2021-10-22 周五
今晚感觉环境很冷，晚上下班之后和妹妹视频，商量着明天去辽师学习的事，在床下坐着感觉好冷啊，于是就上床躺着，盖上被子，可是还是好冷，也没有想到自己可能发烧了，身边也没有体温计，就佝偻着身体睡觉了。
2021-10-23 周六
早上醒了感觉身体好累啊，腰酸背痛，甚至胳膊也痛，约好了要去辽师的，还是起床洗漱准备出发了。由于昨天太冷了，今天就多穿点。
但是，似乎用处不大啊，在辽师食堂待着还是感觉冷，到下午 3 点，实在是没有精神，就回学校去睡觉了，今天我已经隐约感觉自己发烧了，在辽师附近的药店买了一根体温计，回寝室测了一下体温， 38 度，不行了，我得休息了，吃了一粒布洛芬和感康。（后来查知乎，据说布洛芬不要和其他复方感冒药一起吃😅）
晚上 10 点，退烧了，我又恢复健康状态了，按以往的经验，吃了退烧药退烧了，就代表感冒好了，我以为我好了。安心睡去，明天去实验室玩电脑去。
2021-10-24 周日
上午 8 点，测一下体温，我去，竟然还有点热，吃一粒感康吧。
中午了，嗯…,身体不适，还是想在实验室玩耍，相信我挺一挺感冒就过去了。
下午 4 点，不行了，得回去躺着了。回寝室测了一下体温，又 38 度多，又吃了一粒布洛芬，开始躺。几个小时后，身体恢复了一些，这次我应该好了吧。玩手机准备睡了。
夜里出了一身汗，超级多的汗，被窝都潮死了，把被子换一面，接着睡了。
2021-10-25 周一
今天是工作日了，但是鉴于我病魔缠身，上午就不去了。早上起来（准确的说是中午起来）精神状态很好，我以为我病好了，开开心心去上学。今天带着体温计去，及时监测我的身体状态。
下午 3 点，emm… ，又是熟悉的感觉，用我自己的手摸我自己的身体，感受得到它在发热。我很奇怪，长这么大还是第一次遇到反复发烧的情况，而且不咳嗽，没有鼻涕，感冒最明显的两个症状都没有，就只有发烧，多少有点慌啊。
今天继续退烧药保命。和昨天一样，夜里又是一身汗。
2021-10-26 周二
反复发烧第四天了，和姐姐妹妹商量了一下，决定不再继续挺了，怕烧坏了身体，于是决定花钱消灾了。
因为不知道发热门诊什么流程，就提前知乎了一下。
同时也在群里问了一下小伙伴
晚上请了第二天出校门的假，决定一早就去医院，希望可以当天回来。
2021-10-27 周三
早上 7 点就起床，测了一下体温正常，带上充电宝出发。路过食堂想去吃个早饭，妹妹说做核酸检测前 1 个小时不能吃饭。好吧，去超市买了袋奶，喝掉了，买个面包，放书包里带走。
出门坐 28 路公交到大医二院，下车要过个天桥，在天桥上能很明显的看到发热门诊四个字，直接去那个楼就行了。
到了楼下，两个穿着防护服的护士坐在门口。首先出示身份证，行程卡，然后填了一个表格，表格上就问，近 14 天有没有去过哪哪哪，21天内有没有怎么怎么样的，对于我这种大半年都在大连的人，直接全选否，最后一项问有没有发热，那我只能选是了。
填完表格让我去 3 楼 1 诊区 1 诊室。是这样的，大医二院的发热门诊分两个诊区，其中 1 诊区用来接待我这种的，没出过大连的低风险人群，2 诊区用来接待那种 21 天内有中高风险地区旅居史的。
进了诊室里，所有护士全部穿着防护服，首先进行一套走流程式的声明：“我们这里是做新冠肺炎排查的，总共要进行 4项检查，包括血常规，核酸检测，新冠抗体检查和肺部 CT 检查，总共大约需要 750 ，检查所需要的时间大约是 4 到 6 个小时，期间不能离开这里，只能在这里等所有结果都出来，你想要继续吗？” ， 这一通下来说的我也是很懵逼，难道我可以选择跳过吗？，于是我问了一句 ”发烧想要去医院就必须走这个流程呗“，她说”是的，如果想继续的话，去门口先挂个号。“
