Following on from a members account yesterday regarding contracting Covid-19. Friends of theirs have also kindly given their own detailed account of how it affected them both.

Please again take the time to read this in full. It could happen to you.

Myself and my wife are 2 friends of the previous author and we also tested positive around the same time after having been informed that we had been in contact with a person that had tested positive.

The only symptoms I had was that of a slight cold but did loose my sense of small. My wife on the other hand was in bed for 8 days awful diarrhea, feeling sick all the time, head aches and hot then cold she lost 10 pounds in a week. Her symptoms started about 4 days after contact and knocked her for 6 the onset was very quick, thankfully I was ok to look after her. After 8 days in bed she had enough strength to get out of bed and eat a slice of toast for breakfast then back to bed for a few hours. Up again at lunchtime for a scrambled egg then back to bed for the rest of the day. 

After a few days of being up for a couple of hours at a time she has now got to the stage of being up for most of the day and slowly starting to eat properly again. She is now recovering slowly but is still breathless when walking around it has taken her just over 2 weeks from onset of symptoms to be able to start recovery. This virus hit her very hard and has completely changed her life over the past weeks. 

We have private health insurance so had to pay for a private test. After we tested positive I informed Maria Louisa who passed our details onto the health centre. We have had a couple of phone calls from the health centre and the track and tracers. As a group of friends we took the decision to self isolate after the initial contact with a person who tested positive I hate to think how many other residents of Arboleas the 6 of us would have infected if we had just carried on as if nothing had happened. 

I would urge everyone who has been in contact with someone that tests positive to self isolate. 

This is an awful virus and we must all stick to the rules. Stay safe.