2 weeks ago I had a fever, nausea, painful and hugely swollen lymph nodes. Went to urgent care, it was an abscessed ingrown hair. They put me on antibiotics and everything got fine pretty quick.
Yesterday woke up from my daily power nap feeling god-awful and noted a return of the pain in my lymph nodes.
Went to urgent care was sent to the ER. Arrived at the ER around 4:30pm. Wasn't given a room until around 10pm. Left the ER at 3:15am. It was probably just food poisoning or a gut virus.
I was patient and didn't complain. I wasn't constantly bugging the nurses to ask where I was in the list, etc. Most people were not.
A truly eye-opening experience in terms of what it is going to be like for the next 3 months but I think it will be especially bad until we get drive-thru tests setup. That poor experience was nothing compared to what it will be like in 1-2 weeks.