Barbara describes calling an ambulance to get tests done in the ER as labs were completely overbooked and inaccessible.

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The doctors closed up their offices, rolled up the sidewalks and they closed up their offices and there was no care for two years. That was despicable. Because the doctors had all moved around, they were all working out of different places it was really, really hard to get a hold of anybody.  

In March of 2020 – in March of 2021, I’m sorry – it had been a year and I couldn’t get any doctors and I also could not get any bloodwork done because the labs were just overrun with appointments and so I had to go to the hospital to get checked out. And I called an ambulance, went to emergency and what they found out was that my calcium was so high, that it was dangerously high and that my potassium was so low that I – it was negligible. So I kind of had that out with my doctors, right? I couldn’t get a hold of my pulmonary guy, although he did call me every six months. In between it was extremely hard to get a hold of him. My cardiologist was working at a different place, with a different number and I couldn’t get a hold of them.  So yeah, I screamed when I got into the hospital and I told them, you know this was not – this is not good. This is not the way that things should be. We should have access to better healthcare than having to end up in the emergency. And they kept me for a week and I was like, I don’t need to be here you know. I’m wasting – I don’t want to be exposed to all these people. I didn’t want to be out in COVID but I had no choice.

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