After the news of Bade Achhe Lagte Hain fame Nakuul Mehta testing positive for COVID-19 now his wife Jankee and son Sufi has tested positive for the virus. After recovering from the virus, the actor celebrated New Year with his wife and 11-month old son, Sufi. Unfortunately, his wife and baby have now tested positive.
Jankee Parekh recently shared a long heart-wrenching note on Instagram, where she wrote, “I somewhere always knew that a virus like Covid will get to most of us sooner or later, but what actually went down last week was something I did not foresee. While most of you may know that my husband tested positive 2 weeks ago, i also got the symptoms a couple days later. I thought not attending my sister’s wedding was the worse that covid could do to me, not realising that what I was about to experience in the coming week were to be the hardest days of my life, yet.”
Talking about how they rushed Sufi to the hospital, Jankee wrote, “Sufi started developing fever a day after I tested positive & it refused to come down inspite of water sponges & medication. We rushed him in the middle of the night to the hospital when his fever crossed 104.2 & what followed were very hard days in the Covid ICU with my baby boy. My fighter went through it all. Right from being rushed to the hospital in an ambulance, to him getting pricked 3 IVS, a bunch of blood tests, RTPCR, bottles of saline, antibiotics & injections to get his body temperature down. Sometimes, I wonder how did this tiny human get so much strength to face all of it?”
She added, “His fever finally broke after 3 days. Having to single handedly take care of Sufi 24/7 at the hospital felt exhausting. Little did I realise that a huge part of the fatigue & exhaustion was also because I was positive too.” She thanked Sufi’s nanny for entering inside the COVID ward to be with Sufi and said, “I will be forever grateful to my nanny who agreed to step in to the Covid ICU & take care of Sufi after the first two days as my body had almost given up.”
Jankee thanked Sufi’s pediatrician and the hospital staff for taking good care of Sufi, “Sufi’s pead @sonalsaste , the entire staff at SRCC Childrens hospital & esp. Dr. @samdanivinit . I cannot thank all of you enough for the timely treatment & giving us the courage to fight this. Of what we have read, Omicron is supposedly milder on adults, but to all of you with babies please do not put your guard down. Not now. Our babies cannot wear masks or get vaccinated so we need to be all the more cautious as we are coming back home to them. The idea of sharing this fight has been to make sure I can extend this awareness, even if it’s to just 1 more parent.
Also Sufi turns 11 months, today. Thank you my superhero for inspiring us by your resilience & that goofy smile which makes every storm seem so trivial in comparison.”
Celebs like Ridhi Dogra, Shrenu Parikh, Pooja Gor, Kishwer Merchant, Anita Hassanandani, Navina Bole, Ruslaan Mumtaz, Vikaas Kantari, Aslesha Savant, and many others commented to the post and sent prayers for the little one.
We wish the Sufi and Jankee a speedy recovery.