Taking calls from my daughter is getting to me...

[iamwhatiseem]

Thank you for the kind words for those that spoke them.
Appreciate it.
Today was another banner day. A lady that has worked for me for 21 years, hospital called the family. Her brother, who was doing much better, reacted very poorly to being taken off of the ventilator, had to be chemically placed in a temp coma. His lungs are so damaged by Covid, he will not make it. Because they need the ventilators... they can't keep him on it for what would likely be months IF his lungs healed itself. Soo...
And I was sitting in the same room when her sister called her.
Men suck at consoling. We really do.

 

[Blues Man]

As I have said, my son is a Repiratory care Specialist at a major childrens hospital, and my daughter is a respiratory therapist at a major metro hospital.
She calls after almost every day she works. She gets upset, she is afraid for herself also obviously.
Of the five ICU departments they have, 3 are now all CV-19 patients. Two of their floors are now CV-19 patients. All have advanced cases because they do not accept patients unless their condition is advanced.
People in their 20s and 30s are the worse. It seems that if you are of that age, and you get advanced symptoms, you actually have less of a chance of survival than someone older with advanced symptoms.
She cries daily now, they have to reuse masks over and over, the what ifs when they have to change out of their clothes into their street clothes to go home...what if they didn't get totally clean, what if.... they pass it to their spouse or child...what if....
When a patient is dying, they can only choose one family member to say their goodbyes to. And they are in the room when they do that.



Fuck.

Stop answering your phone

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Stop answering your phone

Uh...yeah... no

 

[Blues Man]

Stop answering your phone

Uh...yeah... no

Then don't whine about it

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Stop answering your phone

Uh...yeah... no

Then don't whine about it

uh-huh, big bad ass behind a keyboard. That or a snot nosed troll.
Either way.... dismissed.

 

[Blues Man]

Stop answering your phone

Uh...yeah... no

Then don't whine about it

uh-huh, big bad ass behind a keyboard. That or a snot nosed troll.
Either way.... dismissed.

AWWWW poor baby wants a pat on the head and some milk and cookies

 

[EvilCat Breath]

My step grandson works for a nearby hospital. The next door neighbor is a nurse at the hospital down the street. Yesterday my doctor has a doctor friend at the hospital in Irvine who is astounded at the hype. They all say the same thing. The hospitals have started scheduling elecve surgeries just to have something to do. The parking lots are filled with hospital tents. All empty. The emergency rooms have a steady stream of people who aren't sick but think they might be sick. All hospital workers are told to get ready for the surge. Every day. Get ready for the surge. Still no surge.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

My step grandson works for a nearby hospital. The next door neighbor is a nurse at the hospital down the street. Yesterday my doctor has a doctor friend at the hospital in Irvine who is astounded at the hype. They all say the same thing. The hospitals have started scheduling elecve surgeries just to have something to do. The parking lots are filled with hospital tents. All empty. The emergency rooms have a steady stream of people who aren't sick but think they might be sick. All hospital workers are told to get ready for the surge. Every day. Get ready for the surge. Still no surge.

Anecdotal.
You do realize that the virus is in "pockets"?
I live right at 90 miles away from my two kids. There it is WW III.
Here - I believe right now there are only 6 positive cases in two hospitals. It is not a problem here.
It is the same for you. The virus hasn't got there in increased numbers yet. I sincerely hope the warm weather gets here before the virus gets to wherever you are. And you never get it like the hot pockets have it.

 

[Crepitus]

As I have said, my son is a Repiratory care Specialist at a major childrens hospital, and my daughter is a respiratory therapist at a major metro hospital.
She calls after almost every day she works. She gets upset, she is afraid for herself also obviously.
Of the five ICU departments they have, 3 are now all CV-19 patients. Two of their floors are now CV-19 patients. All have advanced cases because they do not accept patients unless their condition is advanced.
People in their 20s and 30s are the worse. It seems that if you are of that age, and you get advanced symptoms, you actually have less of a chance of survival than someone older with advanced symptoms.
She cries daily now, they have to reuse masks over and over, the what ifs when they have to change out of their clothes into their street clothes to go home...what if they didn't get totally clean, what if.... they pass it to their spouse or child...what if....
When a patient is dying, they can only choose one family member to say their goodbyes to. And they are in the room when they do that.



