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Nurses outside Delta Hospital wave to first responders who circle the civic precinct with lights and sirens blaring at 7 p.m. daily to acknowledge the efforts of health care workers in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Many residents also take part in the nightly salute at the hospital and throughout the community.
He’s on the road to recovery Ladner’s Jerry Glubisz shares his experience as one of the province’s early COVID-19 cases IAN JACQUES
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He is case number 231. Ladner resident Jerry Glubisz is on the road to recovery after being diagnosed with COVID-19 in mid-March. Glubisz reached out to the Optimist to share his story of being diagnosed and treated as well as the importance of following the provincial health guidelines, including social distancing. “I thought I had the seasonal flu,” he said. “My wife didn’t get it and suggested I get checked out and then my employer, BCAA in Langley, said we don’t
want you back to work until you get checked out.” Glubisz said he went to Delta Hospital late in the day on Thursday, March 12 just before things started to get crazy. “They put me into a negative pressure room and asked me where I had been and I did say I was at Costco in Burlington, just below Bellingham, earlier in the month and that is considered a hot zone,” he recalled. He said doctors took a nose swab and a chest X-ray, finding some pneumonia on his right lung. He was prescribed a sevenday supply of antibiotics. “I took the meds and it took a few days to get the test results
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back and I had COVID-19,” Glubisz said. “I felt pretty bad for those six days, very little appetite, lying around in front of the fireplace because I had chills. I had no chest respiratory problems, there was no vomiting, but I was extremely tired.” Glubisz, who is 63 and in good health, works out three or four times a week, including tackling the Grouse Grind during the summer. He suspects his healthy lifestyle helped him fight off the virus, although he did say he hasn’t felt that bad for years. “I haven’t taken a sick day in five years, so it took something major like this to knock me down,” he said. “It’s been about
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10 days and I’m feeling used to the new normal pretty much back to for the next few weeks. normal. I have a bit of “It didn’t really hit a lingering cough, but home, but when things that should be gone got a little crazy with all soon.” the business closures Glubisz said the care and shutting things he received at Delta down it became more Hospital was top notch. Jerry Glubisz real,” he said. “It can “The care was amazhappen to anyone. The ing. I thought Delta Hospital night before I was talking with staff were very professional. my wife and she said I bet you They were very careful and took $100 that you don’t have the flu. extreme caution,” he said. “Then Sure enough the next day I got I began dealing with the health the results and it was COVID-19. unit who called me daily for “Everyone just has to calm temperature checks and to make down, stay at home and in a few sure I was on the right track to months we will just all sit back recovery.” and say what a surreal time this He said people just have to get was for us all.”
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