COVID-19: A painful message by the virus-suffering victim

Lahore, 21st March: The whole world has been facing a calamity in the form of a coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which is taking its toll worldwide and has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO).

According to the reports of Baaghi TV, a video has been surfacing the social media of a 39-year-old woman, by the name of Tara Jane Langston, who was an active gym-goer and now suffering from the coronavirus disease.

In her video, she is seen in a very bad condition in the intensive care of a hospital and struggling to breathe, warning people about the disease. According to Tara, who was a waitress and a healthy individual of the society, is now being treated at the Intensive care of the Hillingdon Hospital in London.

According to her, she is fighting her ‘battle’ and every breath she takes ‘felt like glass in lungs’. Last Friday she was rushed to the hospital, where she was diagnosed with the COVID-19 disease, later on, she was shifted to the Intensive care of the Hillingdon Hospital, where she filmed her video on Monday, gasping for breath and coughing and sent that to her colleague, which has now gone viral.

Ms. Langston had filmed herself with her phone in the intensive care unit at Hillingdon Hospital in west London pleading with others to take the deadly COVID-19 seriously.

Gasping for breath and coughing, she made the harrowing video the following day and sent it as a Whatsapp message to her colleagues warning them to take care.

She had been unwell for the last weeks after initially being diagnosed with a chest infection and given antibiotics, which she took alongside ibuprofen and paracetamol.

Ms. Langston, a waitress, now believes the ibuprofen may have exacerbated the virus, which kept her at Hillingdon Hospital in west London for the last week.

She told MailOnline this evening: ‘It’s like having glass in your lungs, it’s hard to explain, but every breath is a battle.

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She has further advised the people, ‘If anyone still smokes, put the cigarettes down because I’m telling you now you need your lungs and, please, none of you take any chances, I mean it, because if it gets really bad then you’re going to end up here. My body is fighting this so once again don’t take any chances.’

Ms. Langston, from northwest London, was initially seen by doctors nearly 11 days ago when she started feeling unwell after a trip to Krakow in Poland with her husband Richard and their two daughters.

She took a cab to Hillingdon Hospital where she was diagnosed with a chest infection and given antibiotics.

Her health, however, deteriorated throughout last week and she was rushed by an ambulance back to the hospital where she was diagnosed with pneumonia.

Ms. Langston was then tested for the coronavirus and the results came back positive on Sunday, prompting her to be rushed into the intensive care.

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She said that she wanted to show that it is not just the elderly or those with underlying health conditions who are at risk.

‘It’s absolutely horrible and I wouldn’t want to go through anything like this ever again. I’d been ill for about five days before I was taken to hospital in an ambulance.”

She had originally been diagnosed with a chest infection and given antibiotics and advised to take ibuprofen and paracetamol. She was taking about eight ibuprofen a day and the doctors now think that that exacerbated the problem.

According to Miss Tara, ‘When I was taken into intensive care they originally planned to sedate me and keep me in intubation because my body had gone through it all for the best part of a week and I was shattered. Fortunately, I was kept awake but needed six liters of oxygen. Now that I’m improving I’m on one liter.’

It is being advised by the authorities worldwide to take extra precautionary measures, stay indoors, hydrated, clean and build a strong immunity to fight off the disease.

Stay healthy and stay tuned to Baaghi TV for further updates.

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