, simply being able to judge yourself over your past behaviour. I wouldnt want to alarm anyone, as according to what doctors are saying, it should be all fine, as the number of deaths due to this virus are very low. Anyway considering my bad luck im still really afraid if something happens. I know i should try to stay positive and use my energies to believe in myself and get better soon, but most of the times i get kidnapped by thoughts like “and what if…” “what if this time is really the end?”. I have to say, lately I dared too much, I thought i was invincible, I thought nothing could have killed me, I have been passng by Africa going through malaria as well, and i survived it. I had very little care of myself recently, I was too eager and only concerned of getting to my ideal place and possibly to my ideal woman. I may have found my ideal woman, but I guess now it’s too late. I may have found my ideal place too, but i guess i was again too greedy and looked for a better one. Sometimes if we want too much, we might end up with nothing…