Physician Assistant Jennifer Perry of Ohio shares the horrifying moment she learned her husband wasn't allowed in the delivery room due to COVID-19.
started to erupt across the US. As a health care professional, Perry was concerned about being able to treat incoming COVID-19 patients with an increasingly low amount of personal protective equipment -- gloves, masks, and other protective gear health care workers use -- and few testing kits. As a woman nine months into her pregnancy, Perry was worried about catching the dreaded virus herself.
With a near 2-year-old son, Maximus, at home and at nine months pregnant, Perry felt that that whole thing was"anxiety-provoking." Suddenly, Perry and her family were starting to show signs of COVID-19. On March 18, the signs started off as mild. But days later, by March 21,"I felt like I got hit by a bus."
"I already was bummed out that our family wouldn't be able to be there in the waiting room, like with the birth of my son," she says."But then to be told that Jon couldn't be there was just devastating." There were few supplies"because anything in there would be considered contaminated whether we used it or not." And a nurse had to remain with Perry the entire time she was in labor"because if something were to turn south with me or the baby there might not be time for the nurse to reapply all her protective gear quickly enough to attend to our needs." Luckily, the first nurse on duty was a friend of Perry's"but she also wasn’t my husband.
The next morning, on April 1, Perry had her second bit of happy news -- she tested negative for coronavirus.
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