I Feel Sooooo Bad For THE QUEEN (Covid related)

[G-Man]

I've been stuck in Florida for a few weeks now due to contracting Covid and then throwing out my back.  It's been rough being away from my family, especially my beautiful, amazing, wife.  We speak almost every night and I can hear the exhaustion in her voice and even sometimes a bit of anger (if you know Cheryl, anger is something she is usually void of).

She's an oncology nurse and when she works at Westchester Medical Center (the premier hospital in the county), she works the overnight and gives chemo therapy and provides to all her oncology patients needs.  Unfortunately, for the last 6 to 7 months she's been routinely floated to the "covid" floor.  The entire 5th floor of the hospital is devoted to just covid patients.

The other night she was floated and I can hear in her voice that she was very upset.  She had to wrap two bodies for the morgue of people who died from covid.  She wasn't angry because they died, she's the most compassionate person I ever met.  She was angry because she was forced to do this awful task on people who were healthy a few months ago, but REFUSE TO GET VACCINATED.  

This is ONE nurse, in ONE hospital, ONE night.  She's tired.  She keeps going in, though.  Her patients are lucky to have someone that cares so much taking care of them, especially the patients who's last vision, or the last person they talk to in this life is her.  But she's tired of being that last face or voice and she's getting angry about being put into this position over and over again by people who didn't need to die.

I just thought that you all should hear a side of this thing, whatever you want to call it, that you may not get to hear.  A voice from the front line.

[robin]

Good luck to ya Gman

[Rams]

I have a daughter in law that works as the Charge Nurse on the Coronary Floor of a hospital, prior to COVID, she had 12 beds, now it's a COVID floor with 48 beds, a combination of heart and covid patients, most with both (as I understand it).   She tells similar stories.   It's sad but, as I tell her, folks pick their path.......

Rams

[Jersey mike]

We know a few people that work in different areas of medicine and it’s not an easy career especially for “people who care”, especially the nurses who deal with patients on at a more personal level and get to know not only the patient but family as well.

Be happy and to know you are so lucky to have married a woman with such compassion.

Hope your back mends soon and you get back home quickly. She sounds like she could use a hug.

[Valkorado]

Related article in today's news.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/19/healthcare-workers-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-pandemic-covid

[cookiedough]

It takes a very special person to do that line of work and especially with Covid patients.

Once you get back together,  treat her to whatever she would like to do, she deserves it.

[Wizzard]

My daughters in laws in their early 70's were not vaccinated and derided their kids for getting vaccinated. They both are very healthy and work out often. Last week they got covid and refused to go to the doctor and instead took whatever they had at home. Tues night the wife got dizzy and weak and her lips and fingernails turned blue. Ambulance picked her up and her blood oxygen was 70%. Waited 24 hours in ER to get a bed as hospital was full. Today they got her a room and she is not getting better and they think her body is fighting organ failure.
It's serious folks

[f6gal]

My daughters in laws in their early 70's were not vaccinated and derided their kids for getting vaccinated. They both are very healthy and work out often. Last week they got covid and refused to go to the doctor and instead took whatever they had at home. Tues night the wife got dizzy and weak and her lips and fingernails turned blue. Ambulance picked her up and her blood oxygen was 70%. Waited 24 hours in ER to get a bed as hospital was full. Today they got her a room and she is not getting better and they think her body is fighting organ failure.
It's serious folks

Yes, it is.  It's a fickle disease... deadly serious for some, life altering for others, and barely a blip on the radar for others.

I sincerely hope your daughter's mother-in-law survives with minimal repercussions. 

[MAD6Gun]

My daughters in laws in their early 70's were not vaccinated and derided their kids for getting vaccinated. They both are very healthy and work out often. Last week they got covid and refused to go to the doctor and instead took whatever they had at home. Tues night the wife got dizzy and weak and her lips and fingernails turned blue. Ambulance picked her up and her blood oxygen was 70%. Waited 24 hours in ER to get a bed as hospital was full. Today they got her a room and she is not getting better and they think her body is fighting organ failure.
It's serious folks

Yes, it is.  It's a fickle disease... deadly serious for some, life altering for others, and barely a blip on the radar for others.

I sincerely hope your daughter's mother-in-law survives with minimal repercussions. 