Fuck.

Stop answering your phone

Seriously dude?

I mean damn.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

As I have said, my son is a Repiratory care Specialist at a major childrens hospital, and my daughter is a respiratory therapist at a major metro hospital.
She calls after almost every day she works. She gets upset, she is afraid for herself also obviously.
Of the five ICU departments they have, 3 are now all CV-19 patients. Two of their floors are now CV-19 patients. All have advanced cases because they do not accept patients unless their condition is advanced.
People in their 20s and 30s are the worse. It seems that if you are of that age, and you get advanced symptoms, you actually have less of a chance of survival than someone older with advanced symptoms.
She cries daily now, they have to reuse masks over and over, the what ifs when they have to change out of their clothes into their street clothes to go home...what if they didn't get totally clean, what if.... they pass it to their spouse or child...what if....
When a patient is dying, they can only choose one family member to say their goodbyes to. And they are in the room when they do that.



Fuck.

Send her these links. She’ll be fine.
How to Fight Coronavirus (Without Causing a Global Depression) - America Daily

Using Vitamin C finally

Yeah, she'll be fine and dead. You should be banned for practicing medicine without a license. As medical professionals I would hope they are not as dumb as you.

 

[Crepitus]

Stop answering your phone

Uh...yeah... no

Ignore that asshole.

Crap on a crutch

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Stop answering your phone

Uh...yeah... no

Ignore that asshole.

Crap on a crutch

Oh he is probably a basement teenage kid here to troll.
He means nothing

 

[EvilCat Breath]

My step grandson works for a nearby hospital. The next door neighbor is a nurse at the hospital down the street. Yesterday my doctor has a doctor friend at the hospital in Irvine who is astounded at the hype. They all say the same thing. The hospitals have started scheduling elecve surgeries just to have something to do. The parking lots are filled with hospital tents. All empty. The emergency rooms have a steady stream of people who aren't sick but think they might be sick. All hospital workers are told to get ready for the surge. Every day. Get ready for the surge. Still no surge.

Anecdotal.
You do realize that the virus is in "pockets"?
I live right at 90 miles away from my two kids. There it is WW III.
Here - I believe right now there are only 6 positive cases in two hospitals. It is not a problem here.
It is the same for you. The virus hasn't got there in increased numbers yet. I sincerely hope the warm weather gets here before the virus gets to wherever you are. And you never get it like the hot pockets have it.

It's always somewhere else. Los Angeles is a hot pocket. When I talk to my friends in LA the hot pocket is somewhere else. More people are suffering from the democrat shut down than any virus. Lives are being destroyed. Families are torn apart. That's without a single person they know having the virus. You must suffer they are told, if it saves just one life in Chicago or New York, your losses are worth it.

No.
It's not true. This is what the Democrat war on America looks like.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Student loans should be cancelled for all medical workers

Yeah, cancel the loans for my doctors and nurses that went to school 40 years ago! Oh, wait! They don't have any!

 

[Rambunctious]

Medical workers train for this their entire careers...its not like any of them didn't know what this would be like...yes they are heroes but if they are not up to the job they should pack up their things and go home...because fear is as contagious as the virus itself...

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

As I have said, my son is a Repiratory care Specialist at a major childrens hospital, and my daughter is a respiratory therapist at a major metro hospital.
She calls after almost every day she works. She gets upset, she is afraid for herself also obviously.
Of the five ICU departments they have, 3 are now all CV-19 patients. Two of their floors are now CV-19 patients. All have advanced cases because they do not accept patients unless their condition is advanced.
People in their 20s and 30s are the worse. It seems that if you are of that age, and you get advanced symptoms, you actually have less of a chance of survival than someone older with advanced symptoms.
She cries daily now, they have to reuse masks over and over, the what ifs when they have to change out of their clothes into their street clothes to go home...what if they didn't get totally clean, what if.... they pass it to their spouse or child...what if....
When a patient is dying, they can only choose one family member to say their goodbyes to. And they are in the room when they do that.



Fuck.

Do you suspect that the cdc is putting out inaccurate figures for the death count to date? If the death count is really less than four thousand, that would mean less than one covid 19 death per hospital in the usa. Do you trust the cdc figure?

