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Kyle Anderson: I feared I wouldn’t wake up again
Kyle Anderson had a coughing fit with Covid-19 and admitted: I feared I wouldn’t wake up again.
Only seven days ago the Australian finally tested negative for coronavirus after three weeks with the disease.
Now he will line-up in the PDC Home Tour from his home in Perth but revealed he feared he wouldn’t make it through the illness.
Spaking to Phil Lanning for Colossus, Kyle Anderson said: “There was one time at night when I woke up and I was coughing. Then I thought to myself and this might be morbid, am I going to wake up from this? ”
“I had a coughing fit and I thought to myself: ‘Is this it? Will I fall asleep and not wake up?’ Thank God I woke up. It was very real for me. I was scared to the point where I didn’t know what would happen next.”
Kyle Anderson flew back to Australia from his Chesterfield base on the eve of lockdown. But then he contracted the virus on the way back Down Under and he admits he broke down and cried. He added: “I was isolated for 14 days initially because I had come back from international travel. ”
“I got to the house here and saw my wife for a day and then I went to our former house where the in-laws live. I have got a portable house at the back. I went and stayed there.”
“Within the first three days I developed a cough. Unfortunately during that time my uncle passed away. So I said on no uncertain times, stuff it, I am coming back to the family, I need the family.”
“I got home and my cough didn’t get worse but it was more persistent. My wife and I got tested and my son, too. On the Sunday morning it was only me that got positive.”
“When that happened, I didn’t know what the outcome would be, the uncertainty, so I sat down and cried. She said it would be okay. I went to the in-laws and for the first week I had a persistent cough and after that I was just normal. No symptoms no fever, no snotty nose, nothing. But I went for three weeks of that until the bug left.”
“It was everything. To me, it doesn’t sound outlandish but in my eyes it was like the AIDS epidemic when it first came out.”
“No-one knew what was going to happen. No-one knew what the outcome was. I heard stories that being diabetic you will be more susceptible to getting it. You are more prone to being ill.”
“I am a diabetic so straightaway that made me shit myself. That made me think ‘I am next on the bill’. It’s hard to think like that. When it hits you, you do think more about the ‘what ifs’ more than the okays.”
“On the Saturday, I got a phone call from mum. She said: ‘Your uncle has passed away from a heart attack.’ It was nothing to do with Covid-19.”
“He said he had a sore shoulder. He went around the back for a smoke, rolled the smoke and then they heard this awful thud on the ground. That was it in a nutshell. It was very much traumatic.”
“If a family member has passed away the only thing you want to do is be with your family and again lawfully I couldn’t do it as I was in isolation. There was word out here if you left your house and you had Covid or had been internally travelling and went out and caught, then it would be six months jail and up to 50,000 dollars fine.”
Kyle Anderson will play in the Home Tour against Daniel Larsson, Martin Schindler and Dirk van Duijvenbode in his garage alongside his car, caged birds and washing machine!
He added: “My set-up it’s in the garage. The darts are put away normally when I am at home. This one has cobwebs on it but it does the job when it’s used. The only thing you would hear are my birds!”
Saturday May 9th
Kyle Anderson v Daniel Larsson
Martin Schindler v Dirk van Duijvenbode
Daniel Larsson v Dirk van Duijvenbode
Kyle Anderson v Martin Schindler
Martin Schindler v Daniel Larsson
Dirk van Duijvenbode v Kyle Anderson
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