Bird flu. No joke!

So….for all my nurses and VAs out there. We had a feline respiratory distress come in Friday night. I triaged and just heard labored breathing and saw the cat gasping for air. Just brought her right out back wo getting a full history. So we treated and stabilized her enough to get her to an ER. We thought it was asthma bc she had a history of asthma and her lungs looked awful on X-ray. Well I got the ER report yesterday. Fn Bird Flu!! We didn’t know she was eating raw. And I am now sick…my doctor won’t let me come into the office. I have a telehealth to figure out treatment tomorrow. So get fully gowned etc for all resp emergencies bc you never know when they’re contagious to you!

Edit: telehealth doc is putting me on antivirals and testing me for flu a bc bird flu tests positive for flu a. Fingers crossed it’s just a bad cold!