在 3 楼刚上楼的地方是挂号处，窗户都被挡的很严实，看不见里面的人，只能通过扬声器和麦克风相互交流，身份证的感应器在窗口外，需要病人自己放上去，出示付款码，交钱，挂号完毕。再次回到诊室。
护士问我是学生吗？我说是的。打疫苗了吗？我说打了，还问了一些行程问题，挨个答就行了，问我用药过不过敏，我说不过敏。然后让我填写表格，其中一个是所有病人都填写的，另一个是学生的专属表格，在这个表格里都是学生。不知道为什么学生要单独填表，感觉这里有猫腻。
接下就进行检查，咽拭子核酸检测，抽血都是在 3 楼，CT 需要到 1 楼做，这三项进行完毕之后就开始回 3 楼刷手机等待结果了。出结果的速度不一样，大概是这样的。
血常规显示我生病了
抗体检测双阴性我也不知道啥意思，疫苗打了也是白打？
核酸检测出结果了也不能走，还要等 CT 的结果
这一上午来发热门诊的人总共 10 多个吧，有那种胃肠感冒引起发烧的，还有那种不发烧的，拉肚子 或者 咳嗽，去了门诊，然后门诊大夫让他们来发热门诊排查，这个流程真的太坑了，但凡有个啥病，都得多花 750 。等结果的过程中是不可以吃东西喝水的，准确的说是不允许在 3 楼这个环境里摘下口罩，想要吃饭和喝水可以去 1 楼，然后再回来继续等。我很饿，但还是算了。
大概中午 12 点，我的手机提示又有一项检查出结果了，应该就是 CT 了，我在手机上查看报告 。
吓得我赶紧去查查双肺小结节是什么
刚看完报告，护士从诊室里出来念我的名字，给了我一张报告单，说我可以走了，让我把所有报告打印出来。楼下就有打印的地方，我打印了所有报告，至此发热门诊的一趟旅程就结束了。需要等 3 个多小时，比想象的快了许多。
我饿了，站在街上啃着面包，准备下午去门诊看病了。现在我感觉我又开始发热了，有个中年路人找我帮忙，说什么手机没电了，要打车什么的，我也没听清，直接就摇头了。这位大哥，医院附近的都是病人，你想让病人去做好人好事，有点太难了吧。
面包吃了一半，因为实在吃不下，就去门诊了。进了医院我去问导诊我该挂哪一科，因为我除了发热也没什么身体不适，不咳嗽，没鼻涕。导诊告诉我去呼吸科，让医生看报告。
医生听了我的描述，看了我的报告，给我的基本结论就是感冒，病毒感染，没控制住。我说我吃感康，布洛芬啥的，她说”那没用，布洛芬吃完出一身汗，烧退了，过一会还热。“一边看着我的报告一边念叨着，吃点”阿比多尔…“
这药一盒 46，能吃 2 天，贼贵
给我开了一周的药，我问她如果不退烧我再来医院是不是还得走发热门诊的流程，她言语中很自信的表示应该能退烧，再不退烧就得全身检查了。
开了 4 种感冒药，总共花了 300 多。我好心疼我的钱啊。
发烧还在继续，头疼，腰酸背痛，我累了，回到寝室吃了药就躺下休息了。
下午 5 点，烧还是不退，并且达到了历史新高 38.9，我在犹豫要不要吃退烧药，我已经连续吃好几天的退烧药了，纠结了一会决定还是再挺一挺。
今天因为去医院，回来就睡觉，还没怎么喝水，于是我疯狂喝水，排尿。感觉有点效果，体温没有继续升高，维持在了 38.6 附近。这让我更有信心坚持下去了。
过了一会儿，终于接到了妹妹的第一个慰问电话，我太需要聊天了，要不然太难受了。晚上聊到了 9 点半，我喝第二顿药准备睡了。
躺下之前测了体温，依旧是 38 度多，依然头疼，依然腰疼。
2021-10-28 周四
夜里 2 点，我还是睡不着，起来上个厕所，测个体温，好像 37 开头了，瞬间感觉自己不发烧了，很开心，感觉自己终于挺过来了，但头依然疼，索性不睡了，打开 b 站，看起了百变马丁.
