Just a few stories:
One nurse I know is on workman's comp. There was a shoot-out in the parking lot of her in-patient facility. The perp was driving a stolen car. Crashed it. Waited for the cops to show up before skedaddling. Cops cornered him in the parking lot against the building. Mensa candidate pulled out a handgun and did a magazine dump. Cops TASERED his butt. The nurse had been working too many hours. Had a melt-down. BAM! Disability. The facility is now down ONE MORE nurse.
Another nurse of my acquaintance works in an Oncology ward. Procedures have been delayed. Patients on chemo have to negotiate hallways with Covid patients on gurneys.
One of my sisters has both of her in-laws in the hospital with Covid. The first one bunked in the ER for two nights.
A radiologist I know looks at a hundred images an hour. That is his job: Picture pops up on his super-high-resolution screen and he has X number of seconds to look at it and type in a conclusion. The images have a patient number, age, gender and the reason the image was taken. He is extremely rattled and that made an impression on me.
He lost count of the number of images he has looked at of patients in their thirties (and sometimes twenties) whose lungs are opaque. That is, they will probably be in the morgue in 24 hours.
Belladonna is a lab-tech. She was working locally and had just finished her ten hour shift when her boss got a phone-call from the Ionia facility which is almost an hour away. The person in Ionia BEGGED for any lab-tech help. Belladonna agreed to help them out for three hours after the boss offered to pay drive-time.
I am lucky. I don't have a high need to interact with large numbers of people. It is easy to be dismissive of Covid, like "Yeah, I know it is out there"
But the medical people are totally fried. A significant percentage of the fifty-and-older decided this was a good time to retire. The number of "beds" were wrung out to stay profitable. This is not a slam on capitalism. Without profit the facilities could not support Medicaid and indigent patients.
I promised Mrs ERJ I would not climb any ladders or use the chainsaw until the Covid rates in Michigan abated. This is a good time to stay out of hospitals.
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| Eaton County is just west of Lansing. It is the county with "Lan" in it. The seven-day-average new case rate was about 50:100,000 on Nov 2 Source |
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| November 19 the new case rate had doubled to about 100:100,000 per day. I am not able to confirm whether every positive Covid test is counted as a unique case. |
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| By November 28, things had settled down with regard to new cases. But bear in mind that the train-wrecks usually happen after the case is diagnosed. |
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| December 7, going back into the ditch. |
I required hyoerbaric oxygen treatments for about two months due to leg wounds which would not heal using topicals or pills for several months prior to HB treatments. PITA - two hours a day, 5 days a week layed out in air chamber. But it turned the corner on the wounds and they are now healed.
ReplyDeleteCause - cat bite. Yep, cat bite. Household pet took a playful nip in my calf. I wiped it off and forgot about it. Big mistake on my part - I had no idea of the chain reaction that would cause. A lot of $$$ and time spent to fix.
Bottom line - bites and scratches should be cleaned well and providine / betadine cleaning for a minute or so. And keep an eye on it. I learned an expensive lesson I hope other readers here will avoid.
Puncture wounds are particularly difficult to clean and care for. Emergency medicine protocols involve shaving skin away from puncture site because debris is often deposited between the layers of skin. Protocol also involves running a blunt hypodermic needle down to bottom of puncture and irrigating with vast amounts of sterile water to flush particles out. Particles (which can include dirt that was originally on the surface of the skin) harbor bacteria. Conditions in puncture wound can easily become anaerobic in clots that form. Some very bad, toxin forming bacteria form under anaerobic conditions.
DeleteGLad you are better.
My wifes aunt died from a cat bite. Don't remember all the details but it involved her husband giving her the antibiotics that were prescribed for HIS catbite. The medicine didn't work and they didn't get her to the doc in time.
DeleteSame Anon here - you weren't kidding about 'invasive cleaning' procedure. After receiving topical pain deadening, PA used a tiny 'scorp' type of tool to remove dead cells inside wound. A week for wound to heal, followed by more debridementof wounds, which spread out to both sides of calf. It was like a game of 'Battleship' (where would the next wound form ?)
