A ICU nurse friend of mine said they are using that mixture right now. One of the patients taking it coded and died a couple days ago. He had one shift last week that had 5 covid-19 patients die. His friend in New York had 20 die in one shift. Says he's never seen anything like it, it's a revolving door of covid-19 with more death than he ever thought he would see. And had plenty of younger healthy people on his unit as well. It's taking a huge mental toll on the healthcare staff. My sister sent three nurses home after having panic attacks where she works.
Sorry to hear about your troubles. Your work at high mountain is incredible. Where are you living now?
Like I said, totally out of control.
Thanks buddy. I appreciate the message. I am very fortunate for sure. I miss seeing you out on the trails.
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NYC has some data coming out as well. It's all good, depending on how severe the case it. Take it with a mild to moderate case, >5days. They are looking at coronary issues as well.
I do feel compelled to comment whenever I read this kind of stuff....and im not trying to dismiss what you're saying. But when non medical people hear that medical professionals are scared, it makes them scared. So I at least feel compelled to point out that my wife and her coworkers at morristowns ER do not feel this way. Her and her friends that she regularly works with at least (not speaking for everyone there of course) are not scared or panicked. As my wife likes to point out to me when I like to bust on her..."are you scared/panicked yet? how about now?"...."If I wasnt panicked when my ER was full of sick kids then a bus accident happened and 30 injured ones showed up...im not going to panic over this...or swine flu, or bird flu, or sars, or h1n1 or ebola...this is what we do everyday and we do not panic."
Tears are solid gold for TV shows like 60 minutes. They may have had to interview many nurses before they got one to cry on camera, the producers were probably elated when she cried. ????
That's the tragic reality of the modern news media... Just saw that CBS stole footage from italian hospitals and passed it off as NYC.
My wife me made turn off 60 minutes last night. She was not entertained by the tears or the portrayal of nurses breaking down or freaking out. She is a CNS in the oncology field and a nursing educator who has spent her whole career working in NYC. Today she spent time in the ER alongside many other RN’s and in her words witnessed “ people doing their jobs with professionalism, empathy and passion”. No tears, no histrionics and no paralyzing fear while surrounded by controlled chaos.
I couldnt have said it better. Having a Respiratory wife who gets to do breathing treatments ( go look that up) on these patients is enough to make anyone cry. My wife for many years is the one who comes into the room typically with the whole family present to shut down the last resort of keeping that loved one alive. Shes cried with those family members because the pain is real, she realize long ago that death is part of the job requirements. Want to see heartbreak is when 20 something is taken off life support for an overdose which has been much too often the last couple years. Her concern is to not bring this home and has changed her routine how to be most sanitized before opening the door. Her biggest complaint having to be masked all day and dressing like a robot 12 times a day.
And Allison has said to me many times regarding what your wife does..."that is a really hard job, I wouldn't want to do it"
Now thats fair, my wife has also pointed out to me...."in the ER, this is what we do, but not every nurse on every floor is used to what we are used to. My wife has told me countless stories over the years in which i feel like I have PTSD just from hearing.....very very tragic things that I cant even un-think about hearing and I wasnt even there to see anything. Usually when people ask me about my wife's work, its more about being concerned how she deals with the tragedy and the awfulness at times....and ill be the first one to admit that i dont know how she, or Mattys wife or the rest of them do it. But this current situation is different in that people are asking her how she is dealing with fear/panic doing her job and I can tell you that its not a feeling that she has ever associated with her job. Stress..100%...aggravation....sadness at times......but not fear or panic. Its just funny in that my wife is a very soft spoken hippy, but if you mention panic in the ER, she pops up like General Patton..WE DO NOT PANIC IN THE ER! EVER!
I was going to say something like this. NJ hospitals are not where NYC hospitals are yet. NYC is worse off than Italy was and 1 in 9 with the disease is dying. On my drive into work. last week I saw a temp hospital set up off route 22 in Hillside area. This is not normal. They said on Bloomberg this morning that the peak is only two weeks away. There are a lot of sick people in NYC and not a lot of beds. How did Washington and Minnesota up the recovery rate so fast?
