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I’ve mentioned that I haven’t’ been feeling well for a few days. Using my amazing powers of self-diagnosis, I believe I have some sort of sinus infection/ear infection with some side symptoms like a sore throat and worsening congestion. Typical crud.
But as a cruddy person with asthma, I don’t fool around when my chest starts hurting.
When I contacted my PCP, I asked her if getting a COVID-19 test was advisable — like bloodwork, xrays, nebulizer treatments, etc. That simple question led me down a path of absurdity that I could not have imagined. The PCP’s office had all sorts of conflicting information about how to get tested and where. After telling me I had to go to a church (nope, not this lesbian) to get tested, I opted to try Walgreens.
I got myself scheduled via their website and carefully read the email instructions. We arrived about 10 minutes early and learned that the instructions were completely 100% wrong. We adapted. The test was self-administered so that was weird. And we were done. It was anticlimatic, but it was done. I had no expectation of a positive result because I almost literally see no other human beings these days.
As we pulled up in front of our house, my PCP’s office called. Oh no, not Walgreens, they said. Please come in by 11:30 AM and we’ll give you our ‘good…
