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In reply to the discussion: I'm an RN in San Francisco. [View all]McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)between nebulizer treatments. Luckily, albuterol brings me back above 95. (Oh and before you ask, I do not have asthma or any other chronic immune condition/diabetes/heart disease and my normal oxygen saturation is 99-100) Luckily, I am physician so I know how run my own mini step down ICU at home. If my oxygen saturation gets below 90 and stays there I am going to the hospital. But I don't want to go to the hospital. I have seen first hand how understaffed hospitals are. How easy it is for a medical error to kill you (almost died twice in the past from medical error and I am a doctor).
My COVID result test will be back in another 2-3 days. And let me tell you, finding someone to test me was not easy. Because we live in the days of "Don't test, don't tell." If no one knows that their health care provider has COVID then it is business as usual for health care administrators who are thinking short term only---"What happens to my bonus if my profits/patient satisfaction slip this quarter?"--rather than remembering that health care providers are not disposable and it will be much easier to lose them to COVID 19 than to replace them.
I am trying to stay chipper for my family, but when my oxygen gets that low, I start thinking about the healthy people dying.