I have a corona virus
On Sunday, March 1st I left my home and left to attend QCon London. At the time of my leaving coronavirus in the Czech Republic did not have any diagnosed cases and travel to the UK permitted.
At the airport, I met with my colleague and we talked about the virus, more or less as a thing that is happening in Italy. During our talk, before we could board the plane we noticed a news story that there are first confirmed cases in Prague. We did not think anything about it.
We left for London.
The opening keynote of the conference talked about how they decided not to cancel the conference, instead, they decided to put hand sanitizers everywhere, food into its own small containers, be on the safe side.
The conference was fine and all. We left on Thursday, March 5th.
As we landed in Prague, there was a phone alert to monitor our body temperature, if it’s more than 38° we should get tested.
On Friday I left for work. I was feeling fine.
Friday evening I had chills and decided to measure my body temperature. 36.9.
Saturday morning was worse. Chills and 37.3.
I googled the coronavirus symptoms. At the time there were no good online resources and according to the resources we had at the time I and my fiancee decided I have just a cold.
On Monday, I still had 37.2 and chills. I decided to take a sick day.
On Tuesday, the same story. I decided to work from home as I was feeling more or less ok.
This continued until Thursday where when I woke up I noticed an email from QCon saying they have multiple confirmed cases in between the attendees. We decided I should get tested.
I called 155 (Czech medical emergency line), they told me to call my hygienic office and gave me a number.
I called and they ordered an ambulance to go to our place and test me and ordered me to be quarantined. The ambulance showed up on Saturday. They looked exhausted. They did the test, gave me a different number to call to get the result and left.
I did not sleep well from Saturday to Sunday. Sunday morning I called the number and they told me to call after 15:00. I did that. It took some time to get through and then they announced to me that my result is positive. I should call the hygienic office again.
I did that. They said to me that nothing is changing, I am to still be home and call myself an ambulance if I start to suffocate. They also wanted a complete list of my whereabouts. I did say I was at work and gave them a list of people I came in contact with at work. Then I wrote an email to our work HR.
On Monday this week, all my symptoms left me I again called the hygienic office, they told me that they can test me after a week without symptoms and I need to have multiple negative tests to be considered clean.
I am currently waiting for my first negative test.
During this whole time, I live in an apartment with my fiancee and our 6-month-old daughter. We decided to test them after my second negative test.
I live, work and sleep in our living room, my fiance and daughter are in the kid’s room and sleeping room. We talked via Facebook messenger and only through closed doors. When I leave my room I only do so with protecting mouthpiece and for a very limited time.
The worst part is the waiting.
