Her PRC test remained negative and the serology to which she had access in recent days has not detected any infection with coronavirus, but Maria San Martin, 39, does not give up. It’s covid-19 that has been making him go through hell for more than two months.
“My husband and I fell ill on the day of confinement, March 17, when our two children, 10 months and 3 years old, had returned from the crèche at the end of the previous week with a little fever and cough, she said. Nothing extraordinary a priori, my partner had headaches, but they stopped quickly, it was my state of health that deteriorated. had pains everywhere, I was breathless… “
“I had lung burns”
Maria obviously contacts her doctor, but as is then the rule, she is told to stay at home in isolation in her apartment in Tournefeuille, with her two young children, without it being possible to verify by a test if it is positive. “If it gets worse, you remember,” she was told on the eve of 3966 that she contacted.
Finally, he was sent a doctor and a blood saturation check at the Purpan University Hospital confirmed that he was well oxygenated. But after a week, muscle aches, sore throats and chills resume. “I had heartburn and persistent breathlessness that was very frightening,” recalls Maria. “It was obvious that it was very special and very different from the simple flu I know.”
Her condition is not improving. Maria is distraught
At the Covid center in Colomiers, whom she contacted, she was told that there was no need to worry, that the symptoms could last 15 days or even a little longer. In fact, in mid-April, Maria thinks she is finally cured, when everything starts all over again. Pain, fatigue and even intestinal problems. Her doctor puts her on antibiotics, thinking of a possible reactivation of the virus, but her condition is not getting better. Maria is distraught.
She approaches the psychological unit of the CHU, passes a pulmonology scanner, a spirography. Without convincing results and especially without diagnosis. “Since then, it continues, dizziness, pain in the legs with a more acute attack, ten days ago.” I couldn’t take it anymore, I called the hospital again asking them to help me and that’s when they told me that they were aware of other cases like mine, but that they had no solutions “…
“I was cut off from the world without knowing what was happening to me”
Contractual in the rectorship, Maria is unable to telecommute. “I was cut off from the world without knowing what was happening to me,” she says. It is on social networks that she will understand that her ordeal is widely shared. “We are very much on different platforms talking to each other, sharing our experiences, in France, but also abroad, like in Spain,” says Maria. We sound like weird people, but today, we want “We are helped, we cannot be left like that. We want specialists who can tell us what we are suffering from and what disease we have contracted.”
Except that it’s more than complicated to have contact with an infectious disease specialist. “A specialist at the Sarrus clinic explained to me that one could be a false negative if the PCR screening was not done on time. As for serology, we may not have created immunity”.
A blur that Maria can no longer bear. The young woman now has only one obsession: “I want to know” …
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