R.I.P. Scout26
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I've never known the annual flue season to need emergency hospital wards for intubated patients, ditto the emergency morgue trailers and mass graves. But, I will say in fairness, its because cost cutting measures took out any degree for more than expected patients/fatalities. Hospital buyouts and mergers have shifted focus to profit driven non medically necessary treatments over actual capacity to deal with the sick and injured. Given the rampant incompetence from our government and media, I am so utterly glad this wasn't anything worse. Given the response from my fellow citizens... well, I see how we got this government. New York; just outside an epicenter. I saw my buddy who is a x-ray tech Sunday. They've gone from patients lining the walls of the hallway to a couple in the covid ward. I trust what my local hospital workers tell me for how full/busy their hospitals are more than any website. Sadly, that leaves me out of luck when I want a larger picture.
Mechanical ventilators are essential for treating influenza patients in severe acute respiratory failure.
Friend's dad is being taken off life support, his kidneys have failed. He's been in ICU for at least three weeks after being hospitalized for Covid. I think he's in his lower 70s.
Not to be ghoulish, but did he have any other underlying issues?
Maybe type 2 diabetic, that would about it.
As i recall, that one may be the biggest risk. Very sorry for your friend.
He passed away at 8pm cst tonight. Going to be very rough for my friend, her parents are her everything.
Terri, my wife, gets her C-19 test tomorrow.
Prayers for both of you whenever I read your posts Speedy.Charby, you must live in a real hotspot, a lot of your friends and family getting infected and having bad outcomes.Thankfully, despite living in an early hotspot I've heard or known of very few people even testing positive, let alone having serious complications.Just my one buddies father who had been in hospice care for nearly a year who passed away after taking his second fall. He tested positive but admittedly had a lot of things going bad at once.The handful of other folks testing positive fought it off or had very mild symptoms thankfully.
Well....I kind of felt like it was inevitable....today my COVID test came back positive. I have, of course, the ODD symptoms - loss of smell/taste, a wild rash, and the typical symptoms - deep cough and congestion. We are quarantined and resting. Praying the symptoms stay minor.
I went to the VA for my test today. 3 - 5 days for results. Terri was tested Saturday, 2 - 5 days for hers we are told.
We have had some symptoms, diarrhea, taste issues (wife), sinus issues (more than normal), increased coughing (me), headaches (CONSTANT, BAD ones in my case), generally feeling "blah" and sleeping our lives away.
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