Steemit Engagement Challenge Season8 Week1: My learning during the pandemic

A quick introduction, my name is Thomisin and I am a health practitioner I love anything health-related, and the pandemic thought us lots of lessons. The COVID-19 pandemic was an undoubtedly challenging and transformative time for people across the globe which brought about significant changes in the way we work, socialize, and interact with ourselves and the world around us. Many of us around the world have learned a lot during the pandemic and we have gained several insights and experiences. The pandemic has taught us a lot of valuable lessons and I will be sharing my experience in this post.

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What do you consider to be the main lesson you learned from the pandemic?

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The pandemic thought us a lot of lessons and as an individual placing more concern for my health was one of the major things I learned. Since I work at a hospital, I am used to assisting patients in the hospital in cases of emergency even without knowing the type of ailments or conditions they suffer from. I remembered a day when a patient was rushed into the hospital and I needed to assist. I didn't remember to use gloves because I was rushing to help the patient but then I was able to assist the patient. Do not crucify me yet, it happens with people in the medical field but when the pandemic came, I knew I had been taking a lot of things with levity. I knew I didn't care much about my health but I was always caring for others. The pandemic made me understand that I could have been infected by other patients during the process of helping them on days when I forget to use my gloves. I understood the extent of my carelessness with my health while trying to care for others. Other lessons I learned with the pandemic include understanding that we need to love one another. The pandemic also made me understand that things can change very fast and technology was indeed needed to make our lives easier.

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Did you have any loss of family or friends because of the pandemic? Can you tell us about it?

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While I didn't lose any close family or friends to the pandemic, I commiserate with people who lost loved ones and friend to the pandemic. I volunteered during the period of the pandemic to help at isolation centers to help bring medical stuffs and other materials to the center.

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What was the most difficult moment during the pandemic?

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The most difficult part of the pandemic for me was dealing with my mental health. I was scared of losing my life seeing different people who had the virus struggling to survive. I was not allowed to leave the Isolation center and the store. I was had to live with that for months and for the first few weeks, it was intense. I was fully protected by the protective gown even though I was not close to people who had the virus. The social distance in the center was enough to make a person safe. Other people outsife had difficulty getting food items and so many people were stranded as they didn't have any job to do. I got stipends for my voluntary service and although i wasn't able to use the money earned during the lockdown period, but it did became useful after the lockdown period.

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After all that process, do you value your health more?

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This is a question I guess you if you have been following my post, you already know my answer. I was scared during th heat of the pandemic and I was at the fronttline helping people, so I must say that with all sincerity that I am very much concern and careful with matters that relate to my health. I have learned to cherish every moment that I have, and become more safety oriented. I do not forget to use my nose mask even till date, and i am always changing my gloves all the time.

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Did the pandemic impact your finances positively or negatively? How did you cope?

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Majority of the people around the world had a negative experience with their finance because a lot of company retrenched workers, so many didn't pay salary of workers since they were closed but I would say that my finance was positively impacted as I was paid for my services. I was happy i wasn't anywhere close to the patients but I was able to work and generate income during the pandemic. I did fine during the pandemic since feeding wasn't a concern of mine since several agencies and bodies provided feeding to volunteer workers during this period.

I must confess that the pandemic was a period to learn and moving forward, we must take these lessons to heart.

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I am inviting: @goodybest, ngoenyi, and @ruthjoe