Bangkok Beckons: Prannoy Back from COVID-19
After a refreshing training stint in his home city Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), HS Prannoy felt in great shape as he left for the national camp in Hyderabad at the end of October.
· DEV SUKUMAR
As luck would have it, the world No.28 went down with COVID-19.
“It’s a very different kind of illness,” says Prannoy. “The major problem is psychological. If you feel any pain, you think it’s due to Covid. Mentally, you are very stressed for two weeks, because you don’t know what’s going to happen, and doctors aren’t able to tell you either. My condition never went bad, but you don’t know what it’s doing to your body. I’ve had a weird pain in my ribcage, but everything looks normal on an X-ray or MRI. There are side-effects, and you are on heavy medication, which makes your body weak.”
Prannoy resumed training only in the second week of December, and he’s not looking too far ahead with the Asian Leg set to begin next week.