{"id":26222,"date":"2020-08-30T15:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bhutaneseliterature.com\/?p=26222"},"modified":"2020-08-30T11:50:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T10:50:33","slug":"battle-against-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bhutaneseliterature.com\/battle-against-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle against COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Deepesh Subedi, BSN-RN-BC\u00a0 \u00a0 <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-26224\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bhutaneseliterature.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Plasma-Donation-1-297x300.jpg?resize=297%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bhutaneseliterature.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Plasma-Donation-1.jpg?resize=297%2C300&ssl=1 297w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bhutaneseliterature.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Plasma-Donation-1.jpg?resize=1014%2C1024&ssl=1 1014w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bhutaneseliterature.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Plasma-Donation-1.jpg?resize=768%2C776&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bhutaneseliterature.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Plasma-Donation-1.jpg?resize=1521%2C1536&ssl=1 1521w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bhutaneseliterature.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Plasma-Donation-1.jpg?resize=750%2C757&ssl=1 750w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bhutaneseliterature.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Plasma-Donation-1.jpg?resize=120%2C120&ssl=1 120w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bhutaneseliterature.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Plasma-Donation-1.jpg?w=2028&ssl=1 2028w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Tennessee-USA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dear friends,<br \/>\nGod has a reason for everybody to play a role in this world and it took me 27 years to find mine. Now I do exactly what God has made me for: taking care of patients at the bedside and witness them heal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Life gave me an opportunity to choose between two fairly unequal options: to make a decent living being a self-employed businessman or make a fair living being a nurse, but fully enjoy every aspect of my career. I chose the latter. So far I feel rewarded, fulfilled, satisfied, and complete with my decision and the differences I make in peoples\u2019 lives each day at work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My dream was to be where I am now in taking care of sick people. When it comes to patient care, I personally try to incorporate my positive attitude and morals as the first line of treatment. Being a bedside nurse, my presence radiates a strong immunity to those patients fighting against their illness. I often tell my patients that \u201cI trade pills for smiles\u201d and with no reflex to control, they radiate their smiles back to me. Those smiles are contagious. I voluntarily\/involuntarily smile back at them. I can\u2019t express how gratifying it feels to see them smile despite their pain and suffering. But with COVID-19 there is no pill to trade with a smile. All we have is love and support from friends and families.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These days, my role as a bedside nurse is needed more than ever; just like armed forces are needed during a war. I am a worrier, fighter, and soldier battling with this invisible enemy, the COVID-19. I am glad to be a member of this battalion representing the whole world with no boundaries, but scrubs and gowns. I wake up every day with the same inspiration and aspiration to put my patients first and shield them when needed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On my most recent battle against COVID-19, I got injured with no major wounds, but some signs and symptoms, including loss of taste and generalized body aches. On 4th June 2020, I woke up with a weird smell and a sense of weakness. At first, I thought the tiredness was due to work. I am scheduled for Friday through Sunday. All are 12-hour shifts. I also did garden work that same week, but this was not the case. Already being exposed to COVID-19 positive patients at work put me on the radar as a high-risk group to contract the virus. As a result, I have been tested and confirmed positive for COVID-19. I feel fine except for the above-mentioned signs and symptoms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I am fighting this invisible enemy (invading my system now) and can\u2019t wait to get back to work to help more patients. Being COVID-19 positive, I personally feel how this virus physically, mentally, and emotionally affects the body, but being a frontline essential worker I don\u2019t consider this epidemic as something new, neither will it be the last. God has a reason to expose this virus to me and the reason is to develop immunity against it so I can take care of more COVID-19 infected patients with less fear and, more knowledge and understanding. Even as I am falling, I am falling forward, waking up soon to be a stronger, experienced and bold nurse. Being able to donate convalescent plasma for those who needed an extra immunity to fight against the coronavirus was another fulfilling promise I ever made in my life. I wish we soon will live in the world free of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thank you to my family, friends, and my employer for your love and support. I am fine and eager to come back to join the healthcare forcefully loaded with my experience and knowledge. Stay strong. We can win this battle together. None of us are alone.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like fcbkbttn_large_button\"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/bhutaneseliterature.com\/battle-against-covid-19\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"225px\" size=\"large\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/bhutaneseliterature.com\/battle-against-covid-19\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deepesh Subedi, BSN-RN-BC\u00a0 \u00a0 Tennessee-USA Dear friends, God has a reason for everybody to play a role in this world and it took me 27 years to find mine. 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