Love & Positive Covid Tests

So I tested positive for Covid?

On June 24, I posted a short article titled “A Beautiful East African story” where I expressed?so much praise on the eastern part of our beautiful continent. A few days later, I went to do a Covid test and what do you know, it came back positive.?

After experiencing such beauty in the continent, little did I know that I would all of a sudden have to use those same memories to inspire beauty and health in my mind. To be fair, I don’t know where and how I could have contracted Covid. I am super careful and with my wife carrying our child, I try and be a lot more paranoid about where I go, who I interact with and what I do. Some things though are not in your control, at least not all the time. My brothers in Tanzania have some of the lowest Covid numbers in the continent so maybe I slacked a bit while I was there, maybe I wasn’t paranoid enough to look after myself, maybe, maybe, maybe? Does it actually matter how and where? The point is both the rapid and PCR tests I conducted came back positive.?

Some of you may ask, why did I go test anyway? Well… when I landed back in SA on Wednesday 23 June, I didn’t feel too great. In fact, on that beautiful Ethiopian A350 jet, I was feeling rather cold but the air conditioning wasn’t even that bad. By nightfall at home, I was feeling weary and started coughing. The cough got progressively worse by Thursday, Friday and Saturday, but it started subsiding on Saturday morning. My wife had set up a doctor’s appointment for Saturday morning which we then cancelled. However, my rib cage was in pain so I decided, screw this I’m testing for Covid. Now, consider that up to this point due to a combination of medical and travel reasons, I had done well over 12 tests and they had all come back negative including the 3 I had done between Sunday 13 June and Wednesday 16 June. So I thought this would be business as usual. So I was surprised when the result said positive.?

I had a golf game I was meant to play on Sunday which I cancelled. On the Thursday before, I told my club chairman and the team that I am cancelling because I’m not feeling too great and because I had been travelling the week before, I don’t want to take chances. "I couldn’t bear the guilt if I accidentally infected someone" I said. My son had been visiting my mother in Pretoria and due to return on Sunday and my mother would have joined us for Sunday lunch. I decided they should not come until I get my test results. Once I did I confirmed that they should not come through. So now it was just me, my wife, our unborn child and the television. My biggest fear at this point being that I may have brought Covid home to my family, and I had! I was definitely positive and my wife had developed a cough and the doctors simply just advised us to assume we both are.?

Fear is one of the most paralysing emotions in the world. At this point I was shit scared. I’ve been on multivitamins for the longest time and recently (3months earlier) started taking a new product which we own called PhilaSupp Sukuma from https://www.dhirubhai.net/company/dabiya-legacy-pharma/ to boost my immunity. My mother told me to get Disprin Cardio Care to reduce the chance of blood clotting. I took all the medication I could find to boost my immunity, monitored my temperature and oxygen levels but importantly had to isolate from the one person who means the most to me, my wife, oh and our little 33cm eggplant kicking in her tummy. Sunday was gonna be a lonely night. But, I had to focus on healing and that healing would start in my mind. The fuel for that mental healing was knowing I want to live to love my wife, our baby and our son and there was no way I could let my mind be occupied by any other thoughts. I started writing this 5 days into my symptoms of Covid drinking rooibos tea and a little red wine (just to calm the nerves). 7 days later, I told myself, I would be totally healed, no coughing, no aches and pains and we are all back to normal. My follow up test would read negative and life can go on, well only as far as 9pm since we are back on level 4 lockdown. Well it’s now 7 days later and all that I manifested has indeed happened, except I haven’t done my follow up test yet, nor have I gone out, except for short walks in the neighbourhood. ?

When it comes to Covid, the lesson I have learnt is healing is not just about medication, supplements and steaming. It’s about love and support, and I got a lot of love and support from my wife and family. I felt so bad receiving that love because I felt at the time I didn’t deserve it, but my wife especially was there all the way. It is that love that even though we were both Covid positive (assumed with her) we shared a bond through this time that helped rediscover emotions that we may have overlooked recently. The catalyst for healing was love, watching funny films and trash TV and laughing a whole lot, watching motivation movies, video calling our relatives, getting calls from our friends and relatives, watching videos of our son practicing golf daily and him telling us he loves us and listening, feeling our baby kicking in her tummy, made us want to get better! I have learnt that healing is not just about medicine, it’s about summoning the universe through happy and positive thoughts to help you overcome!?

I may not be a seasoned writer or published author but the moral of my story is that, umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu. I am because you are, because we are. We are all responsible for each other’s well being. My family and I all came together and played a role, not only in my healing but in ensuring that we don’t spread the virus and ensure everyone else stays healthy. It should not be about what the government tells us to do or not to do. We should all want to be healthy and happy, but importantly we should want it for each other. This is how we will defeat Covid, not through government restrictions. We will defeat and destroy this virus through LOVE! So maybe it’s time we rephrase the messages around Covid. Instead of advertising all the negative statistics and messages of death and suffering, the restrictive manoeuvres employed by governments and threats of this and that, maybe a little love will go a long way. Think about it, what do we have to lose? So let’s think love and health just for a few days with some sense of faith and belief, let’s see if the universe does not respond lovely back!?

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