When Covid19 first started taking off, COPD patients were told to self isolate, being listed as high risk. In two days, this dropped off their list of high risk. (totally fine with who was on there, they are high risk) But I felt like dropping the COPD folks kind of cold. Thrown to the wolves kind of thing.
My doctors office stopped answering the phone. Two weeks ago I find a link to make a phone consult with a doctor, I sign up. (You couldn’t request a time frame, it gave you a time, take it or go away. I took it, although it was very early in the morning. Basically, I got two hours sleep before I had to get up to take it. I’m a night owl, usually falling asleep around five AM.) She confirms I had covid19. I ask why I’d not got a letter from the medical system, advising me to stay at home, ect ect. She tells me, flat out, COPD is not high risk. Lists each type of person who is. She was nice about it, but I still felt like ‘fuck you and your pansy illness’ was the bottom line.
A couple of days ago I got an email from the doctors office, telling me I was in the high risk category. I now had a letter I could give to my employer, a sick note, as it were. (I’m disable, yo, and don’t work). Thing is, I didn’t know if she’d bumped me up the food chain and got me listed, or not.
Turned out, not. The gov’s lists of high risk has changed. COPD (asthma, ect) are now listed as high risk.
At least I know my doctors office doesn’t hate me enough to wish me dead. Yeah, yeah, of course they wouldn’t. But shit happens. One time they held my medications hostage until I came in for a blood test. So, yeah, they’re human too, and ‘mistakes’ happen.
edit: sorry this got a bit whiney. I’m feeling a bit touchy.
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