If the numbers of the coronavirus are always more frightening, both in Belgium and in the rest of the world, it should not be forgotten that the vast majority of those affected survive. This is precisely the case of this 35-year-old Belgian.
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Matthias Van Oost, a young man from Zedelgem, is the first coronavirus patient to leave Bruges hospital. The 30-year-old defeated the virus and wanted to share his story on social networks. Not to make people feel sorry for him, but to remind citizens that it is important to do everything possible to protect themselves from this terrible disease.
This whole nightmare started on March 4 for the young man: “That day, I felt weak, I had a little fever, aches and cough,” he explains. But, after a visit to the doctor, and since he was not in the risk categories and he had not been in contact with an infected person, he was not tested for coronavirus. “After a week of suffering, without eating, with enormous muscle pain, an endless headache and a temperature of 38.5 on average, but especially with bouts of sweetness that lasted for hours, I felt all just empty. “
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On March 12, the verdict finally fell: Matthias suffered from coronavirus: “I couldn’t do anything anymore. Even talking was too much, I had direct problems breathing, I felt empty, “said the young man.
Ultimately, Matthias was taken to the emergency room of AZ Sint-Jan in Bruges. There, no one had yet been admitted for the coronavirus. Given the young man’s condition, the emergency doctors decided to keep him in intensive care for 24 hours: “Honestly, if I had waited two more days, my future would not have been the same.” After all, after two weeks of treatment, the young man was released from the hospital on Wednesday.
If he can not yet cuddle his loved ones, because he must avoid contact with the outside for three weeks, Matthias is aware that he is lucky to be alive: “I learned that I had the honor of having been the first patient admitted to the hospital in Bruges with the coronavirus, but also the first to be discharged, ”concludes the young man.
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