DeleteThankfully, done for now. You bet I'm far more careful. Yes - we kept the cat.
Covid is real and a real threat. But primarily, it is a threat to the old and the fat. The Lancet did a deep dive into Covid hospitalizations and deaths in July and their takeaway was this - the biggest risk factor is being old and the second biggest risk factor (even more than having asthma or cancer) is being fat. But don't believe random crap people post on the internet - read the source doc: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8587(21)00089-9/fulltext
ReplyDeleteI believe that what we are seeing with the new wave of "Covid" that is filling up ER's and hospitals is not Covid, but Covid vaccine injuries. Your radiologist friend seeing cases too numerous to count of young people in their twenties and thirties who will most likely be dead in 24 hours cannot be simply "Covid". Especially when it was nowhere near this high of a young persons body count the first and second time around.
ReplyDeleteMany of the most respected epidemiologists and medical scientists begged governments to halt the vaccine, which fell on deaf ears. Luc Montagnier, the Nobel prize winning discoverer of the HIV virus, predicted exactly what we are seeing now. Young people too numerous to count with pericarditis, myocarditis, and deep vein thrombosis. Professional athletes collapsing and dying of heart attacks and pulmonary embolism. And by far, the number one symptom of Covid vaccine injury across all age groups looks exactly like a severe case of.....Covid.
I posted this comment under my name (George True), just like I always do, so I don't know why it came up as 'anonymous'.
DeleteMy wife and I nebulized Hydrogen Peroxide to treat covid and I can definitely say that it had Very beneficial effects. It improved some other issues that I wasn't even aiming at. I got the peroxide at the Family Dollar store cheap and it works fine. I understand what you are saying about that Lansing doctor. But I also learned long ago, and the past two years confirmed , that you can't trust conventional medicine/big pharma either. Get as much info as you can and make your own decisions. And it's inevitable,,,if you live long enough something's gonna kill you. ---ken
ReplyDeleteMy 93-yr-old mother (vaxed, no booster) developed pneumonia a few months ago. When she was released, my sister went on Amazon and got food-grade peroxide and prepared a concoction that included this and iodine, administered via nebulizer. Cleared it up in a week, it was truly amazing. My mom has had a history of nasty colds all through her life, they would leave her congested and with rattling coughs for weeks. The treatment result was astonishing to see. She's sending me the recipe.
DeleteI would really like to see that recipe and I'm sure others would also. --ken
Delete@coyoteken48 - here is a short video on how to prepare and use the treatment, and there is more information in the comments below the video:
Deletehttps://www.bitchute.com/video/QoRi6bu3sMEV/
Here is an interview with the good doctor, interviewing another doctor on the strategy of using iodine:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR1m3vs2QVxzfgYMPHDNHLbMbUQmcPu8-5oFk3OSFepVNYiteCN8rDqIPck&v=VVRZCP0GLtU&feature=youtu.be
All the biggie med firms here are still pushing the vaxx or fired principle and it appears to have bitten them on the arse . All the small/medium firms are hiring those fleeing employees at better money and benefits . One of my renters just left the states largest medical provider for a small eye doctors clinic with better hours , more money and benefits not to mention 40 minutes less drive time .
ReplyDeleteIf you have ears to the ground in the local area, it would be extremely interesting to know how many of the cases in hospital have had the jab. It is possible that info is not easy to get for say, a x ray tech- but it is damned strange the number of covid cases is increasing in synch with the jab rate. I have wondered if the relationship of covid to jab is similar to the one paint has to primer.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry to hear that you have a regional crisis there Joe, and I hope it passes quickly. I do have one question though. It's a natural consequence of the vaccine that it's not 100% effective, even with boosters, and it follows then that as a higher percentage of the population is vaccinated, a higher percentage of COVID patients will turn out to be vaxxed. But my question is this: In your overwhelmed hospitals, (1) how many of the COVID patients are vaxxed, and (2) how many medical professional staff members have they lost in the past 6 months because of self-imposed vaccine mandates?
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