Perspective: I never told my mom I had coronavirus. It saved us both.
“I have an idea,” my mother said. “What if you don’t ask me if I’ve been out today and I don’t tell you?”
Two days before, I had been diagnosed with covid-19, and each breath was a gift. My doctor told me to isolate from my family and take Tylenol. If it gets worse, go to the emergency room. I live in Upstate New York, the closest hospital 40 minutes away. I did not want to take that ride.I locked myself in my bedroom, assuming it would be a long time before I saw my husband and son again, thinking back to make sure I hadn’t unknowingly exposed anybody.
I lived in a haze of pain and fever, and every day I rallied just long enough to call my mother. I would do a series of deep breathing exercises, a combination of yoga three-part breaths and simple qigong to prepare my weakened lungs for our conversation. Finally, on Day 10, I turned a corner, and so did my mother. She became resigned to being in isolation as much as I had. She didn’t know it, but she and I were experiencing the same loneliness, the same fear, just like so many others. I could relate to her in a new way: We were both vulnerable and unable to see or touch another human.
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