Bob, I had a couple of ibuprofen that I gave to DF for the inflammation. We were in the wilderness miles from anything. We couldn't be sure what we had. She was refused testing because she had tested negative days before. I couldn't get results for two weeks, between being bedridden and alone in the wilderness and getting back and then waiting to get the results, after I had been initially refused testing. All we knew was that some of our symptoms were Covid-19 like. DF thought that it was altitude for a couple of days. I gave her salt for that, no change. More likely Covid than altitude after being up in the hills for several days with no altitudinal effects and then getting extreme symptoms. Altitude doesn't work like that.
So, any meds, let alone untested meds were very much out of the question, you need to be hospitalized and serious enough for a doctor to prescribe something that has no proof of being effective. If it was available, I'd probably just ride it out instead. I didn't believe that it works, by the stats, at the time, so all other things happening, I didn't even consider it.
I had some opiates with tylonal, which might have helped the symptoms, but decided to leave them in the bottle. With a horrid headache, dizzy, trouble breathing, I didn't want to add constipation to the list. It was a lot to just get up and take a leak in the woods for a couple of those days. Talking on the phone was a chore. I figured that I had a mild case and my body would just get over it, like DF's did.
We were very careful, I sure didn't want to get a cough. My hernia is so bad it would have put me in the hospital. DF works in healthcare, so when she told me that a couple of cases had shown up where she works, and the crappy precautions that were being taken, I was alarmed. I thought it a great time to retreat to the mountains, but it was too late. We were taking care, she left her clothes outside when she got home from work, we left our shoes out there, saw nobody, masks, hand cleansers in the cars, no cash, then Banner Health corporate greed decided to make a buck by risking all of the patients and employees health and lives.
It was Banner Health corporate policy that refused me a test, because I had had symptoms over seven days. So much for my opinion of private healthcare, they'll sell us out for the bottom line every time. Only a Doctor override got me tested. I didn't want a test, but was told that we needed to be sure that it wasn't something else and Covid test was the only way to get the ball rolling in that direction. I went in because CDC said that my symptoms warranted it. I might be in danger.
Yea, I'm tired of catching seemingly everything that comes around and when this all blows over, I have to do the hernia operation thing. Well, at least I'm healthy enough to handle the stuff. Better than Pulling a Howard Hughs and my life is full.
Jbee