 That's for sure Connie. I had it recently and to be perfectly honest,I've had cold that hit me harder. I got the Pfizer shots but no boosters.  A good friend of mine who is a cop,fully vaxed and got it. Ended up in the hospital and nows he's going to be on o2 for three more months. A friend of my sisters who works in a nursing home fully vaxed got it and died. An ex co-worker tech of mine,not vaxed also died from it. My point is,this virus hits different people different ways. Although being vaxed is helping obviously, but it's no guarantee your not going to die from it.

[Wizzard]

My daughters in laws in their early 70's were not vaccinated and derided their kids for getting vaccinated. They both are very healthy and work out often. Last week they got covid and refused to go to the doctor and instead took whatever they had at home. Tues night the wife got dizzy and weak and her lips and fingernails turned blue. Ambulance picked her up and her blood oxygen was 70%. Waited 24 hours in ER to get a bed as hospital was full. Today they got her a room and she is not getting better and they think her body is fighting organ failure.
It's serious folks

Yes, it is.  It's a fickle disease... deadly serious for some, life altering for others, and barely a blip on the radar for others.

I sincerely hope your daughter's mother-in-law survives with minimal repercussions. 

 That's for sure Connie. I had it recently and to be perfectly honest,I've had cold that hit me harder. I got the Pfizer shots but no boosters.  A good friend of mine who is a cop,fully vaxed and got it. Ended up in the hospital and nows he's going to be on o2 for three more months. A friend of my sisters who works in a nursing home fully vaxed got it and died. An ex co-worker tech of mine,not vaxed also died from it. My point is,this virus hits different people different ways. Although being vaxed is helping obviously, but it's no guarantee your not going to die from it.

I always figured whatever I could do to reduce my chances of dying from disease was worth the risk, but that is just me.

[Valkorado]

My daughters in laws in their early 70's were not vaccinated and derided their kids for getting vaccinated. They both are very healthy and work out often. Last week they got covid and refused to go to the doctor and instead took whatever they had at home. Tues night the wife got dizzy and weak and her lips and fingernails turned blue. Ambulance picked her up and her blood oxygen was 70%. Waited 24 hours in ER to get a bed as hospital was full. Today they got her a room and she is not getting better and they think her body is fighting organ failure.
It's serious folks

Yes, it is.  It's a fickle disease... deadly serious for some, life altering for others, and barely a blip on the radar for others.

I sincerely hope your daughter's mother-in-law survives with minimal repercussions. 

 That's for sure Connie. I had it recently and to be perfectly honest,I've had cold that hit me harder. I got the Pfizer shots but no boosters.  A good friend of mine who is a cop,fully vaxed and got it. Ended up in the hospital and nows he's going to be on o2 for three more months. A friend of my sisters who works in a nursing home fully vaxed got it and died. An ex co-worker tech of mine,not vaxed also died from it. My point is,this virus hits different people different ways. Although being vaxed is helping obviously, but it's no guarantee your not going to die from it.

I always figured whatever I could do to reduce my chances of dying from disease was worth the risk, but that is just me.

 

No guarantees whatsoever.  The stats coming out of hospitals are still showing that those experiencing the worst outcomes are the unvaxed, by a significant margin.  Others do slip thru the cracks, but those stats are still very important IMHO.

With omicron they recommend the booster, which does show some enhanced protection against the variant causing severe disease.  Not a guarantee for sure, but probably better than a shot in the dark. Especially for those with complicating factors.  We know old age, various illness, immune deficiencies and obesity are near the top of that list.

I honestly am not trying to tell anybody what they should do, but do like to point this out from time to time.  It is one constant in the ever evolving issue.

That said I do think improved vaccines, antivirals and therapeutics are called for.  I support their continued development.

[G-Man]

That said I do think improved vaccines, antivirals and therapeutics are called for.  I support their continued development.

They're coming, they're coming. 

Trump got rid of a lot of the red tape and regulations, but it's still very expensive to bring a drug to market.  Drug companies employ doctors, lawyers, chemical engineers, project managers, etc.  They use state of art equipment.  The also contract out a lot of work to very expensive companies, and everybody has to get everything right the first time or it becomes even more expensive.  With all that said, the drug companies have to charge for the product.  With this product, the government is the biggest customer.  This pisses people off and also creates crazy conspiracy theories.