Wyldnwoody44

Yesterday all I did was wear the Papper with face shield and the other PPE, a reusable gown I have to wipe down after seeing patients. Unfortunatley the small hospital I was at yesterday doesn't have the "tent" that we use at the slightly bigger facilities. It's similar to what you mentioned above. The one patient I had, had a clogged Trach, so working under any hood would have made it difficult At OGH for example, we are trying to have an intubation team that takes care of all the intubations so we are cross containing less and putting less at risk overall. Even for any nebulizer treatments, we have special pieces now that are in place for RT to use and we're trying to discourage Bipap as much as possible until we can find a way to do it a little safer, all aerosolized procedures take place in negative pressure rooms.

Nah its syphilis, you don't notice it for long periods of time until you do, and then, it's just bad.

Just intubated 2 patients in the same hour, both older, both presumed Covid patients,wont know for sure for a few days. Intubation and other aerosol procedures give the highest risk to all involved. This whole thing just sucks ? Fingers crossed we can start returning towards more "normal" by mid spring

Anyone familiar with the kon-tiki? Those guys were awesome, very little naval experience and sailed on a makeshift raft halfway around the world. I want to start kon-tiki part 2, who's with me?! It would certainly be a welcome distraction

Sadly I have to try and sleep today as I just got home from that pit of despair they call a care center. I don't hide my overall feelings and there are certainly some good people out there, some good people here on SS for that matter. This pandemic has just reinforced what I've seen prior. Greed, selfishness, idiocy, etc... We are not thriving. I may need to take a break, all media, internet, etc. Its difficult considering my current life position. Anywho, off to sleep, see y'all on the "bright" side

Damn, I'm over here seeing people every day and I'm sad I can't be quarantined away from the sheer stupidity that I see. If anything, we should learn from this that we need more school days per year for our kids so they don't grow up to be idiots. Critical thinking?... Nope, what's that.... Merica' All this virus has done is expose just how collectively dumb we are as a human population. Rant over

Average vent times around 5-6 days with good resolution, no? I signed a DNR/DNI about 6 years ago, maybe I should suspend it until this is over, I've been pondering it for a bit

I went there last week or the week before it was nice as it always is, a lot of the trails were closed for hiking and my favorite little diner in Mt Morris wasn't available (Brian's USA diner). But still a nice little cruise and walk-around.

Just rode 30 miles, the first half was nice, but the way home there were terrible crosswinds. 2000ft of elevation change. Also, I had a brain fart, at a red light I didn't unlock my feet from my pedals quick enough and slammed down hard on my left side, of course in front of all the traffic from the people that should be home. Very embarrassing indeed ?

It's all good, we could use a little fun these days ? Also a pillar of Buddhism is understanding suffering, so I'm already prepped from being a sabres fan ? Now back to your regularly scheduled Covid....

It doesn't really jive, but then again i said I'm studying it, not devout ? I also know a lot of other religions that don't practice what they preach, another topic for another discussion.

Well as for the last part, I've been studying Buddhism ever since I spent time with the monks in Thailand. I do believe in a higher power, just not quite there yet to a personal answer on this journey. I do appreciate the words of encouragement from everyone, and I wish all the best through this.

Ii appreciate reading this thread, honestly I know that the world is losing it, and we, by no means, have the answers. With that being said, I have conversed with many here, met many and we all sort of "get" each other to a certain point. This Covid thing came out of the blue for all intents and purposes, and it's weighed on me more than I would like it to. When I say this, I don't mean the actual virus itself, but the reaction in the world to it. The hoarding, greed, lack of thinking and foresight, the selfishness, finger pointing, racism, social media attention seeking, etc. I can handle the medical side of it, that's what I was born and trained to do, it's why I put myself into the 3rd world without a second though, and conversing with my 2md family and kiddos from Uganda today, it made my heart very heavy. Were sitting here in the 1st world acting like asshats and they are in just as much trouble there with almost zero chance to fight back and I can't get down there to help. I go to the hospital run by business people, ill prepared, and people are still showing up entitled and ignoring guidelines. Meanwhile my heart breaks for a culture that does whatever it can to survive. Sure, it's nice all these gestures around NYC and etc, but the negatives I've witnessed from this pandemic have far outweighed the good. I've been trying to avoid most media, social media, news, etc but it's literally impossible, especially since I work in this field. This last couple of weeks has been tough on everyone, apologies for the venting, but I feel this is a place that I can and others may understand a bit. I'm close to the edge of resigning and starting a new career, financially it may not work, but it's more on the forefront of my mind than ever before and Covid has really pushed that lingering thought to the foreground. I'm just tired.

This job sucks on normal days, it's basically unbearable now, I feel ya @North Buffalostay strong!

With the amount of narcotics I had in me, I was, mentally.

I'll take max domi please

I was hoping to get out there and show my real skillllz but I was in the back getting shot up with morphine for my very nicely faked injury.

So you won't come to the hospital and flirt with me..... And here I thought we had something special?

I find him to be insufferable as a person. I know many people with mental health issues, I also know alcoholics. They aren't all *****, he is. Still, I'm glad he got help.

Oh boys, I now use proper riding gear (now that I'm an adult ??) also, I'm an octopus not a squid, duh

Honestly I am just hoping for a quick conclusion, we have world renound virologists and people of science on this. On a side note health care workers are being attacked in public, people coming up to them in gas stations and spraying them with lysol, and other ridiculous things. I had to stop at Wal mart (shiver) this morning, after I left an overnight shift, I changed into clean scrubs and showered before leaving, but I was still out and about in scrubs... The evil eyes and stares I was getting was out of hand, all the hoarders were looking at me like an alien with death stares. Kinda eerie, and firmly keeping me in mind mind of belief that we need natural selection ?

I pulled the trigger ? y'all can help spread my ashses soon ?

Yes, I am mixing up my years and my diseases, my apologies. The sheer amount of crap we're being put through in the Healthcare field is causing some flip flopping for all of us, mentally speaking. Every day, new guidelines, new procedures, new stories, wading through the muck, etc. I'll put it as plainly as I can from a personal perspective. I was trained in the military to prepare for stuff like this, quarantine, etc. I dont personally belive this is as bad as we are making it out to be; I don't think it's just the flu, but I don't think it warrants national and international shutdown. With that being said, if we are going to declare a national emergency and a pandemic I do have an expectation that those in charge (leaders of health organizations, hospitals, etc) will have their crap together, and we simply do not. I may not agree with everything that is going on, but in my job, I can take orders well. Someone level headed needs to take charge and it's simply not happening (especially in my current local situation). The lack of preparedness and the lack of following through on this social distancing thing makes this feel like a joke.

I believe I was

It's not the flu as in influenza, but it's grossly similar, it's a virus, a novel virus similar to the flu, a novel virus (swine). I'm indurated with information about all of this stuff, but I also have real life experience working through H1N1, we easily could have had this level of involvement with H1N1 but we didn't, even with many more deaths than what the predictions are here with this virus. The Info I'm seeing and hearing from colleagues and news media are varying from day to day and site to site. It's hard to grasp exactly.