Hi all, So I live in a small area about an hour from Jersey and the city of NY in NY state. In my small village (Johnson City), we have had now 17 deaths in the 3 mile radius of our home (we are within walking distance of two hospitals and 2 miles from a very large health facility that has specialists, labs and a walk in urgent care clinic across the street from a very large University. We have just under 300 positive cases and they've only just received enough tests to allow certain people to be tested in the county. I started with the Guthrie Clinic in PA (about 2 hours away from me) three months ago. The last visits with all the specialists there have been done via Zoom with each of them as well as the required support group and I have the next month scheduled the same.
I was given labs to do the week we shut down for the virus here and was unable to get these done. My Drs have been understanding of this but I know this has to be done. I've been having no problems in the weight loss aspect and learning to eat differently to keep up with the ins guidelines. The surgery is still looking to be done in Sept, as of the last meeting I had with the surgeon. He is still anxious to get things moving and it can be accurate as surgeries should be able to resume in two weeks in most parts of NY outside of the radius of the city. I wasn't sure of getting the surgery but now my husband and I are for my health problems. Still somewhat nervous and it's not helping during this time at all.
I'm going on the assumption that this thing isn't going away any time soon. NY city is showing a decline in numbers however, after easter weekend, we had an influx of people from New Jersey here and it's remained the same; more Jersey people going through. Our numbers in our little area are actually beginning to show this and are rising with our director of the local health dept warning this is just the beginning for our area now. I am nervous to go to the local center across from the college to get the labs done and worried even more about all the tests that are needing to be done in June (liver biopsy for my fatty liver, ulcer and gerd scans, sleep apnea testing, etc). I'm not certain how safe it is to have these done right now. As many people in my group, I am high-risk at 50 years with copd, diabetes and of course my being 278 lbs (300 lbs when this started).
How is anyone else getting these things done and how can you feel safe to have the surgery done; particularly with the threat of the second wave hitting around the time this surgery is supposed to be happening. Is anyone else confronting these issues and finding a solution or have any thoughts to what can be done in the safest way? Thank you really and sorry for the length of this; wanted to get my concerns across.
I was given labs to do the week we shut down for the virus here and was unable to get these done. My Drs have been understanding of this but I know this has to be done. I've been having no problems in the weight loss aspect and learning to eat differently to keep up with the ins guidelines. The surgery is still looking to be done in Sept, as of the last meeting I had with the surgeon. He is still anxious to get things moving and it can be accurate as surgeries should be able to resume in two weeks in most parts of NY outside of the radius of the city. I wasn't sure of getting the surgery but now my husband and I are for my health problems. Still somewhat nervous and it's not helping during this time at all.
I'm going on the assumption that this thing isn't going away any time soon. NY city is showing a decline in numbers however, after easter weekend, we had an influx of people from New Jersey here and it's remained the same; more Jersey people going through. Our numbers in our little area are actually beginning to show this and are rising with our director of the local health dept warning this is just the beginning for our area now. I am nervous to go to the local center across from the college to get the labs done and worried even more about all the tests that are needing to be done in June (liver biopsy for my fatty liver, ulcer and gerd scans, sleep apnea testing, etc). I'm not certain how safe it is to have these done right now. As many people in my group, I am high-risk at 50 years with copd, diabetes and of course my being 278 lbs (300 lbs when this started).
How is anyone else getting these things done and how can you feel safe to have the surgery done; particularly with the threat of the second wave hitting around the time this surgery is supposed to be happening. Is anyone else confronting these issues and finding a solution or have any thoughts to what can be done in the safest way? Thank you really and sorry for the length of this; wanted to get my concerns across.
