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I Am a COVID-19 Survivor IN -CLUB NO MORE -HOME EXCUSES! AT A By Joyce Vissell
fter being so careful for nine months, my husband Barry mysteriously contacted the COVID-19 virus. Within days, he tested positive and within a few days after that, I tested positive as well. We never were in a gathering of people of any size. We always wore our masks, washed our hands, used hand sanitizer, and kept the required distance. And yet the virus found its way into our lives. Barry had a mild case, but I got really sick for more than four weeks. How did I survive this potentially deadly virus? There is much information on the internet on ways to take care of yourself medically if you test positive. These tips are extremely useful, like never lying on your back, and getting up and walking often. But in this article, I am giving ways to help your spirit, for keeping your spirit vital and alive is an important ingredient for healing. One important thing I did was to reach out and ask for help. I texted and emailed people I knew who believed in prayer, and I asked them to pray for me. In the beginning of my illness, I was so sick with fevers and a bad cough. I knew this virus can spread to the lungs so severely that within a matter of hours a person can die even before they make it to the hospital for help. It was a scary time for me. More than ever before in my life I knew that I needed the prayers and love from others. I texted my brother in Minnesota and asked him and his four children to
pray for me as I knew that this is a regular was such a beautiful outpouring of love act of caring all of which have the potential to part of their lives. I asked everyone I could and prayers, and that energy helped me so turn a life around.” — Leo Buscaglia n think of for help. This was both humbling much. ••• Everything people did for me helped and at the same time very empowering. It Joyce & Barry Vissell, a nurse/therapist and was humbling as I felt so vulnerable and enormously. This was a time to not be alone psychiatrist couple since 1964 and Aptos resiweak, and knew I sincerely needed help. It but to receive the love from others. This dents since 1975, are passionate about conscious was empowering because I was reaching single step in reaching out and asking for relationship and personal-spiritual growth. They out and doing some- help was so vitally important in my sur- are the authors of 9 books. Call 831-684-2130 for viving the virus. thing for myself. information on counseling sessions by phone, Another important thing I did was on-line, or in person, their books, recordings or Barry then asked me to do to focus on what I have and what was their schedule of talks and workshops. Visit their something that working, instead of only dwelling upon website, SharedHeart.org seemed absolutely the virus that was causing me to feel worse impossible. Each week since the pan- than I ever have before. In ten days, I lost demic has started, we have been posting 12 pounds and I felt like my body was NO M weekly short videos of inspiration and starving. I could not eat anything, though - TER I never lost my sense of smell and all foods music on YouTube. LONG TMENT We do not have a large following, smelled delicious. MI e COMeat e Then I discovered that I could maybe 150 people, but those people tell us Riska-Fr ! y r T o that they look forward to the videos each certain kind of white rice called Congee. My T Sunday. Barry asked me to do a video with blessed neighbor Donna made it for me. I FINISH THE YEAR STRONGER him, and asked me to ask for help on the could eat it and it made all of the difference. video. At first, I said a definite “No!” It felt I could not eat anything else but I could too scary to actually make a video with me eat this very plain almost tasteless rice. I focused on gratitude for the rice and tried feeling so sick and with a fever. In-club with a Coach At-home with a Coach In-club with a Coach At-home with a Coach Barry has gently pushed me into other to not focus on the many things I truly enjoy things in my life that I had not wanted like salads. Even though my whole body felt horto do out of fear, and I have felt grateful afterward. 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