- Hey guys, welcome back to the DrCliffAuD VLOG.
This is blog number 53.
And today I'm gonna be talking about COVID,
that's right, I have COVID,
Ashley has COVID.
She got it a couple of days before me.
I think that's probably how I contracted it is from her,
but lemme kind of rewind
and give you guys an idea of how this week has gone
because there's a lot of crazy stuff happening this week.
So, earlier in the week, Ashley started feeling not right.
She has never had COVID before,
so she didn't really know if it was COVID that she had
but one particular day she's like, yeah,
I'm just not feeling as well as I normally do.
So, she started wearing like two masks at one time
anytime that she was around me or anybody else.
And she didn't go into the office.
And I think about a day or day and a half later,
she ended up going and getting tested
and it came out positive.
And we found that out midday, Tuesday.
Now I had not been showing any symptoms up until that point
but when we found out that she had COVID
on Tuesday afternoon,
basically what happened is we canceled
the rest of my appointments for the rest of the entire week.
And so, basically since Tuesday afternoon,
I have not gone into the office.
And you might be thinking to yourself,
well, aren't you guys
opening up your new clinic location next week,
the 11th of January?
And you would be correct by that,
but I have not taken any part in any of the move.
Ashley's not taking any part of the move.
And basically we have three staff members
who are moving everything.
So, Chris, Christine and Bryce,
they are basically having to move everything.
And they were seeing patients up in there.
Bryce was seeing patients up until midday on Thursday
at which point they started packing up the place
or finished packing up the place
and loaded everything into a moving truck
and drove that down to the new location in North Phoenix
and started, I guess setting everything up.
And they were there late on Thursday night.
They came in on Friday, spent all day, Friday there
the place was an absolute mess.
I'm gonna show you guys some photos
of what it looked like at the end of the day on Friday.
And fortunately they went back in today
and continued to clean up and set up the office.
So, at least it's presented will on Monday morning.
Now I won't be seeing any patients
throughout the entire week of the 11th,
because now that I've had a positive COVID test,
so I went in on Friday morning to get my nose swab
which was not the most pleasant experience in the world.
Not that it wasn't pleasant when I was getting it done
it just kinda tickled a little bit
but it actually irritated my sinus cavity
or something like that on my left side.
So bad to where, like I had this really bad postnasal drip
the rest of the day at which made my throat really sore.
My throat still really sore right now, but just a mess.
But you know, to rewind again,
we think Ashley got it because she had been spending
a lot of time working with the contractors
to try to get this space finished.
And so there're different people coming in,
some people feel like they don't need to be wearing masks
and Ashley would always wear a mask,
but because she was interacting with them so much,
she wasn't really coming into our clinic
to be around our patients.
And good thing because she ended up,
we think getting COVID from that particular interaction
as you've been paying attention to the VLOG
if you've been paying attention to the VLOG,
that we did not go home to see family on Thanksgiving
or Christmas or new year's or anything like that.
We just stayed hunkered down inside the whole time.
And then we ended up getting COVID anyway, so go figure.
And it was just happened to be occurring
at the exact worst time possible for us to get COVID
because we're literally moving into the new office
this week and over the weekend.
And we haven't been able to help.
We would have been entirely moved
probably within a day and a half,
but we went from having six individuals
to help move down to three
because our other staff member,
we didn't want to get her sick,
by potentially having some kind of interaction.
And anyway, so we just want it to be
really precautious with everything,
but the clinic is coming along nicely.
So, I've been kind of showing some of those photos
here to you right now,
and it's coming along and hopefully,
I probably won't get
any good solid video footage like a tour
over the course of this week, but hopefully next week.
And I'll be able to give you an actual tour
where things are almost completely finished.
We still have to do some finishing touches.
There still has to be frosting put on the glass
to make things more private in there.
And then stitch some different things
like decor and all of that and acoustic tiling
that we know that we're gonna wanna do
but we're gonna live in the space a little bit
just to kinda see how it goes.
But it's just a really crummy thing to get COVID
when this should be one of the most exciting times right now
of getting moved into the new clinic.
And primarily, I just feel bad
that we're having staff do this
and them coming in on their weekends voluntarily
so they can have things ready to go on Monday.
And then I won't even be there on Monday.
Bryce will be seeing patients on Monday,
but just kind of a a weird situation,
bad timing for this all to happen.
That being said, though, I'm very fortunate
that I feel as good as I do
because early on I noticed I started
with a very light cough and then it kinda transitioned
into getting the chills where it kinda feels
like your skin's crawling
and I would wake up,
I think Tuesday night, Thursday night, Friday night,
I woke up with like in the cold sweats,
to the point where, I literally would have a towel
that I would sleep next to.
'Cause I knew I was gonna wake up
just like profusely sweating
and being freezing at the same time
and taking a towel like drying myself off
so I can go back to bed like crazy.
