“I Got Ebola from My Dying Mum and Survived”- Alhassan Kemokai

My mum died on the 19^th of July so I was observing myself…19^th…20^th… I moved to another room after the infection. On the 28^th, I started feeling a fever. I told my wife and children not to come near me please. When I discovered I was infected with the disease, I had to abandon my room and moved into another room where I was sleeping.

It is a single bed with a foam mattress. These bedding and clothing have now been discarded by my wife. They are now preparing for burning. She has burned most of the things that were in my room.

I have been admitted for the past 11 to 12 days in the Ebola ward. And I’m very excited that I’m out today. I see myself as a free man.

When I was walking (to the hospital) everyone was looking at me. I was very sad as I was going. I was shivering. Every 10, 15, or 20 minutes, I had to go to the toilet. I used the pathway to get to the hospital, the bush route. I trekked three miles to Kenema Hospital.

I felt like I was in another world (at the isolation ward of the hospital), that the nurses were indeed angels that the two books, the Bible and the Qu’ran, describe when you die, people will come and judge you. That the angels will come and judge you.

When we saw nurses we could hardly identify them. Each time I saw them I thought they were angels coming to question me.

I walked among corpses. It is terrible. I’ve seen today one, two, three corpses come out, I am very excited. I am very happy. I am out in the world today.

Now I play with my son. Now that I’m out of the hospital I play with my entire family. I play with Miza. We are now playing together. We do things together. We eat together. We do everything together.

Story of an Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) survivor in Sierra Leone.

Spread the message of hope coming from the body’s ability to fight not FEAR.

Kemokai was able to defeat Ebola because he had a solid immune system. Are you thinking of how to boost yours today?

Culled from: The Guardian, Tuesday, August 26, 2014.

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