A couple who live in the Municipality of Neebing has experienced the effects of COVID-19 first hand after a trip to southern Ontario.
Alice Marie Veurink tells our newsroom the illness is nothing like she or her husband Fritz Veurink ever experienced before.
“My husband calls it a ‘hurricane’ that went through his body and he said never in his life has (he) experienced something so difficult as far as the pain goes, fever for 15 or 16 days straight and just feeling like you couldn’t do anything,” says Alice Marie.
She says she lost her sense of taste and smell and is only now starting to get them back.
The area couple is thankful to the Thunder Bay District Health Unit and their neighbours for helping them through the illness which they have now overcome.
She thought people would stay 10 miles away from their farm, “But for people to drive up and drop off things and be so kind and generous and helpful” is something the couple is very grateful for.
Veurink adds health officials were in contact with the couple every day to make sure they were able to isolate at home safely.
Alice Marie advises people to stay home and notes physical distancing is important to stopping the spread and now that the fear of the disease has left her the couple would “love to help and support anybody else that has to go through this.”
