St. Luke’s Medical Center Ob-Gyn Dr. Grace Caras-Torres revealed in a Facebook post that she is positive of covid-19.
The OB-Gyn doc said she wants the public to know straight from the horse’s mouth rather from gossip.
“Ako si #PH194. Mabuti nang sakin nyo direktang malaman, kesa sa tsismis. Hindi ko akalaing tatamaan ako agad,” Dr. Torres wrote.
Dr. Torres remarked that the battle against covid-19 has just started and she was the first to become the casualty. She described the symptoms she felt in the beginning and did not suspect it was covid-19.
“Nagsisimula pa lang ang gyera nun, casualty na ako. Akala ko chikungunya lang. High grade fevers na paulit- ulit. Kakaibang sakit ng ulo at katawan. Hindi makakain.”
Dr. Torres said it only sunk in to her that it was covid-19 after her colleague whom she worked with in an operation exhibited the same symptoms.
“Saka lang nag-sink in sakin na posibleng Covid nga ito nung malaman kong may symptoms din yung kasama kong mag-opera ilang araw nang nakalipas.
The first thing that came to her mind was her family, her kid and parents who are seniors. She cried fearing for the worst she exposed them to the virus unknowingly.
“Diyos ko po, una kong naisip ang pamilya ko: ang anak kong 4yo, ang parents kong seniors. Inexpose ko sila, ang iyak ko noon. Di bale nang ako, wag lang sila.”
What she did was locked herself inside her bedroom, celebrated her birthday in a quarantine with a deadly disease and grateful that she reached the age of 42.
“Nagkulong na ako sa kwarto. Nag-birthday akong nakaquarantine at may sakit na nakamamatay. Buti pala umabot pa ako ng 42.”
Dr. Torres said she had no other choice but to entertain herself reading socmed. Soome her of colleagues positive of covid are intubated. 4 of them already succumbed to the disease.
“Wala akong choice kundi libangin ang sarili ko sa pagbabasa ng soc med. Ang mga colleagues kong may covid ay naka-intubate. At 4 na nga silang namatay.”
Dr. Torres thought she was already okay until she had diarrhea. That scared her to death and cried because according to stories she read from Wuhan, once the patient starts exhibiting GI (gastro-intestinal) symptoms, it is going to be downhill from there.
“Akala ko pagaling na ako, bigla akong nagtae. Sabi sa Wuhan, pag nagkaroon ng GI symptoms, tuluy-tuloy nang pumapangit ang kundisyon. Ngayon lang ako natakot. Napaiyak ako. Hindi pa ako handang mamatay. Masamang damo ako, di ba? Kelangan pa ko ng anak ko. Sasabak pa ko sa gyera… “
Dr. Torres said the virus is not the only worst enemy of its victim, but her sanity. That is why these patients need our moral support.
“Hindi lang pala virus ang kalaban ko, pati katinuan ng pag-iisip. Kaya kamustahin nyo mga kakilala nyong may sakit, mga naka-quarantine, at ang pamilya nila. Kelangan nila ng pagpapalakas ng loob.”
Dr. Torres ended the FB post wishing to see the end of this crisis very quickly and no more Filipinos die of the virus.
“Sana matapos na ito. Sana gumaling na kami. Sana wala nang mamatay. Miss na miss ko na ang anak ko. Ngunit salamat pa din sa lahat ng taong tumulong at nangamusta. Too many to mention. Mahal ko kayo. At Dyos ko, maraming salamat po at buhay pa ako at ok ang pamilya ko.”
Dr. Torres’ FB post has gone viral, generating 18, 527 shares, 54,963 reactions and 17, 266 comments and growing.
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