夜里 3 点半，我睡着了。
康复!!!🎉🎉🎉
总结
- 退烧药不治病
- 治感冒也要对症下药，疫情期间感冒建议多尝试不同类型的药物，毕竟去医院太贵了。
- 去医院之前建议先打草稿，不然每次都会觉得自己没描述好。就像是和别人吵架之后总会觉得自己没发挥好一样。
- 不知道怎么评价发热门诊这个流程，太坑钱了。
- 发烧真的特别难受，需要身体和精神上的双重照顾。
2021-10-22 Friday
It felt very cold tonight. After work, I video-called my younger sister and we discussed going to Liaoning Normal University (辽师) to study tomorrow. Sitting beside the bed, I felt so cold that I got into bed and covered myself with the quilt, but I was still cold. It never occurred to me that I might have a fever. There was no thermometer at hand either, so I curled up and went to sleep.
2021-10-23 Saturday
When I woke up in the morning, my body felt so tired — sore back, aching waist, even my arms hurt. We had agreed to go to Liaoning Normal University, so I still got up, washed up, and got ready to leave. Since yesterday was so cold, I put on more clothes today.
But it didn’t seem to help much. Staying in the cafeteria at the university, I still felt cold. By 3 p.m., I really had no energy left, so I went back to school to sleep. Today I vaguely felt that I had a fever. I bought a thermometer at a pharmacy near the university and measured my temperature back in the dorm — 38 degrees. That was it; I had to rest. I took a tablet of ibuprofen and a Gan Kang cold medicine. (Later I looked it up on Zhihu; it’s said that ibuprofen shouldn’t be taken together with other compound cold medicines 😅)
At 10 p.m., the fever broke and I was back to my healthy state. Based on my past experience, once the fever goes down after taking antipyretics, the cold is over, and I thought I was fine. I fell asleep with peace of mind, planning to go to the lab to play with the computer tomorrow.
2021-10-24 Sunday
At 8 a.m., I measured my temperature. Jeez, I still had a bit of a fever. Let me take a Gan Kang tablet.
It was noon. Hmm…, I felt unwell, but I still wanted to play at the lab. I believed that if I just toughed it out, the cold would pass.
At 4 p.m., no more. I had to go back and lie down. Back in the dorm, I measured my temperature — over 38 degrees again. I took another ibuprofen and lay down. A few hours later, my body recovered a bit. I should be fine this time, right? I played on my phone and got ready for bed.
In the middle of the night, I broke out in a sweat — an enormous amount of sweat. The bedding got soaking wet. I flipped the quilt over to the other side and went back to sleep.
2021-10-25 Monday
Today is a workday, but since I was still plagued by illness, I skipped the morning. I got up (well, technically at noon) in good spirits and thought I was cured, so I happily went to school. I brought the thermometer with me this time to monitor my condition in time.
At 3 p.m., emm…, the familiar feeling again. Touching my own body with my own hands, I could feel it was hot. I found it strange — in all my years, this was the first time I’d had a recurring fever, and I wasn’t coughing, had no runny nose. Neither of the two most obvious cold symptoms was present; it was just a fever. I was a bit panicked.
Today I continued relying on antipyretics to survive. Just like yesterday, I sweated a lot again at night.
