After six days hospitalized with severe dengue fever,
journalist Roxy Vázquez was discharged and is now home
.
When consulted by
Clarín
, she told how she experienced her arduous recovery.
“
I still have low defenses, so I have to rest at home
,” he began explaining.
Then, she told what measures he is using to improve: “I have to draw blood every day to
control blood cells and platelets
,” she added.
As for food care, Roxy said she is following a strict diet of protein and vegetables, and that all food must be cooked.
"I feel very weak.
I am a mine always plugged into 220 and now I am super slowed down
”, she lamented with anguish, for having had to suspend her personal and work activities due to this illness.
“My message phone exploded.
Incredible.
In that sense
I feel loved
,” added the journalist, about the unconditional support of her loved ones during her hospitalization in the Sanatorio la Trinidad Palermo.
Roxy Vázquez recounted her recovery process on air
Roxy also
told how she experienced the hard recovery process
on air, via telephone, on
Tempraneros
(TN), the news program of which she is co-host with Sergio Lapegüe.
The driver began by recounting the first symptoms that his partner felt when he was still working.
He explained that
Roxy started having headaches
but, despite that, decided to continue going to the channel.
Roxy Vázquez showed images of her hospitalization.
Capture Instagram.
“
I felt a strong pain behind my eyes, as if a dagger had been stabbed into me
.
Unlike Covid, my body hurt a lot too.
It wasn't just a fever, it was pain, muscle pain, bone pain," the journalist said.
Next, he described what his first steps were at the end of his workday: “I got home, I went to bed and
I kind of fainted
.
Two hours later when I woke up, I woke up worse, with more pain.
My arms, my legs, my head hurt, everything hurt.”
On the other hand, Roxy said that she lost her appetite and that, when she tried to eat something, the feeling was even worse: “I couldn't eat.”
“
After a while, she was on the floor.
Shaking.
Broken down, I vomited everything
,” she said.
“Julián came and took me to the doctor.
There were many people waiting at the guard, and I couldn't sit still anymore.
I threw myself on the chairs because my body was shaking like a leaf.
It was 40 degrees and had 4.5 pressure
,” the TN journalist continued.
Once attended to by the doctor on duty,
Roxy fainted, and by the time she woke up, she was lying in the sanatorium bed
.
“I didn't understand anything, I thought about the boys.
It affected my liver, I didn't feel like eating, I had a milky taste in my mouth, the food had no flavor.
They gave me serum.
It was the worst thing that happened to me,” she explained and highlighted the attention received by the health personnel at the Sanatorio de la Trinidad Palermo.
And he continued: “I had a fever for four or five days.
She went down and up.
It is treated with paracetamol and nothing else
.
Be calm.
I asked for diclofenac for muscle pain and they told me 'no', everything is contraindicated.
“Just wait for the body to release the virus.”
Sergio Lapegüe sent his support to Roxy Vázquez during her hospitalization.
Capture Instagram.
Regarding her current condition, already discharged and at home, the driver added: “I continue to draw blood every day because my platelets and white blood cells have dropped a lot.
I can walk but I am very weak, very weak
.
They told me to try not to see people so as not to catch another disease.
"It's a mosquito, it's a second."
In addition, Lapegüe asked him how his sons, Rocco, 13, and Pedro, 2, dealt with his illness. “They brought Pedrito to me for a little while one of the days.
He wanted to rip out the cables,
he grabbed my little hand and told me 'come on, mommy, let's go'
.
Now I can't hold him up, I can't use force.
And Rocco told me 'what are you doing here, mommy?
Stop fucking around.
They are used to seeing me with batteries so it is very strange.
But they managed, the parents behaved very well,” she added.
Finally, Roxy told what precautions she is taking for her recovery: “I have to follow a special diet, everything cooked.
I can't eat dairy.
I'm going to be tired and weak for a few months.
I have to take good care of myself, be calm.
“I'm not the same
, I can't do 72 things at once like before,” she concluded.
D.D.