Double-vaxxed Sydney mum with COVID-19 shares message from hospital
A North Sydney woman who contracted COVID-19 after getting her second vaccination says her situation proves how vital it is for everyone to comply with lockdown restrictions.
The single mother-of-two, Louise, was admitted to the Royal North Shore Hospital on Sunday after developing chest pains.
The 53-year-old said she was stunned when her COVID-19 test came back positive on Friday and she still has no idea where she was exposed to the virus.
She now faces an agonising wait to find out if she has passed the virus on to her 22-year-old son, Reggie, who has a chronic lung disease.
Speaking to 9News.com.au yesterday from her hospital bed, Louise – who asked for her surname to be withheld – said she decided to get a COVID-19 test on Friday, in an abundance of caution, after developing a runny nose.
"I had a runny nose last Wednesday. I'd had a sinus infection and I thought it might just be that loosening up finally," she said.
Louise said her initial symptoms were also similar to hay fever, which she commonly gets around this time of year.
However, Louise decided to get tested for COVID-19 because she needed to visit an elderly client's home as part of her work as an IT consultant.
"It came back positive, thankfully I didn't go to see her," she said.
Louise said she had been following all the lockdown and COVID-safe regulations "to the letter" for the past three months, in part because she was so worried about contracting the virus and passing it on to her son.
Louise's son Reggie, pictured with his sister Jessica.
Louise's son Reggie, pictured with his sister Jessica. (Supplied)
"I've been running and operating my business remotely as much as possible," she said.
"I have ordered all groceries online, I don't drink coffee or go to the shop twice a day to get one, I wear a mask at all times outdoors.
"I don't live in a hot zone, haven't been to a hot zone, haven't been a close contact.
"But somehow I have it."
Louise said she received her second Pfizer vaccination a week before she tested positive, making it possible her immune system was still developing a response to the jab.
Nurses and doctors had been checking in on her regularly via phone since her diagnosis, and, when she reported feeling chest pains on Sunday, she was admitted to hospital.
Tests have cleared her heart of any abnormalities and no clots have shown up on her lungs, Louise said, adding she expected to recover from the virus well.
This morning Louise was released from hospital.
So far all of Louise's family, including Reggie, have tested negative to COVID-19.
Reggie, who is now isolating at his father's home, was born with a chronic lung condition similar to cystic fibrosis.
With a reduced lung capacity of around 45 per cent, he is at severe risk of COVID-19.
"For me to be the one that might potentially give it to him, it's just the most devastating thing … I can barely talk about it without crying," Louise said.
"We have just always thought if he gets COVID he's going to die."
"When he left the house, he was telling me what his dying wishes were," she said.
Louise said her message to COVID-19 sceptics or those skirting lockdown laws because of a misguided sense of entitlement was simple – "just stay at home".
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