Realities of the Virus: The Damage That Doctors Do

I am a few days into being on my new pill. Unfortunately, the results are a mixed bag. I think I will talk about that more in day or two. I want to give myself a few more days to really study how I am reacting to this pill and also process the emotions that are coming along with having some trouble and setbacks. Setbacks are hard and they just take a little bit of time to process.

Today, I want to talk a little bit more about the struggle that many survivors are facing with doctors.

First off, I want to say that health care workers are heroes, especially right now. They are overworked and they are up against something that they don’t fully understand. They deserve our respect. Of course, I honestly believe that the best thing that we could do to respect them is to actually come together to lower the amount of cases that they are fighting.

But, the main point that I want to make is that I am in no way trying to disparage doctors. But, as I used to teach my Sunday school students, nothing makes you a good or bad person other than actually being a good or bad person. No other one characteristic can stand in.

You can be a good person who is a veteran or a bad person who is a veteran. You can be a good person who is a firefighter or a bad person who is a firefighter. You can be a true Christianly person or you can do terrible things but still call yourself a Christian. You can be an angel of a person who got cancer or you could be a total asshole who just happened to get cancer.

You get the point. Good doctors are out there. But, so are bad doctors. And the damage that those doctors are doing right now is deep and lasting.

I’ve had my own fair share of issues with doctors both regarding getting covid and before I got covid.

It took several doctors and over a year before I was properly diagnosed with my functional neurological disorder. I talked about my disorder more in a previous post. On the road to my diagnosis, I encountered one doctor who, I am pretty sure, thought I was crazy or acting out for attention. She spent very little time with me, communicated nothing to me, and put me on a fairly dangerous pill that I didn’t really need to be on. I, thank God, made the decision on my own not to take the pill.

I also ran into a whole bunch of bad doctors when I was dealing with my blood clot and being a carrier for a blood disorder. That is a whole tale in itself.

When it came to being diagnosed with covid, the first doctor I talked to almost didn’t put in an order for a covid test because she didn’t think I really had it. I got tested only as a precaution. Thank God I did. It stopped me from going to a courthouse where I could have exposed so many people, including my colleagues.

When I found out that I had covid, the next doctor I talked to you was completely flippant about the disease, clearly assumed that I was going to have a very mild case, and offered me absolutely no help or advice.

When I stayed acutely sick for nearly two months, I talked to my primary care physician and she also didn’t really offer me any help or advice. She also declined to prescribe me drugs that she had prescribed to older people like albuterol and steriods, which may have helped me recover quicker. My guess is that since I’m young and didn’t really have any pre-existing conditions, she just assumed I would be fine without them.

I also talked in a previous post about how when I first started to develop long-term complications from covid, I went to the ER. I knew that I was experiencing a pain that was like a blood clot and I let them convince me that I didn’t have a blood clot and ended up having to go right back to the ER about a week later.

Also, after 7 months of long-covid, I still don’t have answers for my constant chest pain. The first doctor I spoke to about it tried to convince me that it was just heartburn.

Unfortunately, due to the politicisation and novel nature of covid, there are so many doctors out there who refuse to believe that people have covid or that they have long-covid.

They are refusing to give people tests and they are telling very sick people who know that something is wrong with their body that it’s just their imagination.

In so many ways, covid hasn’t really caused problems so much as it has revealed problems that were already in existence. So many people have already had to deal with doctors denying their pain.

But, the level of denial that so many people are dealing with right now is so sad and so horrifying. You don’t just have to take my word for it, though. I am routinely updating my gallery with words from other real survivors.

If you are someone who’s dealing with this issue right now, I just want to say that my heart goes out to you. I am also gonna give you the same advice that I gave in a previous post: trust yourself and your body when you feel that something is wrong. Don’t let a doctor gaslight you into not taking action or pursuing answers. You have to fight for your life.

And to anyone out there who doubts that a person is sick or how sick a person is, just know that your denial could have some serious and terrible consequences.

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