@SteveBuick2 @shandro @tarajago @MattWolfAB 1...Yesterday I was notified a patient of mine was COVID+. I met him on March 25 for unrelated concerns. I went into isolation yesterday, until 14 past March25=April9 am...2
2...But I vowed to deliver the best damned virtual care I could to my patients so they don’t have to miss their appnts. This morning I woke with disabling vertigo, I can’t sit up without vomiting now, as it progresses...3
3...my family is distanced so as to not be at risk (diff town) I am alone. I can’t make food. This first happened March 19th. Fearful it was a stroke I got a CT but only after rounding on my patients. Then days later it subsided. Neurologist said it could be a stroke...4
4...or vestibular neuritis. I feel too foolish to to phone 911. Geez I’m only 47, I shouldn’t be stroking. But this feels like something bigger than a neuritis. I am going to watch how this goes. But in the meantime I am making my Monday patient...
5...phone calls because I don’t know what Monday will hold. My mortgage is going to fall through, it is costing me more to keep a clinic open than what I am making, but my patients need me. I hear my life insurance won’t pay out during a pandemic...6
6...what will my family do, a whole family came together to get one member through med school. We put all our eggs in my basket, now my family might be left with nothing...7
7...but I want people to know that this is what delivering medicine is during a pandemic. This govt has lied to you, so they can make side financial deals. If this is a stroke and it evolves...8
8...I want it to be know that it was more than the circumstances around COVID that took me down. I want them to know it was Shandro and Kenney and their f’ing evil destruction of hesthcsre that did this, that stacked the odds aganst us all...9
9...all Albertans. Jesus my lift fingrrrd nor twitch...5yler your f’ing evil
1...When i started falling to the left, that is when I swallowed my pride and broke isolation to get checked out. On exam Massive Epleys reaction to the left, but simply wouldn’t fatigue even after 5 minutes. MRI is tomorrow morning. Still vertigo present at all times...2
2...I will be ok. Thank you for all the support. And thank you for all the staff in the hospital that recognized our efforts opposing healthcare destruction. But while I wait for the MRI I have patients to return phone calls to.
And thank you to Mr Shandro. No one need to to pay for parking
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