Around the first few week of June, I came down with this potentially deadly disease. I had been taking great precaution to prevent the contraction of the virus. Self quarantining and restricting the number and frequency I was seeing people. I even had two friends that I affectionately named my Rona Squad. I was living in Charleston at the time and went home to take some things there as I was awaiting the end of my apartment lease. I knew that my niece would be home that Sunday. She is almost 2 years old, so I went home with every intention of staying for a bit and leaving the next day. We played and I could tell she was beginning to get used to me. We did not know that her mother was tested for the Virus earlier that week. In true testing fashion, she did not receive the results until later the next week.
No one was worried. But she tested positive.
My niece still is breast fed. And she is constantly around her mother, as all little kids should be. Presumably, she was a carrier and, like many children, was completely asymptomatic. Her mother only lost her taste and some smell, as well.
I am an at risk individual with an autoimmune disease. My immune system is compromised. And so I was the first to get sick. I had fever for two days, a massive headache, chills, aching body, and a cough. My disease was not taken seriously. My mother got it next and had the same symptoms I had.
Remarkably, we recovered fairly quickly (just under a week). My father lasted over two weeks while refusing to get medical attention. Until the last few days when he was pretty much hacking up a lung. We all recovered, but still they seem to be in denial of the entire experience. I have very little to say about Science Deniers. Just, no.
I graduated in the midst of a pandemic. Now, my extended family is suffering great losses because of a preventable disease. Why is it so hard to just wear a mask? I wore one when I was sick and so did everyone else in my family who was sick.
I just want to express how saddening all of these deaths are to the world community.
-Update: My family has officially lost 5 extended family members. An entire branch of the family tree was struck with the virus, not once but twice.
Sadly, one of my mother's favorite uncles perished. I want her to know that I greatly felt for her loss. It is not fair what South Texas is doing to their Latinx population.
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