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Woke up yesterday to news that I'm COVID19 POSITIVE. I'm sure you've seen my hospital (George Mukhari) on the news and how a lot of our staff members tested positive, I'm a recent addition. I can't begin to count, how many of our patients have, in the last 3 weeks or so, tested +
Several of these patients were mine personally, and a few more belonged to my unit as a whole. I started getting a scratchy throat last week Saturday (not sore), just a little irritating but thought it was as a result of me working night shifts in during the cold front.
Anyway, the scratchy throat continued until Wednesday but was made a lot better by me drinking cal-c-vita everyday, even disappeared at one point. On Wednesday (post call) I had a bad frontal tension headache which I thought was maybe fatigue from being on call on Tuesday 16th.
But as paranoia got the best of me, I decided I should probably go and test for covid on that Wednesday post call. I hardly get sick, so haven't had a GP in years since leaving home for varsity and how for work.
Googled a GP in the Hatfield area, called them and asked if I could please get a referral to a lab in the area. I want to Pencardia lancet lab around 16h00 and had an oropharyngeal swab (OP) done (had a nasopharyngeal (NP) done previously, so was not coming to this party again).
BUT NP is generally more reliable than OP, even better to probably do both. Anyway, continued to go to work because you are expected to go until they know for sure you are postive. I took annual leave for Friday and Monday several weeks back so didnt go in on Friday.
Friday night before bed, I had a dry hayfever like feeling at the back of my nose, feeling as if the back of my nose might tear and start bleeding, a blocked nose making it a little hard to breathe. Saturday, woke up to a message (sent on Friday before 23h00) that I was positive.
Yesterday was mostly spent telling close family and friends and calling the hospital to let them know of my result and what the way forward is. Wasn't feeling too great last night, my blocked nose got worse and and started coughing a little which made my chest hurt like a bitch.
I'm currently drinking ginger and lemon hot water, cal-c-vita, acc200, panados for my occasional headache, and water mixed with herbal life aloe concentrate to stay hydrated (which sweetens the water, making it more bearable to drink because I don't usually like drinking water).
I'm feeling a lot better this morning than I did last night. Ordered more stuff from dischem yesterday to be delivered to me. My boyfriend's brother is bringing us groceries later. I live with bae so he's probably exposed, and will be testing and staying in quarantine with me.
