We have started telling the heading of stories on the theme: “How the Covid-19 pandemic is affecting the life of PH patient?”<\/p>\n
To your attention a story #2 of Svitlana Sazhyna (diagnosis – PH):<\/p>\n
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1. How could a possible COVID-19 infection affect your current medical condition?<\/p>\n
“My health state can be affected by complications to the other organs, the breath problems can worsen more”.<\/p>\n
2. How does the current situation (extensive spread of COVID-19) affect your quality of life\/everyday life? And why?<\/p>\n
“It is a bit uncomfortable to wear a face mask, but a person can get accustomed to everything. But the face mask protects me from the current cold”.<\/p>\n
3. How do you feel about the call to boycott the security measures (not wearing protective masks, organizing risky gatherings, etc.)? Are you afraid?<\/p>\n
“I didn’t have such experience”.<\/p>\n
4. What are you most afraid of in this current situation?<\/p>\n
“I am the most afraid of my senior mother”.<\/p>\n
5. How do you feel when you see someone intentionally or unintentionally ignoring healthcare guidelines and endangering their own and your health and life? <\/p>\n
“I do not know what to say. The people are unwise. The question of self-security is a private business of everybody. That’s why I am trying to be far from such people”.<\/p>\n
6. Do you have people in your midst who don’t believe in the harmfulness of the virus? How do you feel about that?<\/p>\n
“There are such people, but everybody has a right for his opinion. Those people shouldn’t make other people think the way they do – that’s the most important.<\/p>\n
7. Were you at any time, during the COVID-19 pandemic “forced” to attend a family or other social event (wedding, funeral, celebration, party, etc.)? How did you feel about it? Did you attend? Were you feeling any kind of distress after the event?<\/p>\n
“I didn’t have such experience. But when I was working at kindergarten, I “had to” because of the work. I do not attend social events. Even before the pandemic I did not attend such parties”.<\/p>\n
8. Do you experience distress\/ panic attacks due to the current situation and concern for your own health, your future and your life? How does this look like, what triggers those attacks?<\/p>\n
“I have experienced some worries at the beginning of the quarantine, but now I am accustomed to it and I am thinking about other things. However, I did not have panic attacks, rather I have been thinking about my actions in emergency situation, if any…”<\/p>\n
9. How do you feel when you have to explain to people that COVID-19 infection can have serious consequences for your health? How do people react?<\/p>\n
“People guess about the consequences and try to save me from it, after having seen that I am blue.”<\/p>\n
10. What would make you feel safer in this time of the COVID-19 pandemic?<\/p>\n
“It is said that vaccination helps to recover the illness easier, but I do not risk, especially now”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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