A Calgary woman is thankful to be back home after being diagnosed with COVID-19 and living through a nationwide lockdown in Spain.
Carmen Lee, 23, was working as an au pair in Barcelona and diagnosed with COVID-19 on March 13. She returned to Calgary on March 25.
She said her symptoms started with a bad cough, a fever and lung discomfort. “Breathing wasn’t comfortable,” Lee said from her parents’ home in Calgary. “Every time I was breathing in, I felt like I wanted to cough because my lungs were very irritated. “I had friends when I was in Barcelona who had different symptoms from me.
Some people had no symptoms at all and some people only had a fever. Some people only had the cough. “I was really baffled by how variable the symptoms could