I am a health care worker and I have covid. I kept working.

I am a healthcare worker, and I got myself a little present from Christmas. It felt like just a cold, but test came back Tuesday and I have covid, now its hit me like a truck. I can barely make it off the toilet and I have been running a fever for 3 days. I tried to power on through, thinking it was just a cold or something but kept testing negative for everything else. I felt fine, I was a little congested but it felt like nothing, so I worked five shifts and a half before I truly acknowledged I was sick and I had covid. I felt bad for leaving my team with such a large patient load and I didn't want to fuck anyone’s day up. I told my manager I had a family emergency and couldn't come in on my shift yesterday, I'm sure he was confused I didn't come in the day I got my test results but oh well.<br><br>I am a stupid and selfish person. I let the pressure of my job to make sure everything ran smooth get in the way of my own health and potentially the health of my patients, coworkers, and their families. I got cocky, I got reckles, and I regret my poor decision to make my job and my team a priority over my health and the safety of the people I work for and with. I am ashamed if myself for my selfishness and my poor decision making. Stay home if you test positive, dont be me.<br><br>Edit: Thanks for all the support guys, I promise my job isn't just to interact with patients, and I never interacted with patients i didn't have to wear a mask for. Also, i felt a cold which on a good day working in healthcare i feel anyway, because I have to wear a mask. I am also sure that i caught it from someone because I was feeling fine 24 hours before my symptoms started. I got my test, and it came back a day later, and I was already on shift. I wasn't feeling like I do now, YET. I was already at work when my results came in, and I didn't feel unwell so I thought fuck it, I can get through this shift. I kept pushing through because I didn't want to feel like I was abandoning my team, but before the week was over I was gone, I could barely move out of my house.