“The lockdown the fear
It was not long ago but very much near!
The scare of life so delicate so tender
Was that all real sometimes I do wonder!”
The other day in my timeline of FB I came across the blog I had written about when we were under lockdown and under the attack of COVID!
Will share it some day but got me thinking of how we survived that!
After some years it may be difficult to imagine the days spent in anxiety! The medical tests and the nose swab!
At least we humans normally help each other! But did you know that in the wild if you find an animal with healed fracture that means something very special!?
read on!
The first time when lockdown was announced in the end of March 2020; it did not affect us much since we were medical personnels and we had to anyway continue our work!
Slowly over the weeks as the cases rose and the toll began, then the seriousness of the whole pandemic hit us in the face!
We had designated areas in the house where we used to come first after the hospital visit and clean ourselves!
After doing a COVID positive case in those early days we were asked to immediately discard the disposable robes and take bath right there in the hospital and leave!
The face mask used to fog so I used to use the ones with the filters and used to look like a robot! Doing surgery especially emergency like septal hematoma drainage or the most common surgery done during those days which is Tracheostomy was not easy! We had to do them fast and scream within the mask!
Even regular OP was not usual with the distance maintenance and masks! So many times I would have told the patient who would be literally coughing without any tissue to use one or at least do it away from my face!
Those were the days when the Telemedicine took wings! So much so that in the peak of my consultation I would have ‘seen’ about 40-50 patients everyday! Thank god for great internet connection and a good phone!
Still remember how in the early days I would be comforting everyone with confidence when actually we did not know much in terms of treatment!
Then the study of CT scans and the blood tests and the value interpretation became the norm!
We were also part of the volunteer doctors who used to aid people in direction and guidance for the proper treatment and assessment of severity!
Now all these feels like a dream! The only good thing was the great drive! Since the road was empty, it was a breeze to drive and we loved it!
Of course helping one another and healing is the only way you can defeat any pandemic!
On that notion it has been found that if you have a group of animals and one of the animals has a long bone fracture which has healed; this means that the animal was well taken care of by other members!
This is because in the wild, a fracture or even an injury is actually a death sentence! There is no place for a weak animal in the wild! The predators and the scavengers would just pounce upon you! The youngest, weakest and the injured can only survive with help!
So if animals can do it then I guess Humans must too! All that mushy sentimental talks reminds me of Birthday celebrity Rajkumar “Raju” Hirani!
Now think of those days with nostalgia and sleep!
Shubh Ratri!
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