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Little voice season 1 episode 112/30/2023 ![]() And I kind of looked at them, like, “That's the only thing I can definitely give you, whenever you need it, you know, just say the word!”Īnd then they came back, and they said and they gave me some vancomycin, which is like the 1 antibiotic-and I've been on every 1 in my life-that I'd never heard of or been on…They said, “Oh, by the way, contagious.” And I went into a taxicab because nobody wanted to come and pick me up because they thought on top of COVID-19, get diarrhea. But that was the point, is that I didn't even know how dangerous what I ended up having was, but everyone in the hospital at the time was, “Stay away from me, you could have COVID-19.” What happened was, they did a CT scan on my stomach, they ran blood, they took an EKG, they finally after all the thousands of dollars in tests they give a stool sample. ![]() So, they tested me for everything, and the woman in the bed next to me was so …and my was negative, so, she should have been more worried about what I did have. So, I not only wasn't going to the bathroom regularly, but this was crazy amount of going to the bathroom and I was pretty much living on the bathroom floor. And I explained that, for me, that was really abnormal because I had a history of chronic pain, and at the time, I was on pain medication-opiates-which are known to constipate you. When I got there, they tested me for everything in the world, and they symptoms, and I said diarrhea, and they kind of dismissed it. They immediately just took me to the emergency room, and I was begging them not to because we were in the middle of in New York City, and…in New York at that time, was like a mass grave. She was only in middle school at the time, but all she knew was I had been complaining my stomach hurt, and so, she just called 911. And she heard…a thud in the bedroom and came running in, I was on the floor and she immediately called 911. So, she was sitting in the living room, I had set up…a temporary desk situation for her, and she was all day on Zoom with a bunch of kids sitting in their homes. I live in New York City, as I said, with my daughter, and we were on lockdown, and she was being homeschooled…that was the mandate. So, I didn't think anything of it…that's not true, I thought this is horrible, this is painful, I have stomach cramps, but I wasn't having any diarrhea. Everyone talked about having GI issues, and I had just recently received my first COVID-19 vaccination, so I thought this is an of the vaccine, or I have COVID-19, and I didn't get my vaccine in time. I had recently had some oral surgery-which was not uncommon for me-I have a long history of a lot of oral maxillofacial surgery, so it didn't even occur to me that this gastrointestinal (GI) was connected to my oral surgery, I immediately thought COVID-19. diff, and I immediately thought this was a COVID-19 symptom. įeldman: It's interesting, because we were in the middle of when I first started having symptoms of C. Pharmacy Times: I wanted to start this conversation with you walking through your experience of first being diagnosed with. ![]() I'm actually finishing up my master's in public health. Jenny Feldman: Hi, my name is Jenny Feldman.
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