Jul
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Goddamn you Corona · 11:12am Jul 14th, 2020
This is it huh? Just got a report from a police officer, and yeah... finally... from 78,572 total Corona cases in Indonesia, my brother is one of them. What could have been worse? Will I die or back to normal? Or will my brother cured from the virus? Or will we both die? God help us. He's infected but without showing any symptoms. I still remember when the hospital took me to where my brother is currently been isolated. I could still remember the tears in his eyes as he tried to reach and hug me. Of course, I was in a wheelchair, and I just couldn't see him like that. First my parents, and me, and now him? Will I lost everything? I don't know. 2020 has been the worst year I've lived in.
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TasteDaRainbow · 121 views
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Stay strong, dude. There is always hope.
Oh god. Stay strong.
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Hopefully. You know, I couldn't feel any emotions right now. I didn't cry, smile, happy, sad, heck, I don't even know what that meant to me anymore.
He'll make it through this.
Yeah. 2020 is the worst. I try to make a fresh start, but COVID-19 had other plans. >:c
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Stay strong and focus Taste. Do not panic and listen carefully.
Covid-19's severity is on case-by-case basis. We won't know how each person responses to it until we see the symptoms. In your brother's case, he's in low risk group (young, healthy people), and the fact that he hasn't shown symptoms could be the indication that his body is pretty resistant against Covid-19. So do not worry too much about him.
In your case however, it's very dangerous because you're undergoing cancer treatment and that may weaken your immune system, making you very susceptible to Covid-19. The important thing to do right now is to test yourself of it during the next few days, which I assume your doctors are probably already doing. However, understand that test may not be accurate as it may give false negative when the virus in your body is still very low (early in the infection). So, even if your test returns negative, request your doctor to repeat the test again 2-3 days later for several times until you're absolutely sure you haven't got it. There is still a chance that your brother hasn't infected you yet so keep your hope up, but be cautious.
In the case you get Covid-19, discuss with your doctor right away whether you should keep your cancer treatment on hold for now to prevent it from weakening your immune system. Postponing cancer treatment should be considered on case-by-case basis, so talk at length with your doctor and listen to his decision. You can also ask him whether you should take some antiviral drug like Remdesivir to combat the virus early in its stage. Although there hasn't been concrete evidence yet of Remdesivir's effectiveness against Covid-19, there are some promising signs in its study and there are recommendations to use it for those in critical conditions and danger group. In your case, it may be worth to take it.
In any case, be strong and positive and follow your doctor's advise. It may not be as bad as it seems, and both you and your brother can still get through it.
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Wow, thanks for lighten up my mood. I haven't thought about it like that, none of my friends here talked to me that way. In fact, they're scared of being infected too and stopped visiting until they know that I haven't infected yet. Thank you so much though, you really know how to make me smile a bit.
You're welcome my friend. Most of the time in a crisis, the best way is to have clear options put before us and have an idea of what we should/could do, then we won't fall into panic and disarray. Stay strong.