MY COVID-19 EXPERIENCE: I tested positive twice.

It took me a lot of courage to publish this post. I had the draft with me but I guess I was too skeptical about it. So enjoy!!

I tested positive twice.

I got admitted into Caleb university and my school actually asked me to take the corona test before I resume. School resumed middle of November and I’m just planning on resuming 2nd week in December. It wasn’t my idea to go to a private university because I see private universities as a glorified school. The rules and everything. Only God knows why, I ended up in a private university. ( everything happened so quick, one minute I got the admission form, the other minute they asked me to resume).

I’ve literally gotten everything I needed for resumption, I just needed to get the COVID 19 test report and resume to school.

I took the COVID 19 test on the 14th of December, 2020. I got to the testing center around 10:00am and then I had to wait for some minutes before taking the test. The test wasn’t that painful but it was just somehow 🤧🙂. I was told the results would be out between 24-48 hours. Perfect. I was prepared for school. I’ve packed all my bags and everything, I was only waiting for the test result. (I’m sorry I had to skip some parts because I don‘t want a lengthy post).

On Wednesday, around 6:00pm, I received the biggest shock of my life. I tested positive. At that moment, I felt like everything inside me died. Like I wasn’t myself at all. I didn’t know what would happen next, everything was just dead and I couldn’t hardly feel myself. I cried, I was weak and I was just confused because I didn’t feel any symptom before so how come?. I was dying so fast and at that point I knew I had to open up to people. I told parents, then I spoke with my doctor. She actually asked me to take hot water and lime. She also said I should stop taking cold water and I was just like “warm water in this weather, haba 😂😂”. Then I started receiving phone calls from family members, and everyone was saying “calm down, you’ll retake the test. Don’t cry, crying won’t solve the matter”. I was like “ it’s like this people don’t understand the way I feel at all😂, which one is calm down, if they come and carry me to isolation center, that’s how you people will be saying calm down. Calm wetin 😂😂😂. I’m too young to go through this. I’ve been stressed out already, I’m not ready for this”.

I had to look for another alternative because I really wanted to resume to school. So I was told to retake the test because this Nigerian Government ehn, you can never trust them.

I was really down and disappointed.

I was able to get the NIMR telephone line the next day. I called them and explained everything to them because I wasn’t feeling any symptoms. I’m perfectly okay. The man suggested that I come the next day to take the test, that’s on Friday.

So I went to the testing center to retake the test on Friday. I was told the results will be out on Monday, so I waited till Monday and again the I tested positive. I cried my eyes out.

At that point, I wanted to take a break from social media but I knew I was only going to hurt myself if I do so. I told some of my close friends about what I was going through and they really supported me during that period. I’m very emotional so basically I couldn’t sleep at night. Each time I try to get my mind off it, I always find myself thinking about it. So I had this wake up at night and cry your eyes out routine.

My Valedictory Service was scheduled for the 17th of December and I had to attend the program. So I made some calls and I was told I could attend the program since I’m not contagious so there’s no way I could possibly infect others. ( That’s the way they put it, but I feel like they’re just trying to cover up their mistakes because obviously they gave me a wrong result 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️).

I had to lie to my best friend because she was really worried about me and I just wanted her mind to be at rest. (If you’re reading this which I’m sure of, I’m sorry I had to lie to you. Fikky,I just wanted you to be happy. I feel guilty honestly.)

I feel so emotional typing this 🥲😔😔

The experience wasn’t a good one at all. I cried for days coupled with the fact that I was having issues with a very close of mine. I was mentally and emotionally sick. . I had sleepless nights, I cried for days but then I decided to make myself happy more reason why I invested most of my time in my blog.

I took hot water, herbs , Vitamin C, multivitamins, antibiotics. I was supposed to take my drugs for about 10 days but I stopped on the 5th day because I started reacting to the drugs and I couldn’t just cope with the skin reactions.

I couldn’t take anything cold, I had to reduce fried stuffs and I felt like my life was restricted during that period. It wasn’t easy at all.

I was emotionally sick. I just lost connection with my friends. I couldn’t reply their messages. I just wanted to push everyone away from me. Everyone noticed but I couldn’t just open up to all of them. I was trying to act cool. The funniest thing is that I wasn’t sad because I tested positive. I was sad because I couldn’t resume to school and for goodness sake I wasn’t exhibiting any symptoms of Corona virus. (Well maybe i was sad because I tested negative. Everything is even tiring🤧😂). For some awkward reason, I felt like that result wasn’t mine because non of my family members exhibited any symptom of COVID 19, they’re perfectly fine.

So, I took the test after some weeks and the good news is that I TESTED NEGATIVE.

Somehow, I fell like God has a hand in it because I was doing fine. I isolated myself for some days but at some point I started going out and non of those I came in contact with tested positive.

During that period, l learnt some lessons which I highlighted below:

• Sometimes you need bad things to inspire you to change and grow.

• Everything happens for a reason. That reason causes change. Sometimes it hurts, sometimes it’s hard but in the end it’s all for the best.

I’m still trying in the process of healing. I’m still trying to get back on my feet but then I’m getting better. I haven’t recovered fully but soon I’ll be perfectly fine.( like emotionally 🙃🙂😉)

Corona Virus is real. Please stay safe and make use of your nose masks.

Spreading love and light.

XOXO❤️❤️.