Today has been an interesting day. Since I didn’t go to rehab all week, I decided I need to to go this morning even though I didn’t get any sleep. I arrived at the gym at 8:00 am and there were only two patients. I guess the rain and COVID-19 is keeping everyone at home. The nurses suggested we wear disposable gloves while we exercise and they also had masks available. It was pretty weird walking on the treadmill for 30 minutes wearing purple surgical gloves. Since my palms sweat, it was also pretty gross when I took the gloves off afterwards.
Since I thought I had a meeting at 10:00 am, I drove straight to work after rehab and didn’t check my work phone. I was going to talk to my boss about working from home more since this COVID-19 pandemic is becoming more serious. When I walked into our area (there are 5000+ at our work-site), about four coworkers told me to go home right away. Turns out an employee came down on Tuesday from our Seattle office and their partner was infected with COVID-19. Yikes! Since everyone knows my medical journey, they all told me to go home. Once of them actually texted me this morning but I didn’t see the message. I spoke to my boss and he also told me to go home. He is telling our entire department to work from home next week to see if that was an isolated case, or if our building turns into an infection hot spot. I had to quickly do a few things then left for home after 45 minutes. At the same time, our CEO sent out an email message telling sick people to stay home, but the overall tone of the message seems to downplay the seriousness of the pandemic. Not helpful.
Since I was at home, I watched President Trump’s press conference at the Rose Garden this afternoon. There were a few useful facts but most of it was useless and cringy. I swear he sounds retarded when he speaks. I was also disappointed in Mike Pence; he spent most of his time kissing Trump’s ass instead of demonstrating leadership. The Q&A was also interesting. The foreign reporters seem to ask balanced questions but some American journalists were definitely out to get Trump with their passive-aggressive questions. Even at this time, everything is about politics.
We’re all going to die.
Life with chronic diseases 