Sorry, thank you. My experience was difficult during COVID because I was working, I’m a physician, I was working in a respiratory clinic at the time.
So it wasn’t if you’re going to get COVID, it was when, because they were just making a C patient after patient with all these symptoms. And sure, when I was a resident, we had to practice, you know, dressing up and stuff and the protective equipment, but we had to work like that all day long. Masks, they wouldn’t even let us take our masks off unless we were going to eat lunch. We couldn’t leave the clinic. We had to stay there. And they fed us so they would cater food and bring it in. So it was very isolating. And it was it was very uncomfortable. I mean, to wear that equipment all day long is even difficult to communicate that way, especially for patients that might be speaking another language.
And maybe they couldn’t hear or understand what you were saying, because you always had to have your masking gown. And then I got COVID. And it was awful. And I consider myself a pretty healthy lady.
I didn’t get sick, like I didn’t miss one day of a three year residency program. And I was down for three weeks. But I got it in the very beginning of COVID. So it really took a toll on me. It seems that COVID plays on your weaknesses. And so for me being an insomniac, I couldn’t sleep. So I was sick, but I couldn’t get well. And so it took me a really long time to recover from COVID. And it also left me with like, permanent symptoms of this chronic fatigue that I’ve been kind of battling. Now I’ve finally got it under control, but it was very difficult.
Yeah. So that’s my experience.