2021-10-26 Tuesday
It was the fourth day of the recurring fever. After discussing it with my older and younger sisters, I decided not to tough it out anymore — I was afraid of burning out my body — so I decided to spend money to ward off the disaster.
Since I didn’t know the procedure at the fever clinic, I looked it up on Zhihu in advance.
What’s it like to have a fever and cough during the pandemic and go to the fever clinic?
Records of the fever clinic examination procedure
At the same time, I also asked my friends in the group chat.
In the evening, I asked for leave to leave campus the next day, decided to go to the hospital first thing in the morning, and hoped to come back the same day.
2021-10-27 Wednesday
I got up at 7 a.m. and measured my temperature — it was normal. I grabbed my power bank and set off. Passing the cafeteria, I wanted to eat breakfast, but my sister said you can’t eat within 1 hour before the nucleic acid test. Fine — I went to the supermarket, bought a carton of milk and drank it, and bought a loaf of bread to put in my backpack.
I took bus No. 28 to the Second Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University. After getting off, I had to cross a footbridge, from which the four characters “fever clinic” (发热门诊) were clearly visible. Just head straight to that building.
When I got to the bottom of the building, two nurses in protective suits were sitting at the entrance. First, I showed my ID card and itinerary card, then filled out a form. The form asked whether I had been to any of various places in the past 14 days, and whether anything-or-other had happened in the past 21 days. For someone like me who has spent most of the past year in Dalian, I just selected “No” for all of them. The last item asked whether I had a fever, so I could only select “Yes”.
After filling in the form, I was told to go to Examination Area 1, Examination Room 1 on the 3rd floor. You see, the fever clinic of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University is divided into two areas: Area 1 receives people like me — low-risk people who haven’t left Dalian — and Area 2 receives those who have a travel history to medium- or high-risk regions in the past 21 days.
Inside the examination room, all the nurses were wearing protective suits. First came a scripted declaration: “This is a COVID-19 screening. A total of 4 tests will be done: a blood routine test, a nucleic acid test, a COVID antibody test, and a chest CT scan. The total cost is about 750 yuan, and the tests take about 4 to 6 hours. During this time you cannot leave here; you can only wait here until all the results come out. Do you want to continue?” Hearing all of this, I was quite dumbfounded — was I even allowed to choose to skip it? So I asked, “If I have a fever and want to go to the hospital, I have to go through this process, right?” She said, “Yes. If you want to continue, go to the entrance and register first.”
Right at the top of the stairs on the 3rd floor is the registration desk. The windows were blocked very tightly, so you couldn’t see the people inside and could only communicate through a speaker and a microphone. The ID card sensor was outside the window; patients had to place their card on it themselves, show the payment code, pay, and the registration was done. Then I returned to the examination room.
The nurse asked if I was a student. I said yes. Had I been vaccinated? I said yes. She also asked some travel questions — I just answered them one by one. She asked if I had any drug allergies, and I said no. Then she had me fill in forms: one that all patients fill out, and another exclusive to students — in which everyone was a student. I don’t know why students have to fill in a separate form; it felt like something fishy was going on.
Next came the examinations: the throat-swab nucleic acid test and the blood draw were both on the 3rd floor, while the CT had to be done on the 1st floor. After finishing all three, I went back to the 3rd floor and scrolled through my phone waiting for the results. The results came back at different speeds, roughly like this:
The blood test showed that I was sick
Both antibody tests came back negative — I have no idea what that means. So the vaccine was all for nothing?
Even after the nucleic acid test result came out, I couldn’t leave; I still had to wait for the CT result
A dozen or so people visited the fever clinic that morning — some with fevers caused by gastroenteritis, and others without fevers but with diarrhea or coughing; they went to the outpatient clinic and the doctors there sent them to the fever clinic for screening. This process is really a scam: whatever illness you have, you end up paying an extra 750. While waiting for the results, you’re not allowed to eat or drink — to be precise, you’re not allowed to take off your mask in the 3rd-floor environment. If you want to eat or drink, you can go to the 1st floor and then come back to keep waiting. I was very hungry, but I decided to skip it.
