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Five months have passed since the COVID-19 pandemic hit Manitoba, creating fear, uncertainty and a consistent and resounding call from the government to stay safe. Since then, more than 800 people have COVID-19 in the province; more than 550 have recovered, but there have been 12 deaths.
Four Manitoba residents who came out of the other side of the virus shared with Free Press what their lives are like now. COVID-19 has no borders: it attacks all ages, origins and ethnicities. The reports and results of the disease are equally varied.
A 29-year-old boy spent time in an intensive care bed at Grace Hospital. A 35-year-old man said he had a worse experience with the flu. A 66-year-old man who went into a medically induced coma; a 53-year-old woguy had little to worry about about her own physical condition, but worried about those around her.
All they had in common was to get through the air in the days leading up to their illness.
Everyone shares the same message: COVID-19 is real, and is to follow public fitness protocols to ensure everyone’s safety.
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Ryan Slobodesky, store manager at Multicrete Systems, began to feel in poor health thirteen days after returning from Las Vegas in March.
Slobodesky, a healthy manager of a 29-year-old production workshop in Las Vegas in March, returned home earlier than expected when the COVID-19 news spread.
He felt until his thirteenth day back home.
“It’s around six o’clock in the afternoon when he hit me like a brick bag,” he said.
His knees hurt. He began to feel weak. He had a headache, his eyes hurt if he looked left or right, and he had a fever. He tried, but it was negative.
“I felt incredibly uncomfortable,” he says. “Now I think, “What’s wrong with me?”
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“It’s a little revealing. I’m a young man and I think I’m invincible until something like this happens,” Slobodesky said.
He stayed home and got sicker and started having trouble breathing. The fluid fills his lungs. At one point, she videotaped her sister, who saw her go from pale to yellow. He called an ambulance and Slobodesk and ended up at Grace Hospital.
“My moment check at this time hasn’t come back yet, so they weren’t sure,” he said. “I’m more of an intentional case.”
The nurses drew blood three times a day. He took oxygen and a nutrition of nutrients and antibiotics. He moved to the intensive care unit, where doctors followed him every hour.
The moment the check was positive again. Within days, his breathing began to normalize and he got rid of oxygen. He spent a week in the hospital and sent home on a stretcher and was told to wait 24 hours after his symptoms disappeared before going public. He waited a week.
“I was in poor health for a long time, so once I got the house, I was motivated to do something I couldn’t before, like cleaning my house,” says Slobodesky. “I got tired incredibly fast. I tried to wash some clothes in the basement, and I went up the stairs and lost my breath instantly.”
Now it feels “normal,” but his lung capacity is what he used to be.
“I feel tired a little faster than usual,” he says. “It’s a little revealing. I’m a young man, and I think I’m invincible until something like this happens. It opens your eyes to: “You know what? Anything can happen. “”
He’s back in the paintings and he’s looking to have a sense of generality. At least one generalized pandemic.
And appreciate life.
“(COVID-19) taught me to enjoy my life a little more and not be as serious as IArray,” he said, adding that he seeks to be less addicted to work.
He is relieved that his 60-year-old mother has contracted the virus, as the threat appears to increase with age.
“If my mom had, it would have had another result,” she says.
“People don’t treat it now,” he says. In any case, other people are curious to know their experience. But at first, other people got away. Others understood that I wasn’t going to make them sick, but they kept a proper distance.
“I don’t blame the way they reacted,” he said. “It’s new to everyone.”
And he “can’t say enough” about Grace Hospital that helped him during the test.