I had to wait to reply to this one.... as a child.. my precious granny was my Northern Star in a life filled with uncertainty, pain and fear in a family raised by a narcissist mother and hard drinking workaholic father...and I felt acutely the distress and fear from your little one as you began to soothe it the best you could. .and to feel your pain that you couldn't just wrap her tightly in your arms, stroke her hair and tell it would all be alright. I pray for all of our little ones.... who long to be held by their shining Lights in their lives...and send Love and Comfort and Spirit hugs.. until the time we can actually hug them freely once more.
I'm beyond words...I so dearly wish this was not the case.
I personally will say a prayer for you and those like you who are taking care of us at this scary, unprecedented time.
You are my hero, and I'm wrapping you and those who also do the heroic work you do in a big bubble of light, protection, love and gratitude.
I wonder how many will be harmed or killed by taking medical advise from unqualified people. There is a trend of people advising others to take untested supplements at the onset of symptoms based on rumors of a medicine that would, in a fantasy world, cure people of this Coronavirus. We know of one thing to take, Tylenol. Everything else is dangerous. Comment boards everywhere are alight with the equivalent of people recommending which brands of lube or Ayurvedic herbs will block the transmission of the HIV virus. Please resist this fad. It shows a lack of seriousness about the virus, and it will most certainly raise the body count in the English speaking world.
Please know these energies are felt and they help us be stronger in tough times. For this, I am deeply grateful.
Also if anyone here has mad sewing skills, please apply them in making masks for us.
Heart blessings to you all,
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Hello friends.
I am a nurse in central NY. We have only begun to get test results back and my hospital has its few first Covid patients (most are unconfirmed PUI). We are at the early beginning and have emptied beds to prepare, have made one floor/wing of the building as negative pressure and there is a huge barrier room one must enter, change into PPE and then enter again--that is where the PUI patients are sent and when they test negative are transferred out to a different floor. There are some Covid - complex patients in ICU as well. But there are nurses being sent home still for low census however we expect that will change so all of us who do not work on inpatient care floors are entered on a roster as to what skills/level of care we are able to function on. My manager thinks we would be most helpful in starting IVs and drawing labs. I personally feel I can work back on step-down floors like high risk telemetry when needed (would prefer my own floor because I know the people but concerned about my old manager who is pregnant). All I know is that chronic population, they are are the highest risk of mortality. So it is a weird quiet time for me-- I have work but not very busy. It is crazy how we have shifted from being so busy and overscheduled to half a unit/day scheduled.
My husband is an electrician and is also kept working on a project at a local pharmaceutical company. They are building a new lab there. The people left working onsite at that company are still very rude to the construction workers. His biggest gripe is the gym being closed. He goes everyday and lifts weights (strength training) he uses exercise to release anxiety and relieve depression and unfortunately, is pretty rigid in his practice. I have tried to suggest trying yoga or other alternates and he has rejected all of my suggestions. After this thing is over, maybe we can build an addition on our house... or find a corner in it that will meet specificiations for him to have a home gym (fitted with squat rack etc.).
So, for us, life has not dramatically changed, we still have a place we have to go every morning. We are lucky we still have income and purpose I guess. We were not super social and are kind of like hermits anyway. I take online classes for my BSN and that has not changed. I am in the middle of a statistics class so am pretty busy. The weather is just getting a little warmer--except this weekend is in the 20-30s. Our son lives with us and is in college and they had Spring Break all week. He plays a lot of video games and reads and watches tv. He just got into a Master's program and we are very excited for him. He is graduating in May but we think the ceremony will be cancelled or postponed and it looks like my MIL won't be able to visit from Florida d/t the pandemic (she planned to attend and stay for a few days).
Our rules keep changing at the hospital. Now there is a No Visitor policy. Now we are not to use airborne/contact precautions, we are following the CDC recommendations of droplet and they have significantly lowered their recommendations to the use of bandanas if we run out which is kind of a dark joke on healthcare protection. If we ran out of bandanas I think they would suggest paper party masks with coffee filters taped over them. We are also told not to talk about the pandemic and the restrictions to each other where patients can hear because it upsets them. (I asked, are we shutting down the cable tv? because they all have the news on). It is like that "Everything is Fine! All is Well!" meme.
On a ridiculous note... I could have sworn I heard the president say that "people are dying that have never died before." I usually avoid listening to his voice but a coworker was playing him on her phone... Did anyone else hear that? I just started laughing thinking it was an SNL skit but she said it was a press conference.
On a ridiculous note... I could have sworn I heard the president say that "people are dying that have never died before." I usually avoid listening to his voice but a coworker was playing him on her phone... Did anyone else hear that? I just started laughing thinking it was an SNL skit but she said it was a press conference.
Yep, he said that. He needs to go. Fingers crossed that those of you who have predicted his farewell in May are correct.
Glad to hear that you are doing this well and life has not drastically changed for you. We need to hear that there is a kind of altered normalcy the many are blessed to experience.
On the other hand sharing your hospital's advise that it wasn't necessary to follow the higher levels of precautions level and dropping so many precautions supposedly based on CDC advisories?? Wow! Is this supposedly going to prevent additional fear and panic by thinking and believing that our government and the CDC has everything under control?
Seems totally absurd based on all we know about this virus and all that's going on it our world. .
The Presidential COVID-19 Task Force, while presenting frank updates and answers to questions by Dr. Anthony Fauci...and even a lot from Dr. B and a few others often does seem like an SNL skit and a parody of the absurd that we are all sharing right now.
Time to get out my bandanas and decorate a few coffee filter masks.
While my routine has not been changed overmuch, the world is different. And the hospital feels different. There is a suppressed feeling of panic in the air. We try to joke around with patients and each other because humor does help vanguish that feeling. Everyone smiles at each other and every day I say "Today is a wonderful day to be alive!" Because it is. Every day is a gift.
Also, we are laying bets on the baby boom to come. Labor and Delivery may be an expanding field in nursing. I think after all this death, people will be so excited about new life coming.