Hi everybody!
I am writing this on behlf of member 'dwegan', who is not well enough for something like at the moment. My name is Sigrid Egan.
Before I came upon this site, I planned to find a place to write about experience with the Corona Virus infection, that hit both ,y husband I about 4 + weeks ago.
We didn't know for another 2 weeks what had hit us. We had symptoms but nothing described by the health professionals, CDC or the daily briefing of guru, Dr. Fauci.
We live in the Arizona desert town and just thought, going to the mountains for the summer months would fix it all. Well we apent a week at 7000 ft but were not well all this time and returned to our home after one week.
I started this whole thing with panic attacks for no explainable reason, no fever, no cough, just enormous uneasiness. My husband, who has had PD for 10 years and is not eating well, just stopped eating pretty much alltogether.
So we returned home and I went immediately to my family doctor for blood, urine the usual And requested a covid test. It came back after 3 days as positive. That meant, my husband was infected surely. He was taken tomthe ER a few mirnings later be ause he was so weak, he asked for it. After a day and a night, he was discharged back home and had been intravenously fed.
We got sicker and sick..er. I have also COPD and am used to being short of breath.
What I went through in the following 2 weeks, I wish on nobody. Waves of sensations starting in the back of my head, working its way thru my body grabbing my lungs. It felt like dying slowly.
Here is where I want to appeal to the medical society, especially, in Scottsdale, AZ, that my team of doctors were totally detached from my infection.
I would call daily asking for help, asking for the doctor to talk to me , but I could only leave messages and received messages. It was always negative.
At a minimum, my doc should have prescribed an oximeter, that I finally borrowed from a friend. That friend, lucky for me, had gone through covid with very similar symptoms. She remains my only source of info.
Then, my Pulmonologist or her office were absolutely useless. A telemedicine appt. should have taken place about 2 hrs or so late, when I did not expect it anymore. I missed the call and was told by this stupid receptionist, that I now need to wait another two weeks. I begged to at least have the doc call me, so I could asked my question about side effects from Spiriva.
I am very inclined to make formal complaint to the Maricopa Medical Board.This treatment I received has to unethical, at the very least non-compassionate. That is NOT what we need from our doctors.
I have no place to go, I need to speak at least to a lung doctor, because I have breathing problems, but during this pandemic, where can I go. The ER seems to be the preferred place to get rid of ones patient. Abominable, to put it mildly.
We have never felt sooooo alone during in illness and we are both 80 ! generally, in good health. I have been through operations, very serious ones, this here tops it.
Shame on all doctor offices and especially their staff, who need training desperately.
I very much welcome comments to " The lonliest disease of all, Covid19"
Sigrid