i don't even know where to begin
with this whole situation i definitely
did not anticipate uh getting covered
two months after i was vaccinated uh
when the whole past year and a half
since the pandemic really began i have
been
traveling and as far as i know
i don't think i had it before but let me
actually backtrack with how i think this
even started because i will say i did
have symptoms i did have symptoms i did
not think they were covered but after
doing some research i definitely had all
the symptoms of a breakthrough case
where i think everything really began
was when i was in
and i think it was my second or third
day there and as you guys know i was
staying in a hostel and
unfortunately one of the girls in my
room was definitely sick like she was
coughing she didn't feel well but she
said that she went and got a
rapid antigen test and it had come back
negative and while rapid antigen tests
are better than nothing they aren't as
sensitive as a pcr test so i don't know
for sure if it was from her
that i got sick but i really wasn't
around
you know anybody else
uh that i think showed symptoms so
either i got it from somebody who is
asymptomatic or i got it from her and
she did have covid but basically for the
last two days that i was in nipro i
noticed that i was beginning to feel
sick too
uh i was quite tired just like lethargic
it was really hard to
get all my work done that i had planned
there and i started to kind of have a
runny nose and some congestion i didn't
have a cough i didn't have a fever so i
really just brushed it off as oh well
you know i got the cold or something
that uh the lady in my room had you know
no big deal i'll sleep it off and in a
few days i'll be fine and while i was in
nepal i actually ended up getting a
phone call uh about a cosmetic procedure
that i wanted to get done uh here in
kiev while i was here i thought there
was no availability with the doctor i
wanted
but uh they had called me and said
actually we do have availability can you
come on you know tuesday or wednesday
and i was like okay great i'll actually
come back to kiev for like a week or
whatever and then uh i'll continue on
with my exploration of the eastern part
of the country and then once i got to
kiev unfortunately i did begin to feel a
bit worse i would say that the most
predominant
symptom that i had that was really
bothering me was the worst congestion
i've ever had where not only i couldn't
really breathe through my nose but i had
like sinus pain like all throughout my
face
everything really hurt i was really
tired once again i was sneezing a lot
which was very strange
and uh i just didn't feel well but
because i was supposed to get this
procedure and they uh required a covid
test uh before you could do it uh that's
that's why i went for the test otherwise
to be honest i probably would have just
you know
slapped it off or something
but uh i went and got the test about
three days before
i was scheduled for my appointment
and you can imagine
my shock
when it came back positive and when i
found out i actually felt really bad
because i was literally in like a mall
food court i'm just like oh my god i
have kovit and i'm like sitting in a
public space eating uh so i didn't even
finish my meal i just like put on my
mask and i left thankfully uh as far as
my family here in kiev
technically everybody already sort of
sort of had it or was protected like my
uncle aunt and misha they all had covet
about three months ago
and then my cousin nastya had gotten the
vaccine
also about two to three months ago so
thankfully i felt like overall they
should be okay obviously my cosmetic
procedure was also
put on hold until i felt better and for
the next week while i got better i
really just stayed in my room at the
apartment i was actually really grateful
that
i had my family there to
go get groceries and you know
take care of me so to say thankfully i
didn't feel so bad that i needed to go
to a doctor or a hospital it really was
just that congestion that was bothering
me so much so i tried to do some home
remedies to kind of make that go away
and then i also had my cousin go to the
pharmacy and get me some like you know
sinus pain stuff some tablets for that
so that helped clear that up and what
was also confusing about the situation
is that i didn't know
you know exactly how long i should be
isolating because here in ukraine like
nobody even called me like the clinic
knew obviously that i tested positive
didn't even call me they just sent me
the email showing that i tested positive
no directions or instructions about like
isolation or like numbers to call if you
don't feel well so because in ukraine
they weren't really giving me any
direction i ended up going on the
canadian and american health websites to
see what they recommend and basically
they said if you are somebody who was
vaccinated and got coveted
count 10 days from the start of your
symptoms and if you're not really sick
at the end of that then overall you
shouldn't be contagious but just to be
sure i did want to go get a test to
actually
prove that and in this particular case i
did decide to do a rapid antigen test
just because i wanted to know right away
if i was contagious or not and also
because the false
negatives that usually come up on rapid
antigens
are before you actually catch covid so i
for sure already knew i had covet i just
wanted to know if i was currently
contagious and to be honest i thought it
was going to come back positive again
because i heard a lot of people say that
even when you're not contagious some
people continue to test positive for
like weeks on end so i went and got the
test done was expecting that it would
come back
positive but uh once again
to my surprise uh it came back negative
now some people try to say that maybe
the pcr test was you know a false
positive they can happen though they are
supposed to be very rare
obviously i don't know for sure but what
i will say is that the symptoms that i
did have
i did find out are some of the most
common that people have if you're a
breakthrough case that really is the
difference like if you are getting
covered for the first time most people
usually have the most common symptoms
like coughing fever a lot of the other
scary sort of stuff but for me having
been vaccinated apparently the most
common symptoms for breakthrough cases
are exactly what i had like head cold
sort of symptoms where you have a runny
nose you're sneezing you have a bit of a
headache you're really tired and you
don't really have the
coughing and fever sort of symptoms so
sure it could have been a false positive
to begin with but just because i was
actually feeling sick when i did test
positive i have a feeling i did actually
get it thankfully nobody in my house
also ended up getting sick or having any
kind of symptoms so that made me feel
better because i would feel really bad
you know to have passed it on to
somebody else who maybe doesn't have um
you know as strong of an immune system
so it really is just one of those kinds
of situations where you can't contain it
a hundred percent and uh here in ukraine
currently the situation really isn't
good covid wise i think they are having
like the largest spike in cases that
they've had
probably in this whole pandemic like
just yesterday i think we had our
highest case numbers of like 21 000
cases in a day and like
400 deaths
like it's bad and i think that is
primarily because ukraine is a very
vaccine hesitant sort of country i think
there's only 18 percent of people that
have gotten vaccinated so far and
obviously the rules are super lacks here
and uh it is kind of cold and flu season
as well so that is the current uh
situation it's basically two weeks now
after the fact after i had tested um
negative and i ended up uh
just staying here instead of going
somewhere else just because i had a
whole bunch of other stuff happen it's
actually been a very crazy month like
october has been one of the most
intense
months
of my life and i know i'm kind of
leaving you guys hanging about like all
the other stuff that happened and all of
that and i will actually be touching on
it um
in future videos but i'm just in the
process of
getting everything sorted uh before i
leave ukraine
in literally two weeks from now i have
so many things i still want to do here
in kiev before that happens so uh yeah
so that is it guys that is my story uh i
am sending you lots of love stay safe
and healthy and keep being your own kind
of beautiful bye guys
you