No, I am saying the CDC numbers are too low. All I can verify is that in this state, in this major city - what the hospitals are dealing with is much worse than what CDC shows.

...and where would that be?

 

[SweetSue92]

She has seen death many-many times, but this is different. These are not sick people. They are you and me...they are fine...then not fine. She is used to making people better, or at least alleviating their suffering. But with CV-19, they just get worse and worse and then die. And for no apparent reason, why does one person get better - and another dies...even though the one that got better might be older with some health issues... but the person who dies was 20 years younger and no apparent health issues they can detect.
I myself am having trouble sleeping, she calls around 8pm. And it leaves my head spinning. In my minds eye she is still that little kid. She is in REAL danger and I can't do anything.

I don't just say this theoretically. Our son, 23, got pneumonia last May, went septic, and was in the ICU at one time on 5 different antibiotics. He was hospitalized for a week. For about a day there it was touch and go, even with his heart.

In the modern era we take for granted that drs and medical personnel can, and very likely WILL, fix anything. But just a short century ago this was far from a given. You felt grateful if all your babies made it to adulthood. I don't say this by means of diminishing the pain of anyone's family suffering a loss. EVERY loss is a family tragedy. But I think people used to be a lot more familiar with it, anyway, if not reconciled to it.

So here we are, getting familiar with it again. It sucks. But this is the course of human history.

 

[Blues Man]

As I have said, my son is a Repiratory care Specialist at a major childrens hospital, and my daughter is a respiratory therapist at a major metro hospital.
She calls after almost every day she works. She gets upset, she is afraid for herself also obviously.
Of the five ICU departments they have, 3 are now all CV-19 patients. Two of their floors are now CV-19 patients. All have advanced cases because they do not accept patients unless their condition is advanced.
People in their 20s and 30s are the worse. It seems that if you are of that age, and you get advanced symptoms, you actually have less of a chance of survival than someone older with advanced symptoms.
She cries daily now, they have to reuse masks over and over, the what ifs when they have to change out of their clothes into their street clothes to go home...what if they didn't get totally clean, what if.... they pass it to their spouse or child...what if....
When a patient is dying, they can only choose one family member to say their goodbyes to. And they are in the room when they do that.



Fuck.

Stop answering your phone

Seriously dude?

I mean damn.

WHat?

The guy says talking to his kid is stressing him out

Easy fix

 

[Blues Man]

Stop answering your phone

Uh...yeah... no

Ignore that asshole.

Crap on a crutch

Oh he is probably a basement teenage kid here to troll.
He means nothing

Older than that I just don't whine like a 5 year old.

OH woe is me I can't take it anymore

man the fuck up

 

[iamwhatiseem]

She has seen death many-many times, but this is different. These are not sick people. They are you and me...they are fine...then not fine. She is used to making people better, or at least alleviating their suffering. But with CV-19, they just get worse and worse and then die. And for no apparent reason, why does one person get better - and another dies...even though the one that got better might be older with some health issues... but the person who dies was 20 years younger and no apparent health issues they can detect.
I myself am having trouble sleeping, she calls around 8pm. And it leaves my head spinning. In my minds eye she is still that little kid. She is in REAL danger and I can't do anything.

I don't just say this theoretically. Our son, 23, got pneumonia last May, went septic, and was in the ICU at one time on 5 different antibiotics. He was hospitalized for a week. For about a day there it was touch and go, even with his heart.

In the modern era we take for granted that drs and medical personnel can, and very likely WILL, fix anything. But just a short century ago this was far from a given. You felt grateful if all your babies made it to adulthood. I don't say this by means of diminishing the pain of anyone's family suffering a loss. EVERY loss is a family tragedy. But I think people used to be a lot more familiar with it, anyway, if not reconciled to it.

So here we are, getting familiar with it again. It sucks. But this is the course of human history.

Well it is good that we have far superior health care and we are not use to not being able to fix whatever ails you.
That is what is particularly hard for her. An RT is not someone you want to have to see, if you are seeing an RT usually you have big problems. And she is used to that. Used to people being very sick and, yes, dying. With the virus however, these are normal people. Some are young, and only a week ago they were 100% healthy - and then now they are not. And die. And die a horrible death - alone. Because no family members can see them. And you have to not only be in the same room as they are, but what they have can kill YOU! That is far-far beyond the normal care.