How I conquered the deadly Coronavirus -Muibat Ogunsakin

By Taiwo Abiodun
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Mrs. Muibat Oshodi Ogunsakin who lives in Baltimore, Maryland in America recounts how she contracted the dreaded Coronavirus disease and regained back her health .She spoke with Taiwo Abiodun in America.

”My name is Muibatu Oshodi Ogunsakin. I live in Baltimore, Maryland in the United States of America . I have two shops where I sell wigs and jewelries .I am a mother of three.I am from Owo, Ondo State , Nigeria .And I have spent 30years in America , and was planning to relocate back home to Nigeria  when I contracted the deadly virus. In fact, I was already shipping my things to Nigeria before I fell ill”.

How it started

”It started long before I discovered that I had it .Well, I have a two-day business store in market place which are Saturday and Sunday and always very busy  so I didn’t know exactly when I contracted the disease  but I started having running nose  in one of the Saturdays  so I thought  I  had the normal headache and fever. I went to purchase over the counter medicine. Normally, I don’t like taking medicine . But when it started getting worse then I started taking it.

”I had the dreaded disease and I believe that I got infected from my shop where I sell wigs and jewelries . I believe I caught the virus actually at the early stage because I was falling sick and of course nothing like coronavirus was on my mind .I was having fever and in the middle of the night I would be sweating even if I take off my dress. I would be sweating even if you squeeze it you will see a lot of water.

Little by little and slowly I was losing my strength and with  fever all the time and loss of appetite, but I was thinking that may be it was just a little cold or something that I would just sleep  over, may be if I sleep or if I do something differently it will be over but it kept growing. Then I couldn’t walk , if I had to walk I would hold on to something , then if I was going upstairs it would  take a long time ,so it was getting worse . I did not want to scare my children but being who I am I thought that  everything was okay , I just slept over it, thinking everything would be alright ,that was all  about it.

Then it started to get into me deeper and deeper that occasionally I would have  high fever , very , very high; then all of a sudden  I would  become cold , very cold I don’t know what kind of cold  for I have not experienced such in  my life.Day by day it was getting worse and worse, then the loss of appetite and I couldn’t smell anything . I couldn’t eat and in the middle of the night, it became nightmare .My children offered to take me  to see the doctor but I said it was nothing and that I would get over it anyway.

One night when I slept I was very weak, I didn’t complain , all of a sudden the heat came upon me, it was like a big blow into my head ,  my body ..like my blood was very hot, it was too hot  as if I had gone , gone out of this world.I was totally gone. I was watching myself on the ground , I couldn’t get up from the floor, luckily I saw one pastor I will not mention his name.  He was standing beside me while  I was looking at my body on the ground and the pastor at the same time looking at me trying to get into my body , he touched me , got inside my body and I came back to life !.It was in the middle of the night” I had passed out .

At the hospital

When I woke up, my children came to see me in the morning and they were giving me all the medicines in this world .I was thinking it would be okay .My body temperature would be so hot then my kids offered to take me to the hospital ,the doctor  said there was nothing they could do since the emergency was full.

They said it was coronavirus they gave me same regular talinum …no medicine , no vaccination  so the doctor sent me back home, its like sending a sick man back home to go and die .So my children gave me green tea and ginger a lot ,I took  lemon in the morning before I eat, I eat ginger  from morning till night …I couldn’t eat , there was loss of appetite that was all , then I started to eat little by little , the coronavirus doesn’t go away but it was not like before.It will attack you and will not go away, I don’t know how to explain it . Since then I have been taking  ginger and tea, I took lemon , so that is it .I  thank God Almighty so ginger perform so many wonders

How are the stages  and  chances of survival

‘They are stages to it , I am not a medical doctor, some can have it mild, some in a way that will take away their lives. Some have good immune system ,some have weak immune system, some with high sugar, high blood pressure , some suffer for a while because I know some damages it has done on me. I can  managed to do some exercise with machine  now.

I have no pains again . I am  okay.

Now I am trying to stay away from crowd. I quarantined myself for about three weeks . I kept away from my children so as not to infect them.I pray for you not to be infected , it was a nasty experience.

Those  with  low immunity at risk

”Yes, the sick ones could be easily infected because of their low immunity, I believe so  II have diabetes, high blood pressure ,I am trying not to take medicine, because once you start , you  will not stop taking it . I believe I am going back to my country and don’t want to go through their medical system.

What  came to your mind when  you sleep  at night?

I knew I was not going to die, I have the promise of God, when it happened.

Her advice

”Well, when there is no medicine I know of now , I don’t know if people say chloroquine is to be taken .We need to take herbs which saved my life we should take lime, garlic and ginger , that is it”

My  daughter

One of Ogunsakin’s children, Lynda Bankole confirmed it .Ogunsakin   lives with her three children in Baltimore , Maryland .Bankole confirmed it and said. In the beginning  my mother’s sickness  which started in stages -loss of weight, dry cough , no energy. My mother couldn’t talk, she could not move, we thought everything would be okay, then excruciating pains , fever and others followed.But we thank God all is well now”.

Bankole confirmed it that her mother was taking ginger among other things , she said ”Yes, she was taking ginger, lemon and garlic .I protected myself by social distancing, we stayed in different rooms, clean everywhere and use disinfect for  the place”.

Her golden advice to Nigerians at home is ”please obey the rules of hygiene, take your herbs, take hot and good food ,  eat a lot of ginger, lemon and garlic which are very medicinal and cover your nose with masks, above all,  observe the  social distancing policy.”