A Turkish Cypriot family living in London, the capital managed to overcome coronavirus they caught.
First 21-year-old Ayşen İbrahim experienced symptoms which then followed with 25-year-old İsmayil İbrahim, mother Melek İbrahim and father Ersan İbrahim experienced similar symptoms. After the coronavirus tests were done, the whole family turned out to be positive and they started their recovery at processes at home.
After Father Ersan İbrahim had difficulty breathing, he was hospitalized and treated. Ersan İbrahim was discharged on Friday, January 8 after a 3-week stay in hospital.
Stating that he was going through a very difficult process and could not sleep due to pain in the first days, Ersan İbrahim spoke to the Londra Gazete saying: ‘‘ In the first days of my illness, I was not feeling well and I thought I had flu, then I had a weakness and lost my appetite. One of the days I had trouble breathing, my family got worried and called the ambulance, I had to wait about five hours in the ambulance due to the busy hospitals. Later, I was taken to the Whipps Cross Hospital and high flow oxygen therapy was applied in the intensive care unit.
In general, I was experiencing constant shortness of breath and panic attacks for this reason because I was having difficulty breathing. The first days in the hospital were very difficult, I was in pain and I was out of breath. My oxygen levels started to deteriorate, the virus caused involvement in the lungs, so a more severe treatment was applied. There were many patients in the intensive care unit I was in, who were under treatment for a long time, the treatment process of this pandemic can really take a long time. Healthcare professionals and doctors have taken good care of me, I cannot thank enough to the National Health System (NHS). However, the hospitals are very busy and there are not enough health workers, the waiting period can be very long. ”
İsmayil İbrahim stated he spent the recovery process with his mother and sister by isolating themselves at home, and that his sister experienced the loss of taste and smell, and that she and her mother also experienced side effects such as weakness, headache, cough and high fever. İsmayil and his family, who defeated the coronavirus, ‘‘We need to follow simple rules in order to see the least damage, not to lose our loved ones and to hold on to life in a healthy way. We need to be very careful about masks, distance and hygiene because the virus affects not only England but the whole world and has claimed many lives. We must go through this process altogether.”
