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the actual heart muscle was inflamed

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now I'm just trying to get better .

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Yeah ,

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I was diagnosed with covid back in

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december . I actually got it from my

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wife , who's a paramedic firefighter

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um and you know , the first couple

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days um kind of kind of

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sketchy . I've got two small Children

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and my mother in law lives with us as

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well , who she has some comorbidities ,

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so we were

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concerned .

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Yeah , luckily they tested negative and

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I tested positive , so at that point my

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wife and I decided that the kids were

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gonna stay upstairs um and we were

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gonna stay downstairs away from them

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if they were to come downstairs , they

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had to wear a mask and try and

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keep their distance . Um But it was it

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was scary , you know , not knowing

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what what it would do to them first

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couple days . Um It wasn't too bad ,

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little difficulty breathing , but

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nothing nothing that I was concerned

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with probably about the third or fourth

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days when it got really bad . Mhm .

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Had a hard time breathing , getting up ,

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going to the bathroom , um getting

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up and putting the dogs outside , you

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know , very simple tasks that we take

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for granted every day . Mhm .

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Mhm . I came into work because my wrong

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period was over , My mom period was

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over on the 26th and just

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walking from the truck into work ,

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I was short of breath ,

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you know , Covid

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is a viral infection . And when I went

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to the er I was diagnosed with

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bacterial pneumonia on top of the Covid

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pneumonia , I was still

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short of breath , still

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could barely get up and do

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things around the house . Mhm .

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They found myocarditis which is an

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inflammation of the myocardial ,

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basically the actual heart muscle

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was inflamed and

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So they put me on a limited duty board

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for six months and now I'm just

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trying to get better . I have

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seen my patients

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down in the Covid Treatment unit that

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never would have thought that they

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would have ended up there . Um ,

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I just recently had a 38 year old

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gentleman active duty who was scheduled

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to get his vaccine next week and

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we innovated him . So we put a tube

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down his throat to keep them alive .

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It affects all ages ,

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races , creeds . It does not

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discriminate . Get the vaccine .

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Yeah .

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Mhm .