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Nov 26, 2020

Healthy Living: Roxy on COVID

Tonight, there are over two thousand, three hundred Belizeans battling COVID-19.  Most of those persons are quarantined at home. Some have no symptoms and others experience mild or moderate symptoms.  Tonight in Healthy Living, we bring you the story of one of those persons, a well-known face and voice to many Belizeans.

 

Marleni Cuellar, Reporting

She’s known for her energetic performances in her family’s band Super Furia. Typically when the singer, Roxanna Alcoser, better known as Roxy, takes the mic, she belts out popular songs without missing a beat. But, these days, the thirty-three year old can barely speak without coughing. Roxy is at home in quarantine after being diagnosed twelve days ago with COVID-19.

 

Roxanna Anderson

Roxanna Anderson, Singer, Super Furia Band

“In the back of my head, I’m like, how did this happen? You know it, just like I said, this can slip right, and you didn’t even see it. We have a whole list before you come into the house, you have to sanitize your shoes, put your clothes in the laundry, even me going to work, I have Lysol, so I spray my working area every day and my car. And the next thing you know, it’s right in your home.”

 

Roxy, her mom and her daughter tested positive for COVID-19.  Three weeks ago, her mom was the first to show symptoms and so the entire family went to a private clinic to get tested.

 

Roxanna Anderson

“Waiting for that test results, you know you’re praying, but you have to face reality, and unfortunately, my one-year-old daughter was positive, and all the rest of the family came out to be negative. And that was the rapid test. Of course, I burst into tears as a mother. Instantly we started to take measures.”

 

Those measures included isolating herself and her daughter Christina, but that also meant separating from her three-year-old son, Alexander.

 

Roxanna Anderson

“It’s hard, the hardest thing for me as a Mother. I actually along with him. This is so hard, and I just pray my daughter doesn’t get any symptoms. I pray over her body, and my son is calling me and saying, “Mama, why can’t I come home.”

 

Her daughter would only develop a skin rash from the viral disease, but a few days after isolating, Roxy started developing flu-like symptoms and tested positive for COVID-19.

 

Roxanna Anderson

“It starts very small I get the no taste and no smell, another one that makes anxiety set in. When you have the Vicks right on your nose, and I can’t smell it, and I can’t taste my food. That was the big shocker to me: Wow, what this corona can do, your body senses!  It’s a horrible feeling that anyone has to go through. You start with the throat then feel like an elephant on your chest. It’s compressing your chest and your lungs and all that. I just took it as I still have the strength to take of my child because there were times that I didn’t even want to give a bath to my daughter because I am so tired.  There came the point when I said to my husband, you have to take over because I need to go to bed. I need to take a three-hour nap because I was so exhausted I literally felt like a bulldozer went over my body, and it was just painful to through that, and you can’t breathe, you get tired and so fatigued you get tired of coughing. It was so unbearable at that point.   I do have to say I have a good husband who has played a big role. He is negative – thank God – and so is the one that he does the cleanup campaign set up.”

 

On Wednesday, Roxy shared with her Facebook followers her diagnosis. She hopes it will help reduce the stigma around the disease and pleas for the wider community to support those battling the virus.

 

Roxanna Anderson

“It’s hard for people who are not on a salary and can’t work and have to stay home for almost a month, and you have families to feed as well. I’m just saying as a community; we have to come together and help out each other and stop this coronavirus spreading.”

 

As for her little family, her daughter is awaiting her second negative test, and the siblings have been reunited.

 

Roxanna Anderson

“Christina is at day twenty-one, so her infectious has already gone. So we brought them together, and that was a joy. Yesterday we brought them together after we sanitized all the toys. That was an amazing feeling. While Momma still has to wear her mask to protect them because I’m still on day twelve.   I can’t wait to get my negative results so I can kiss them. Cause I have not kissed them nor my husband.  You guys need to do your part. It’s not all bout when you get sick you going to visit the health system and you see a lot of people you need to do your part at home so you don’t give it to someone who will have a hard time with it and its hard to see a lot of people losing their lives. It’s our responsibility not to continue spreading this coronavirus.”


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