Rejuvenating days in hospital for lady cop

Coimbatore: It was on a Friday morning Mangala*, a cop attached to Podanur police station, received a shocking call from the Covid-19 control room informing that she was positive for the novel coronavirus. Her samples were collected for test the previous day.
Mangala, who was posted at Sundarapuram check post for a fortnight, had just finished her mandatory seven-day quarantine and reported back to duty. Since she had no symptoms, she thought she heard them wrong. She was one among the six cops who were tested positive for the virus that day.
The 42-year-old officer said, “I was in complete denial. I kept wondering how I might have got infected and if I have stopped and touched an infected person’s vehicle or identity card. While I was engrossed in such thoughts, my mind raced to my aged father who is a heart patient, mother who is a diabetic and my two-and-a-half-year-old niece who sleeps cuddling me every night.”
The first day, according to her, was filled with full of anxiety.
The very next day when she was admitted to PSG Hospitals, along with five other cops, doctors performed a series of tests. “They told me my viral load is really low and I would most likely have no symptoms and that I was just going to be given nutritious food and supplements. Though I was slightly relieved, I was still nervous about the test results.”
She said the next 10-11 days in the hospital was rejuvenating. “Since we had no symptoms, we didn’t had to rest mandatorily. So, all the six of us used to walk within the ward every morning and evening. We also made jokes about quarantine and the virus. I used to video call and chat with my family every day to get over that missing feeling. My 20-year-old daughter took over the household chores and cooking, making me proud. The days were spent eating healthy food such as fruits, dal and milk.”
The officer, in fact, considers her hospitalization a blessing, because her diet has helped her keep her diabetes at bay. “My sugar levels are perfectly normal now. I have stopped my medications too,” she said.
(*Name changed)