Quarantine Journals - Doctor Evisit

I scheduled an E visit to talk to the doctor today about my worsening rib pain and the continuing cough. My breathing treatment refills are almost out, and we've gone back-and-forth on the portal a few times now without any resulting refills. So, the nurse called me and asked a few questions, gave me the zoom meeting code, and I connected with the doctor. 

So, the doctor was asking me what made the urgent care doctor think that it wasn't COVID-19. And I told her and she said that none of that actually eliminated the possibility is that that could've been it, but she recognize that the testing requirements are stringent and she doesn't see the point of testing now this far out. Richard still remains a firm believer that it is definitely not that. Regardless, she refilled my breathing treatments and said to just keep an eye out for fever, new symptoms, worsening of symptoms, and if it's not any better in two weeks, we have to do imagining and see what's going on.  She wants me to try really hard to get up and go for a 5 to 10 minute walk every day to try and condition my body to get back up and moving and see if that helps my energy level and moving the copper around more. She said that frequently with pneumonia people can pull all sorts of muscles in their chest and ribs because of the exertion from coughing. And with severe cough that there's frequently rib fractures. So she's not sure which of those could be going on right now, and that the pain could also be associated with pneumonia, so we just are going to keep a close eye on it right now because I don't want to go in unless I have too. 

She also said that Baylor is making them shut down that entire medical center over off of 635 in Las Colinas to reduce community spread. So all the doctors are being mandated to go to completely E visits only on Monday, and if patients need to come in for any reason they have to go to the only clinic that will still be open at that Baylor medical center, which is an urgent care clinic.  I asked her if they were trying to clear space for folks to use the facility for Covid 19 patients, and she said no, they're just trying to reduce in person exposure. I'm not entirely sure that this tactic makes sense to me. I do agree that they should go to a visit first and firm for most for everything that they can, but making patients go into the urgent care clinic for anything else seems like you're just going to increase exposure.

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