I mean, having experienced that in a long time
but it's still not as bad is the flu.
I mean, the flu is way worse for me, anyway.
It seems like a really really bad cold
only without all the congestion from it.
I still can't taste anything,
which is the thing that's really starting to bother me now
is that eating anything like you have in your mind
like what it should taste like, but you just can't taste it,
but it's not like you can't smell.
I mean, I can't really distinctly smell things.
Like if I took an orange peel and put it up to my nose
'cause I've been eating a lot of oranges,
I can smell the orange peel,
but it doesn't smell quite as distinct as it normally would.
And then everything else just has a bland flavor
but it's a very weird,
it's a different kind of not being able to taste.
Then the type of not being able to taste
that you have when your nose is completely clogged
with snot when you have a cold,
it's like two completely different things,
very very odd.
But hopefully, I think,
at this point I'm on the mend, Ashley's on the mend.
Ashley's feeling better than I am right now.
She's a couple of days ahead of me in terms of recovery.
So, that's a good thing.
And I think that her time ends in quarantine,
I think on Wednesday.
But then if she's still around me,
I'm not quite sure if that means
that we have to come out of quarantine at the same time
which would be this coming this next Friday.
So, we'll see.
But I should be able to start seeing patients
on the 18th of January.
So, today they were actually calling my patients,
and if you're one of my patients watching this right now,
you'll notice that you're not gonna be able to see me
this coming week.
You're gonna be able to see me at some point
later in January or maybe even February,
depending on what type of appointment that was for.
Or you can see Dr. Altice
would be a good good option as well.
So, but yeah, I'll continue to recover.
I should be able to really work hard
in creating some video content.
As you can tell, I'm not quite the lively Cliff
as I normally am right now.
So, I do need to recover a little bit more.
My throat is still really sore
from all that the sore throat from the post-nasal drip,
but hopefully by tomorrow or maybe even Monday,
that'll be better.
'Cause I have a really big hearing aid review
coming out on Tuesday,
which I'm really excited about
really really really cool hearing aid
that I got through review here got
an early sneak peek of so the be ready for that one.
And if you haven't seen any of the other videos
on the progress of the clinic,
now would be a good time to go back and watch
some of those earlier videos to get kinda a understanding
on where things started.
And I wanna say the first video that I posted on the clinic,
was probably about a year ago.
At this point, 'cause this is my what my 53rd VLOG
and 54 weeks worth of recording technically.
So, go back and watch some of the older videos
to see where the clinic came from to where it is right now.
And I think here in the next couple of weeks
you're gonna see a really cool like beginning to end
transition of the space that we had,
kinda see it come full circle.
I can tell you that it's cost us a lot more money.
It's cost us a lot more time,
than we had originally intended.
Fortunately, even with just taking her own savings
me and Ashley, we've been able to kind of curb that pain
by just being able to pay for certain things
out of our own pockets
instead of having it go through alone.
So, we're fortunate in that way
to be able to not have this financially ruin us
which is good news.
But the best part of it is that it's gonna be
a very very nice facility for our patients.
And I'm really excited to kind of welcome our patients back
into our new facility that will be really nice
and really lend itself well to patient care
and having a really enjoyable experience while you're there.
So, hopefully you guys like it.
And you've seen some of the photos at this point.
So, hopefully you've enjoyed the photos
and kinda seeing the message it is right now.
Like I said, we're lifting the curtain on this stuff.
So, you get to see all the messes,
and all this stuff that no one would ever want you to see.
We're letting you see all that stuff right now.
So, but I can tell you this, one of my staff members, Chris,
she actually kinda did just a walkthrough on duo
with Ashley and I,
and they got a whole lot done today
in terms of cleaning it up even from the photos
that I just showed you.
So, it's gonna be really really nice,
hopefully by the time I get to show you the space again.
So, that is all that I have for today.
Ashley's doing good, I'm doing better.
COVID is no fun, but I've had worse.
I definitely can sympathize with the individuals out there
who got COVID way worse than I did.
You know, fortunately respiratorily speaking,
Ashley and I are in really good cardiovascular shape.
So, we've probably fared better because of that.
But I don't take that for granted.
COVID is definitely no fun.
I do have my name on the list to be vaccinated as well.
So, hopefully I get vaccinated at some point fairly soon
even though maybe I'll have some kind of built up immunity
from this, I really don't know.
I'm still gonna be precautious,
still gonna wear a mask all the time in front of patients
even after I do get the vaccine and all of that.
So, I will see how things go,
but I've rambled on enough,
I've taken enough of your guys' time.
I know that there's gonna be some well-wishes
in the comment section.
So, I'm just gonna thank you guys in advance for that.
And as always, I'll see you next week.
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