Collected Item: “Going to the doctor during the pandemic”
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Going to the doctor during the pandemic
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Me and my mother drove down to Dell Children's hospital as we always do for our PT. Wednesday are busy days for them, so we parked on the second floor of the parking garage. My knees were feeling bad that day so we took the elevator. A family of three were also taking the elevator, and since the max capacity was four people we had to wait.
We walked into the medical center (fully masked of course) but before we could leave the entryway we had to have our temperatures taken (mine was 97.1, like always) and answer a few questions
"Have you had any symptoms? Fever? Headache? Coughing? Sore throat? Is anybody in your house being currently tested for COVID?" and since all the answers "no" we could enter. I've had a few days where I felt fine enough to go but because I had a headache I couldn't.
The waiting room wasn't packed by any sense of the word, but since we had to make sure to keep our distance from other people we couldn't sit down anywhere.
My PT (Physical Therapist) called me in, and we exercised for an hour, fully masked, which makes it a lot more uncomfortable, also making sure to keep our distance from everybody else.
I went out afterwards and my mom and I went in our car, put some hand sanitizer on, and left to repeat the process next week.
We walked into the medical center (fully masked of course) but before we could leave the entryway we had to have our temperatures taken (mine was 97.1, like always) and answer a few questions
"Have you had any symptoms? Fever? Headache? Coughing? Sore throat? Is anybody in your house being currently tested for COVID?" and since all the answers "no" we could enter. I've had a few days where I felt fine enough to go but because I had a headache I couldn't.
The waiting room wasn't packed by any sense of the word, but since we had to make sure to keep our distance from other people we couldn't sit down anywhere.
My PT (Physical Therapist) called me in, and we exercised for an hour, fully masked, which makes it a lot more uncomfortable, also making sure to keep our distance from everybody else.
I went out afterwards and my mom and I went in our car, put some hand sanitizer on, and left to repeat the process next week.
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#hospital, #protectionmeasures
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David Gerber
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2021-08-25T13:03