Hi, It's Magdalena here. Two months ago I got infected with Covd-19. It did not spare me even though I was very careful and I was having a responsible approach to mine and others' safety. I'm a graphic designer and passionate climber and I live in Serbia now. I don’t have Serbian insurance but also I am not planning to come back to Poland because of the tragic pandemic situation there.
I’m raising money for diagnosis of my post-covid sickness. It has been the worst sickness I ever went through…and after almost 2 months I'm still bed-based and experiencing symptoms. During the last two months I have been 2 times in an emergency hospital overnight and I didn’t leave bed most of the time. I wasn't able to walk and cook for myself and even keeping basic hygiene everyday was impossible. I have been suffering with a wide range of symptoms [ tachykardia, fever, severe pain in abdomen-sometimes 20 h in a row, fatigue, nervous system errors - dizziness, mild hallucinations, also insomnia and lack of thermoregulation and migraines..] I got inflammation of the intestines, stomach and thyroid. At some point I wasn’t able to eat more than 200-500kcal per day, and it was always connected with very painful diarrhea and sometimes vomiting shortly after the meal so I stopped eating not to feel pain anymore. And this food regime lasted 26 days so I am extremely weak and I have lost many kilograms. I am making jokes about it, that I can fit in all my old clothes and that I will be very light on the climbing wall but I also cannot hide how scared I am if the situation continues. Every one or two weeks I have a couple of good days where I can go for a walk and I am full of happiness that I'm productive and that I am Alive. But also there is a pattern and I always come back to bed and symptoms after 2-3 days. I dream to come back to climbing, that is the meaning of my life and be able to eat all products. Now I eat only 2-3 products that i can digest. And of course I need to come back to full time work. I didn't work for 1,5 month at all and I had no income.
I have already spent about 1500 Euro only for blood tests, RTG, ultra scans, covid tests, visits to the specialists, taxis [ I'm not able to cover more than 500m distance walking without resting and hospitals are in much greater distance], my medicines cost me 50 euro every week. Besides that I have to cover every day costs of living: bills, rent, I have two cats so also cat food and cat litter, and every day medicine for one of them.
I will spend this money for further tests that I have to make: colonoscopy and gastroscopy, ultrascan of my heart, medicines for the intestines inflammation, for further visits at the cardiologist, gastrologist and endocrinologist and blood tests I still need to make and visit at the "gym" to slowly rehabilitate my body after almost 2 months in bed with no use of the muscles. This fundraise will cover about 60-70% of it.
This help means everything to me and I will speed up my recovery. I am very happy to make gifts for all of you while I recover. I started to paint recently (who knows me then they know my style :) If you want me to make you a painting as a gift for the donation write me on Facebook with details about what you want and I will be very happy to send you a painting as fast as I can make it.