Covid-19 has different faces.
The disease affects everyone differently.
Six of 3,273 people affected from the district report on the course of their corona disease.
Since the outbreak of the pandemic, almost 3,300 people in the district have been infected with Corona
Many have similar symptoms
Many experience the severity of the course very differently
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen - They appear in the reports as bare numbers: The district office regularly announces how many people in Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen have been proven to have been infected with the corona virus.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, there have now been a total of almost 3300 people and thus statistically about one in 40 district residents (2.6 percent).
But there are people behind the numbers.
The Tölzer Kurier asked some of them how they experienced their Covid disease.
Heinz Fuhrmann from Icking was one of the first corona infected people in the district as early as March.
He himself describes the course of his illness as "moderate".
Everything started "like a kind of flu" with fever and aching limbs, reports the trumpeter from the group "Münchner Zwietracht".
In addition, he has lost his sense of taste.
The 60-year-old first tried to cure himself with teas, bed rest and sweating.
"But when I was panting so hard one evening while watching TV, my wife and I called our youngest daughter." She is an emergency paramedic and only had one urgent advice: "Call Sanka and go to the hospital!"
Feeling like the lungs have shrunk to the size of a raisin
Fuhrmann was hospitalized for ten days.
In addition to his general fitness through regular strength training and cycling, the fact that, as a trumpeter, he was familiar with exercises to strengthen breathing, says the Ickinger.
"In any case, breathing became easier again." Only in terms of strength, Fuhrmann was far from being back on the dam even after his discharge.
“I was on sick leave for three months,” he says.
"And it took about the end of June until I was reasonably fit again."
But its full performance has not yet returned.
When shoveling snow these days he is already panting.
The acid test of whether he would be able to withstand a concert lasting several hours is still pending: As a musician, Fuhrmann is also badly affected by the pandemic at work, and still lives on savings and a pension.
Some other respondents do not want to spread their personal medical history with their full names in the newspaper.
All names are known to the editors.
A 42-year-old Isarwinkler reported that she experienced her first symptoms as very "unspecific".
“I had a very light cough and a slightly elevated temperature, at first I didn't think anything about it,” she says.
"But then there were other symptoms: The cough got stronger, I got eye pain and headaches, and the medication didn't respond properly." When she consulted her family doctor, he advised the PCR test.
At dinner, the 42-year-old realized that she no longer tasted the mussels that were served.
"The next day I had no sense of taste at all." In the evening she was informed of the positive test result.
Her symptoms only got worse in the second week of the illness, reports the 42-year-old.
She describes a "massive loss of strength".
“Everything was too much for me, I almost only slept.
I've thought about going to the toilet three times. ”The cough got stronger.
"I felt like my lungs had shrunk to the size of a raisin." Her kidneys ached for two days.
From the outbreak of the pandemic until February 2021: 3,273 people affected in the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district
Two and a half weeks after the positive test, she says: “Now I think they're the size of an apricot.
But according to the doctor, the lungs are free. ”In general, she noticed:“ I'm not as fit as I was. ”Overall, she describes the course of the disease with the words:“ If you take two steps forward, you can take one the next day back."
Even if she was aware of how hard Covid-19 could hit older people, she underestimated the disease for herself, said the 42-year-old.
"I'm annoyed by people who downplay Corona as a simple flu."
Her husband experienced his corona infection more mildly.
He lists his symptoms: “10 to 12 days of cold, a little cough, a day of pain in the limbs and a certain shortness of breath on two to three days.” When he climbed a flight of stairs, “I had the feeling that I had a 100-meter sprint made."
You can read all information about the current Corona situation in the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district here.
The couple did not infect the rest of the family - but the PCR test was positive for one daughter too.
The symptoms came after the test, especially a sore throat and severe headache.
"It got worse every day," says the 14-year-old.
“That's when I noticed that it's not just a cold.” Even without a high fever, she simply had no strength for days.
"I just wanted to lie there."
"Found the isolation worse than the symptoms"
Peter Nagy (53) from Wackersberg reports a “relatively mild course”.
“At first I had a slightly elevated temperature and symptoms of colds,” he says.
That's why he went to the doctor.
"There I had to take a corona smear right away and received the positive result two days later."
He didn't find the time in quarantine really tragic - but in the end it seemed "worse" than the virus itself. "After two weeks it was all over, and thanks to the hygiene measures I have demonstrably not infected anyone."
A 21-year-old woman from Lenggries made it easier for this fact.
Despite mild cold symptoms, she did not initially think that she might have been infected - but went to the test after an infection was found in the mother of her boss.
In the course of her isolation, she developed a fever and a little cough, the young woman reports.
“I kept my distance from my family as much as possible and was in my room most of the time,” she says.
"Personally, I found the isolation almost worse than the symptoms." The health department contacted her every two days.
"And I was able to use the time for phone calls with friends." (Andreas Steppan and Anna Nagy)
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