Never have it occured to me that I would be one of the numbers in the daily cases of covid. Let me narrate how it all started.
I am a teacher, as many of you have known. So during this pandemic, we are teaching remotely from home. But I am no superwoman, I couldn't do my best in teaching when my 2 year old is quite a needy 'baby'. So to keep my sanity intact, I decided to send her to her babysitter every teaching day. However you go around this issue, its always a dilemma. Should I or should I not send my baby off. The risk of infection is always there. And we have no control of how everyone else act. It's my mental health versus the safety of my family. Seriously, who can really choose one with confident?
But anyway, Syifa went to her babysitter everyday, since the starts of pandemic. I decided early on its a risk I needed to take to be able to function as a teacher, and as a mom. You know, nothing about the pandemic is normal anymore.
3rd August 2021 was the last day Syifa went to the babysitter. The next day, she got a slight fever. I decided to not send her. I asked the babysitter whether anyone else has got the fever as well. But she said no. So it was only Syifa. I assumed it was ordinary viral fever.
She was having the fever for two whole day. But her temperature was under control by the pcm intake every 6 hours. After her fever went away, my husband started to feel under the weather. Then it was my turn to get it. We still thoughts it was just ordinary fever because the symptoms weren't that bad and we felt better after taking pcm.
Then few days later the babysitter called saying her son has been a closed contact of a positive case. He has gotten the swab test and waiting for the result. The babysitter went to get tested as well at a private clinics. Only then I started to feel doubt. What if the fever we got were the symptoms of covid? By then Syifa was all better but I still felt unwell.
The next day, the babysitter revealed that she's positive. We were numb.What should we do? Then I searched for self test kit seller online. Luckily I found one nearby then she COD'ed the test kit to our home. So my husband and I did the self test. My husband got a solid clear double line. My test was blurred. So I was uncertain. At that point everything just felt real for the first time. We were officially covid'ed.
We booked an appointment for swab test at a private clinics next day. Just my husband and I. Waiting for the results were nerve wrecking. Only after 2 days we got a notification on mysejahtera that we have been confirmed as a positive case.
