EP20: 3 Things to Know if You Get Sick During COVID

<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">3 Things to Know if You Get Sick During COVID</span></em></p> <p><strong><em>“If you have a fever, don't jump to the conclusion that you have COVID.”</em></strong><strong>— Melissa Batchelor, PhD, RN, FNP, FAAN (16:53-16:58)</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With more and more cases of COVID being diagnosed every day, our healthcare systems are adapting by using more telehealth and virtual office visits for primary care, and you can go get a COVID test on your own if you have any symptoms that are related to COVID - such as a fever, chills, and/or muscle aches. But there are some potential pitfalls and perils to this system, making it hard to navigate and can lead to you ending up being sicker than you needed to be if we still lived in a pre-pandemic world.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this week's episode, you'll learn about:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">3 Things to Know if You Get Sick (with anything else!) during COVID </span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Part One of ‘3 Things to Know if You Get Sick During COVID’</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">About two weeks ago, I decided to take a little vacation, as many of us are doing now that it’s summer and we’ve all been in quarantine for months. So, I rented an AirBnB and was riding a jet ski, going about twenty-five miles an hour  when I fell off and ended up hurting my back. A week after I retired from vacation, my back was doing better and I thought I was going to be ok. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On Day 8 after the jet ski tumble,  I did a webinar for something related to work and by the time I was done,  I felt terrible. I checked my temperature  and discovered I now had a new symptom: A fever.  Fevers lead to chills, followed by aching all over (including my back hurting again)...and then the story takes a turn for the worse, and there are some lessons I learned the hard way - and wanted to share them w