2 - Stories from a Pandemic: Arrival
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What does the host say about the pandemic’s arrival and the diary project?
Hi, this is Emily and you're listening to The Nocturnous Stories from a Pandemic. I just came off another stretch of shifts in the hospital, and things definitely feel different. Today there was a long line of people winding around the hospital just to get in. So I waited about twenty minutes uh to get into work and when I got to the hospital lobby there is this setup where you have to stand on these little footprints and then somebody behind a glass screen points this like laser gun thing at your forehead and takes your temperature. And if your temperature is normal, then you're allowed to proceed and go to work. I took care of twelve patients today, some of which were COVID rule-out patients, but the majority of which were just ordinary medicine patients.
Later this month I'll be on the COVID service, so I'll be sure to update you then. In case you missed last week's episode, we've decided to interrupt season three of our show to focus on this pandemic. Well over a hundred healthcare workers are keeping audio diaries of their experience during this time. We're featuring selected clips from their audio diaries on the show. And today we continue with audio diaries from Indiana and other parts of the Midwest, California, New York, and Massachusetts. You'll hear the voices of a pulmonologist, an internist, an emergency medicine doctor, a reference tech at a blood center, and a newly matched medical student who is graduating early and being deployed to the hospital as an intern.
If you want to lend your voice to our diary project or send us music that you've made or other sounds from your life in the time of COVID, Visit our website at thenocturnist dot com With that Here is episode two. arrival.
I got a shipment of masks sent to me by my sister and my nine year old niece. And she included Um this note in it. Dear Uncle Gabe, we put twenty six masks in this bag. The one extra is for Sarah, my wife. Hers is the Wonder Woman one. I hope the masks come to good use. It felt good to be helping the hospitals. We're making more, so if you need any more, just let us know. Love C C. If you told me three or four months ago that I would be making every three week trips to a to an infusion center. for my wife's chemotherapy and that during the third of these chemotherapy sessions It would have been dramatically interrupted by the global pandemic, I would have said you're crazy. Um But here we are. Um My wife serves a pediatrician and
Um In January of this year. She was diagnosed with ERPR negative HER2 positive uh breast cancer. So our world was kinda turned sideways. I found myself just struggling with how to best support her. chemotherapy is pretty much a day long process. Um you go to the center and You she has a port now and that port gets hooked up to Um mm, three uh sequential medicines that are infused over Anywhere from five to eight hours depending on Um how things are going. And it was really important to me that I get to go with her and spend that time, that I set aside that time so that she and I could be together away from our kids and away from our jobs and Um Just B This last time. Um was About a week after the coronavirus um
Sent the world. Uh into a tailspin. We knew things would be different and we showed up and The nurse came out from the infusion center and invited Sarah to to come back and see the physician before her infusion and the nurse said, Actually, ma'am, there's no one allowed back in The um infusion center or in the office spaces because of the coronavirus outbreak and А тапой, Сернай, Locked eyes and stared at each other and Um kind of sat there for a few minutes in silence and I told her I'd go home and and take care of s getting some groceries, which was the first time we'd done that since the Stay at home order was Enacted and I walked out. Left Sarah too. Get her infusion by herself. Which sucked. There are
really three main things that literally wake me at three or four in the morning almost nightly. Um the first is my wife, Sarah. I worry about her just staying healthy through all this and
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What does the host say about the pandemic’s arrival and the diary project?
0:00–7:51
2
How did a family’s mask shipment affect a frontline internist’s morale?
7:51–23:44
3
What ethical dilemmas arise when creating ventilator‑allocation guidelines in Indiana?
23:44–28:02
4
How does an emergency‑medicine intern describe the shift from normal ER work to COVID‑only care?
28:02–31:28