We spent four hours in the ER with my husband last night. I carry anti-viral masks so we put them on as soon as we went in. Half the people in the waiting room had them on. I always wear one during flu season but it seemed like more were wearing them this year.
When we went into the triage room to answer health questions and have his BP and temp taken the nurse asked if we had been out of the country in the last 10 months. No. Then she asked if we had been to NY, Chicago, and one other state, maybe NJ and we said no.
My husband had surgery at Vanderbilt on Tuesday for Achalasia. He also has poison oak on his left arm. His arm was swollen yesterday afternoon and when I called Vandy they said take him to the ER to check for a blood clot. Vandy is three hours from us. Anyway, no blood clot, just swelling from the poison oak. All he got was a steroid shot. Now I’ll worry for a week if he picked up anything at the ER. He kept his mask on and I kept rubbing him down with sanitizer so maybe we will escape getting sick. I can stand it but he’ll be back in the hospital if he gets a virus of any kind. He’s 82 and even without the surgery a virus would be bad.
This is in a Seattle suburb. I'm sort of nosy enough to go there to see what's up. But, if it means risking getting this thing - I'd rather not. Makes me wonder what is going on. We have a HUGE population of Asians (mostly Chinese) in our area now - within the last 10 years I suppose it has just gone crazy.