'I arrived in Italy a couple of days before the coronavirus was found. Back in Iowa, a few days into my self-quarantine, I started feeling sick. This is what happened after that.'
On Feb. 23, my husband and I landed in Rome, Italy, for a long-planned, nine-day trip. On the 25th, the Italian government announced the virus had arrived in northern Italy.
On March 4, we arrived back in Ames, ready for two weeks of self-quarantine. We felt fine, but the last thing we wanted to do was spread any possible contagion to others.But the next morning, I woke up feeling not so fine. Sore throat, cough, sneeze, headache. But I didn’t have a fever. I figured this was the usual jet-lag, airplane-air, post-travel “cold.”
On the morning of Friday, March 13, common sense kicked in, and I decided perhaps I’d better make sure I was really “OK.” Four hours later, I’d been tested, and my sample was en route to the state lab.1. At 10 a.m., I wrote my doctor a note, using his clinic’s online message service. At about 11:30, he phoned. He had already spoken to the clinic’s epidemiologist, who urged him to test me, and contacted the state lab for permission to test.
4. The swab would travel 140 miles to the state lab. We’d know something by Monday. We elbow-bumped, he went back to work, and I went home to rest. It was about 1:30.Before I left, my doctor thanked me for writing rather than calling. Because I’d done so, he laid the groundwork without having a potentially sick person on the premises.
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