Doctor Details How She Was Uninvited From Her Best Friend’s Wedding Because Of Her Role In Healthcare
For most people, if not all, the pandemic has distorted everyday habits. Travels, meetings, and big celebrations had to be postponed or canceled. And even now, with the vaccine and all the necessary precautions taken, we still have to think twice before going somewhere. It took a lot of patience and understanding for those who were about to celebrate some bigger and important events such as weddings. And now it seems that more couples are deciding to go through with it and have their big day. However, it seems that the fear of Covid-19 doesn’t go away that easily.
Emily Long, a plastic surgery resident who is currently working in the ICU, decided to share her story on TikTok of how she was uninvited from her friend’s wedding at the last minute because she works with “sick” people.
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An ICU worker shared on TikTok that her friend decided to uninvite her to her wedding because she works with “sick people”
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The woman started her story by stating that she was getting ready for her friend’s wedding that was to take place in Austin, Texas. Since Emily lives in Boston, Massachusetts, she’d already bought a plane ticket to attend the celebration. Traveling details weren’t the only thing Emily had to think about before the big day. She is also a healthcare worker who works in ICU. Having in mind today’s context and the place where she works, the woman took additional precautions before going to see her friend.
It took a lot of preparation for Emily to be able to participate in the celebration
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The TikTok user decided to share this with the bride to calm her down. She told her that she had been tested and was taking all necessary precautions to stay safe. Instead of feeling better about the whole situation, the bride was in shock finding out that her friend takes care of “sick people,” so she decided to uninvite her because she was scared that her friend might infect people at the wedding.
After all, the woman decided not to go to Texas and go to her job instead. She also took time to explain how hard it is for medical workers to take time off
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This put Emily into a complicated situation because it took some time, money, and effort to prepare for this celebration. Right now the healthcare industry is going through some tough times and doctors and nurses cannot take time off that easily. Emily revealed that for her to get a free weekend cost $2800.
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The TikTok that she posted went viral with 5.5M views and soon people became very invested in the story. A lot of them revealed that they also had been uninvited because they or their family members are medical workers. Some people even wondered how doctors and nurses went “from hero to villain” so fast.
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The woman shared a couple of follow-up videos of how the situation escalated further. She decided not to go to Texas and spend the time working. She also provided more details about her working conditions and why it is so complicated to take time off. The woman also commented on the situation in Texas since the number of Covid patients is rising there. A lot of people online addressed that it’s risky to have a wedding in the first place when the situation is getting more serious.
What are your thoughts on this situation? Leave it in the comments down below!
Emily made 3 videos explaining the whole situation, as well as addressing the Covid-19 situation in Texas where the wedding was held
You can watch one of the videos down below!
@dr.emsHave an entire paychecks worth of plane tickets and a packed suitcase to nowhere now… ##tellmeaboutatime ##healthcare ##wedding ##medicine♬ original sound – Emily Long, MD
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Share on FacebookBride should reimburse the OP for any out of pocket expenses. And with a bit of schadenfreude, I wish we had some way of knowing if any of the bridal party or guests caught a coronavirus. I truly don't wish it on them, but I doubt they could avoid it.
Oh I DO wish it on them. Not a very serious case, but enough to feel really terrible for a few days. And I'm with you that the bride should pay.
Load More Replies...Texas. Deary me, haven't we discussed that state to death yet? with a bit of luck the antivaxxers and anti-abortion nutjobs get covid and die. Cheers. PS: that docter: what a lovely young lady.
I think we should probably leave it up to the healthcare professionals to decide if they're safe to be around. The healthcare workers in my family choose to wear masks at gatherings. Nobody is even asking them to.
This is a difficult one. On the one hand, someone working on an ICU ward with Covid patients is coming into contact with Covid every time they go to work. On the other hand, they wear appropriate PPE and are tested regularly (usually every few days). They are probably more likely to catch it themselves in social setting than at work, but because they are being tested, they will know about it sooner and shouldn't pass it on to as many people. We've had issues like this with doctors being asked to move out of shared accomodation and some that have voluntarily moved out to protect their families. Having said all that, in many countries, the UK and US included, it is now so prevalent, that the chances of an ICU doctor/nurse having it will be very similar to the general population. This was not the case when it was less prevalent and when nobody was vaccinated.
As a New Zealander, it would be really easy to tell if our managed isolation and quarantine workers spread covid from the sick people they deal with. We go months at a time with no community cases, including several months after delta first appeared, which shows that whatever procedures our MIQ workers are following, they’re working, and by extension, we can assume that the same is true among people who work with covid patients in the rest of the OECD. Yet people in our respective countries still stigmatise them.
Load More Replies...Not sure if she knows this, but she has grounds to sue the bride over the last minute uninvite. If the other bridesmaids weren't tested, but she was required...then that's not only discrimination, it's unsafe. She can recover the cost of her plane ticket and any other costly inconveniences. Talk to a lawyer, dear. And thank you for taking care of all those people!!
I worked with covid patients last year as well. Had at least one coworker whos family wouldn'´t see her for christmas and other gatherings. It made me so sad.
EVERYONE was asked not to celebrate with anyone outside of their household. I didn't. I don't work in healthcare, but I missed what were expected to be my father's last Thanksgiving and Christmas (which turned out to be the case) to protect him-- as well as the rest of society!
Load More Replies...I think the doc ought to be secure in learning how shallow her “friend” chose to be, leave the bitchy bride in her past and embrace her future. Thank god there are caring beautiful hearted people working in health care. I hope the bride has the wedding and marriage she deserves, and the doctor gets a fabulous vacation somewhere stunning
The bride is a c*nt. But it really should not be so f*****g hard for a doctor to attend a wedding, in the first place. It is a job. An important jobm but still a job. You deserve to have a life, despite being a doctor!!!
