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1/15 OK last week or maybe 9-10 days ago I somehow contracted covid 19 or we think . The test says so . Here is a story of media hype, fear mongering, mental torture , but preparedness that helped me and mine thru this. Sat last week I got a cold or so I thought, no big deal
2/15 Saturday and Sun I sat on couch sneezed a little , coughed a little, no fever, no chills, no flu, nothing , no big deal to worry about anything hell I do everything possible to stay safe I wear the dumb mask, I rarely go anywhere and I work alone. no reason to think ..
Mon I get on treadmill which I do everyday to get my lungs ready just in case, I take my vitamins to get ready like I been since March , zinc, airborne, Vit c vit D , 2 miles then head to work , normal day but half way in my chest starts burning ....
Anyone w 4 stents like me knows that feeling so my thoughts immediately went too heart doc call him get in get EKG ....so I called and got well next week appt and no alarm blah blah dont worry but have u got a covid test? I am thinking what for , whats that got to do w anything
5/15 so Tues morning same ritual get on treadmill and burning starts again half way in so I get off call family doc get nurse she recommends covid test , now the fun begins, 7 hours of being on phone trying to go to 15 different places I cant get in anywhere. I still doubt her
6/15 finally I call back get doc on phone and tell him, he gets me in , in the hospital test. He says take "TUms" yes he did he said take TUMS.he thinks its heart burn and not anything w my heart or covid but schedules test to be safe. I finally get in get test, no call comes
7/15 next morning I get email , POSITIVE test, and now it gets more fun...all the doc and the tracers care about is who and where u been , where did u get it, NO MEDS given. I said to Doc OK get me the goods call it in , HIS response u cant get meds unless u go to hospital !!!
8/15 SO I start to get pissed , so u are telling me the only way I can get treated w all these great meds is if I go to hospital but yet at this point all I have is chest burning and a sore throat? I have to wait to get sicker or take a spot of someone else who needs it at hosp
9/15 SO I fired that Doc and called and got new one , this Doc got me Z Pack , told me to get zinc which I already was taking, and listed out a ton of over counter things I was already taking but at least I got the Z pack, and I needed it cause the sore throat was getting bad
10/15 I asked new Doc why cant I get these drugs we hear about on news every night? He said well you really need to go to hospital for those...Well SHIT no wonder hospitalizations have went up 200k getting this a day and no one is allowed to get drugs unless they go to a hospital
SO anyway I am FINE, I had sore throat pretty bad for 2 nights, ears popping , a little cold , little shakes, nothing bad for a couple nights. BUT every single person around me tested negative ...EVERYONE went ASAP ....ALL negative so how the F did I get it sitting on my couch
Honestly could it be false positive? Maybe ..but I did have a cold and sore throat until I got Z pack and that went away quickly . I really do not know and the health people do not have a clue . THey are no help at all . Head to hospital if u get worse I heard for 3 days
SO here is the actual hard part of what I went thru, it is the mental part. As u get that test result your chest sinks, u think from all the fear mongering in the media am I going to die? Did I just kill my dad ? WHo gave me this I want to kill them? All the stages of grief ..
15/20 The isolation is a pain in the ass but I work by myself anyone so I am used to that but the no interactions at night and making sure family tested negative all just really messes w u mentally. Thank God since March I prepared my mind and body that it wasnt IF it was when
16/20 every morning I got out of bed since March I said today could be the day am I ready , are my lungs ready, is my body and immune system ready. Well 10 days into it now I think I did pretty well getting there but it still wasnt fun. THe mental more then physical .
And YES even in my family I had 2 people blast me for getting this WHILE I was sick, actually yelling at me like I did something wrong instead of supporting me, people this isnt the way to help someone thru this. I know we all get scared but that isnt the way to help
So finally as I wrap this up next few days I will say look lockdowns are not the way. Support is the way, get Docs to treat it and not refuse treatment , that is ridiculous. 99.99 recover knowing that we shouldnt be scared but damn media fucks w your mind when u see positive
I applaud the small group I do hang w as they all ran and got tested immediately and ALL were negative so on Wed I will go get retested and get an antibody test to see if I really did have it and if test was accurate I will then set up to donate the plasma to help someone else
I will tell everyone please get your body ready but just as important get your mind ready. It will mess with you. I had the same feelings mentally I had when Doc said the Big C word to me yrs ago. Fear ran thru my mind til I said damn it you prepared for this. Time to deal
I didnt say anything 10 days ago or whatever cause I wanted to see how this would go and gain the knowledge and experience . I hope by sharing this someone out there will understand be safe, but expect to get it and be ready when you do.
Last thing Zinc ,Airborne, Vit BCD, dayquil Honey was game changer for throat, Z pack was incredible make them give it to you scream for it. Nasal spray too , and tylenol ..I wasnt lucky to get any of these so called wonder drugs no doc would get them for me unless hospital