Around noon at 12, my phone notified me that another test result was ready — it should be the CT. I checked the report on my phone.
Scared, I quickly searched for what small nodules in both lungs are
Just after I finished reading the report, a nurse came out of the examination room, called my name, handed me a report sheet, and said I could leave — and asked me to print out all the reports. There was a printing place downstairs, so I printed all the reports. And with that, my trip to the fever clinic came to an end. It took a bit over 3 hours, much faster than I had imagined.
I was hungry, so I stood on the street gnawing at my bread, getting ready to see a doctor at the outpatient clinic in the afternoon. Now I felt the fever starting again. A middle-aged passerby asked me for help, saying something about his phone being dead and needing a taxi or something — I didn’t quite catch it and just shook my head. Dude, the people near a hospital are all patients. Asking a patient to do good deeds is a bit too much, don’t you think?
I ate only half of the bread, because I really couldn’t eat any more, and then went to the outpatient clinic. Inside the hospital, I asked the receptionist which department I should register for, since apart from the fever I had no other discomfort — no coughing, no runny nose. She told me to go to the respiratory department and let the doctor see the reports.
After listening to my description and looking at my reports, the doctor’s basic conclusion was a cold — a viral infection that hadn’t been kept under control. I said I’d been taking Gan Kang and ibuprofen and such, and she said, “That’s useless. After taking ibuprofen you sweat a lot and the fever goes down, but it comes back after a while.” While looking at my reports, she muttered, “Take some Arbidol…”
This medicine costs 46 yuan per box and lasts 2 days — really expensive
She prescribed a week’s worth of medicine. I asked her whether I’d have to go through the fever clinic process again if I came back without the fever going away. She said with great confidence that the fever should go away; if it still didn’t, I’d need a full-body examination.
Four kinds of cold medicine were prescribed, costing over 300 yuan in total. My heart ached for my money.
The fever continued: headache, sore back, aching waist. I was tired. Back in the dorm, I took the medicine and lay down to rest.
At 5 p.m., the fever still wouldn’t go down and reached a new all-time high of 38.9. I hesitated about whether to take an antipyretic — I’d been taking antipyretics for several days straight. After agonizing for a while, I decided to tough it out a bit longer.
Today, because I went to the hospital and slept right after coming back, I hadn’t drunk much water. So I drank water like crazy and peed a lot. It seemed to have some effect: my temperature stopped rising and stayed around 38.6. This gave me more confidence to keep going.
A little while later, I finally received the first caring phone call from my younger sister. I really needed someone to talk to; otherwise it would be too hard to bear. We chatted until 9:30 p.m., and I took my second dose of medicine and got ready to sleep.
Before lying down, I measured my temperature — still over 38 degrees, still headache, still back pain.
2021-10-28 Thursday
At 2 a.m., I still couldn’t sleep. I got up to use the bathroom and measured my temperature — it seemed to start with 37. Instantly I felt like I had no fever. I was so happy, feeling that I had finally made it through. But my head still hurt, so I simply gave up on sleep, opened Bilibili, and watched Martin Morning.
At 3:30 a.m., I fell asleep.
Recovered!!!🎉🎉🎉
Summary
- Antipyretics don’t cure the disease
- Treating a cold also needs the right medicine for the symptoms. During the pandemic, it’s advisable to try different types of cold medicines, after all, going to the hospital is too expensive.
- Before going to the hospital, draft what you want to say; otherwise you’ll always feel you didn’t describe things well enough — just like always feeling you didn’t argue well enough after quarreling with someone.
- I don’t know how to evaluate the fever clinic process — it’s too much of a money pit.
- Having a fever is really miserable; you need care for both your body and your mind.