Any event is potentially a spreader/superspreader event with Delta variant of Covid-19. Reimburse someone who is UNinvited, but don't complain about it when you get sick b/c you didn't want everyone else to jump through the same hoops. IMHO
I would like to extend an invitation to the state of Texas to secede from the union. I have no patience left for this amount of stupidity and selfishness.
I never made it into health care because of chronic fatigue after encephalitis. But I worked my butt off to maintain good grades, even graduating with straight ''A''s. Got disinvited from my own prom because no guy wanted to be seen with me.
I'm an ICU nurse, and I say the doctor should have refused the invitation. Even after vaccination there's still a risk of transmitting the virus, and nobody who works in a COVID ICU has any business going to big public gatherings.
People who are downvoting this post and the one below, please explain yourselves? Nothing is being said here that is not in the interests of public health! What the hell is more important than that.
Load More Replies...Except that we have proof that covid workers in first world facilities don’t spread it. In New Zealand, our covid response consists of eliminating all covid from our community and quarantining everyone who enters the country so that anyone who’s infectious doesn’t bring it in. If it wasn’t possible for covid workers to prevent themselves from getting infected and spreading covid, we wouldn’t go months at a time with no community cases, but we do. So people in our respective countries need to trust that the infection prevention procedures in these facilities work.
Load More Replies...Bride should reimburse the OP for any out of pocket expenses. And with a bit of schadenfreude, I wish we had some way of knowing if any of the bridal party or guests caught a coronavirus. I truly don't wish it on them, but I doubt they could avoid it.
Oh I DO wish it on them. Not a very serious case, but enough to feel really terrible for a few days. And I'm with you that the bride should pay.
Load More Replies...Texas. Deary me, haven't we discussed that state to death yet? with a bit of luck the antivaxxers and anti-abortion nutjobs get covid and die. Cheers. PS: that docter: what a lovely young lady.
I think we should probably leave it up to the healthcare professionals to decide if they're safe to be around. The healthcare workers in my family choose to wear masks at gatherings. Nobody is even asking them to.
This is a difficult one. On the one hand, someone working on an ICU ward with Covid patients is coming into contact with Covid every time they go to work. On the other hand, they wear appropriate PPE and are tested regularly (usually every few days). They are probably more likely to catch it themselves in social setting than at work, but because they are being tested, they will know about it sooner and shouldn't pass it on to as many people. We've had issues like this with doctors being asked to move out of shared accomodation and some that have voluntarily moved out to protect their families. Having said all that, in many countries, the UK and US included, it is now so prevalent, that the chances of an ICU doctor/nurse having it will be very similar to the general population. This was not the case when it was less prevalent and when nobody was vaccinated.
As a New Zealander, it would be really easy to tell if our managed isolation and quarantine workers spread covid from the sick people they deal with. We go months at a time with no community cases, including several months after delta first appeared, which shows that whatever procedures our MIQ workers are following, they’re working, and by extension, we can assume that the same is true among people who work with covid patients in the rest of the OECD. Yet people in our respective countries still stigmatise them.
Load More Replies...Not sure if she knows this, but she has grounds to sue the bride over the last minute uninvite. If the other bridesmaids weren't tested, but she was required...then that's not only discrimination, it's unsafe. She can recover the cost of her plane ticket and any other costly inconveniences. Talk to a lawyer, dear. And thank you for taking care of all those people!!
I worked with covid patients last year as well. Had at least one coworker whos family wouldn'´t see her for christmas and other gatherings. It made me so sad.
EVERYONE was asked not to celebrate with anyone outside of their household. I didn't. I don't work in healthcare, but I missed what were expected to be my father's last Thanksgiving and Christmas (which turned out to be the case) to protect him-- as well as the rest of society!
Load More Replies...I think the doc ought to be secure in learning how shallow her “friend” chose to be, leave the bitchy bride in her past and embrace her future. Thank god there are caring beautiful hearted people working in health care. I hope the bride has the wedding and marriage she deserves, and the doctor gets a fabulous vacation somewhere stunning
The bride is a c*nt. But it really should not be so f*****g hard for a doctor to attend a wedding, in the first place. It is a job. An important jobm but still a job. You deserve to have a life, despite being a doctor!!!
Any event is potentially a spreader/superspreader event with Delta variant of Covid-19. Reimburse someone who is UNinvited, but don't complain about it when you get sick b/c you didn't want everyone else to jump through the same hoops. IMHO
I would like to extend an invitation to the state of Texas to secede from the union. I have no patience left for this amount of stupidity and selfishness.
I never made it into health care because of chronic fatigue after encephalitis. But I worked my butt off to maintain good grades, even graduating with straight ''A''s. Got disinvited from my own prom because no guy wanted to be seen with me.
I'm an ICU nurse, and I say the doctor should have refused the invitation. Even after vaccination there's still a risk of transmitting the virus, and nobody who works in a COVID ICU has any business going to big public gatherings.
People who are downvoting this post and the one below, please explain yourselves? Nothing is being said here that is not in the interests of public health! What the hell is more important than that.
Load More Replies...Except that we have proof that covid workers in first world facilities don’t spread it. In New Zealand, our covid response consists of eliminating all covid from our community and quarantining everyone who enters the country so that anyone who’s infectious doesn’t bring it in. If it wasn’t possible for covid workers to prevent themselves from getting infected and spreading covid, we wouldn’t go months at a time with no community cases, but we do. So people in our respective countries need to trust that the infection prevention procedures in these facilities work.
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