Yasemin (10): Waiting for the spades of freedom
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More posts by Christiane Fux All content is checked by medical journalists.Yasemin is waiting for her vaccination appointment. Contagion with the virus would be highly risky for them. For them, the spades are the door to a little more freedom.
A pump dispenser with disinfectant hangs right next to Yasemin's front door. "I don't care who comes in, they can all disinfect their fins," says Yasmin and laughs. She has not only had the device since the corona pandemic. She made it two years ago when doctors tried to get the tumors in her body under control with a therapy that is otherwise used against cancer. To do this, her immune system had to be shut down a lot.
“At that time I was the only one wearing a face mask,” she reports. She met irritated looks on the street or in the supermarket. Today all of humanity is walking around like that. The fact that everyone is wearing masks makes it easier for Yasemin. Not only because she is no longer noticeable with a mask, but because the masks of the others protect her additionally.
Corona + lung defect = disaster
The rare Proteus Syndrome she suffers from has not only unnaturally thickened and elongated some fingers and sprouted tumors in her body, but also caused malformations in her lungs. It is therefore less well ventilated than normal, which makes it easy for pathogens to settle there. Every cold at Yasemin therefore threatens to develop into pneumonia.
One cannot imagine what the coronavirus would do in their respiratory tract. “Corona is already severe. I have great respect for that. I'm not in a panic, but I'm afraid, ”says Yasemin.
High-risk patients also get their turn later
Now she is mainly relying on the corona vaccination: "After that it will be easier," she hopes.She doesn't have an appointment yet - although she is at great risk. After all, seriously ill people have just moved up from priority level 3 to level 2.
In Germany, the elderly come first - and the hospital and nursing staff who are particularly at risk. If everything goes well with the vaccination program, Yasemin can hope for a vaccination date from April.
However, it is not entirely clear whether the immunization is completely effective in her. Because for this you need a reasonably fit immune system. “I guess that's a crack from birth,” says Yasemin.
You don't vaccinate just for yourself
If the vaccination didn't work, Yasemin, like millions of others, would depend on people around her getting vaccinated. The Piks not only protects those who have been vaccinated, who may not be at high risk of getting seriously ill, but also those who are not protected by a vaccination.
Until then, only isolation will help. But Yasemin is also increasingly bothering her. Apart from doctor's appointments and a seldom visit to the supermarket, she has been curling up at home for months now. The neighbor boy takes her two Chihuahuas for walks every day. When her husband comes to visit, she usually retires to another room.
Living in permanent isolation
“I just don't want to risk anything,” she says. The lockdown, under which all of Germany groans, is a paradise of freedom compared to their everyday life. "I notice that I already have more depressive days than usual, simply because I lack social contacts," says Yasemin. But that's just how it goes for millions of people.
Always at a distance
She even distances herself a little from her Dennis. The many contacts he has to have on the job make him the only gateway through which Yasemin could get infected. "I have to think twice about kissing him."
Corona is always in the back of her mind. "But it's not that I line the house with protective film and put masks everywhere." Fortunately, she and her husband are not so extremely cuddly cheeks anyway, "that's not our nature."
Finally dare to do something again
She is currently unsettled mainly because of the mutations. "You read there that people get sick despite being vaccinated." It is true that the vaccinations seem to prevent the infected from becoming seriously ill even if they are infected with the virus mutants. However, even a mild infection can be fatal for Yasemin.
Nevertheless, a vaccination would give her more security in everyday life, she says. "I would finally dare myself a little more."
If you want to follow Yasemin on Instagram, you can find her here: yasemins_verrueckte_welt
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