Former Anderlecht striker Nenad Jestrovic survived his covid infection a year ago. Jestrogol’s life even hung by a thread and he saw one of his friends – whom he contaminated – not getting out of it.
Jestrovic was infected at a tennis club in Belgrade. “Ex-Parma and ex-Aston Villa Savo Milosevic was present and also tested positive, as did my wife and son. Two people in our group fell seriously ill: my wife’s tennis teacher and my son , who by the way was a friend, and me,” he told Het Laatste Nieuws. “We were together in one of five hospitals in Serbia specially equipped to receive people with covid infection. My friend died at 44, I survived.”
But that didn’t matter much to Jestrovic. He was in intensive care for 14 days. “You can’t imagine how much I suffered. I felt like a fish… but out of water. To go to the hospital for X-rays, I didn’t want to be move forward in a wheelchair. You know me huh. But I was just out of breath after walking two hundred meters. I didn’t even have the strength to take a shower. It was a disaster, I had a body temperature of 39.5 degrees. A crucial moment was on the eighth day when my fever started to drop.”
