Lego-Stand
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- Nov 6, 2003
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I do not post often but I love the Albion and really enjoy reading this board The NSC community is wonderful and represents a cross section of society
My wife is a nurse of 28 years and has worked on ICU, CCU, HDU , Wards etc. She is now a Specialist Nurse and visits her patients on the wards periodically. When she walked through the door yesterday after her shift I knew from her face something was wrong.
In all those years of nursing she has seen an awful lot as you could imagine, trauma,death,life,people overcoming the odds ,families sitting by the beds of loved ones for days and families not caring or even visiting.
She has nursed young and old of all backgrounds and creeds along with fellow professionals from all over the world. Yesterday just stood in the hallway and described the situation as a war zone. Doctors have been told they will contract this virus but if they do, leave the hospital self isolate and return after 7 days .When they return they will swap with the clean doctors who have been working in their absence. In effect rotas are being drawn up based on contraction.
I will not or cannot tell you about numbers of beds, available ventilators or cases but this hospital is nearing capacity. If 20% of the staff go sick they will be under enormous pressure. Plans are in place to back fill but its going to be incredibly tough for ALL NHS workers in whatever capacity. She saw an old couple come in together who have been self isolating the male quickly deteriorated and was sent to ICU the lady was sent home. This man will die alone. A dementia patient with suspected COV 19 was wandering the wards potentially infecting people because all other staff were flat out treating patients.
She will now be on the front line working crazy hours potentially 7 days a week now until the forseeable future. She may contract the virus ,she is a mum, daughter, wife and our family are right behind her.
Be in no doubt this thing is a killer , socially distance self isolate and take care of each other. I am not getting drawn into any political debates but if you do not follow advice as has been indicated by a few on this thread you are going to heap a whole lot more misery on which is fast becoming an untenable position.
Take care all
My wife is a nurse of 28 years and has worked on ICU, CCU, HDU , Wards etc. She is now a Specialist Nurse and visits her patients on the wards periodically. When she walked through the door yesterday after her shift I knew from her face something was wrong.
In all those years of nursing she has seen an awful lot as you could imagine, trauma,death,life,people overcoming the odds ,families sitting by the beds of loved ones for days and families not caring or even visiting.
She has nursed young and old of all backgrounds and creeds along with fellow professionals from all over the world. Yesterday just stood in the hallway and described the situation as a war zone. Doctors have been told they will contract this virus but if they do, leave the hospital self isolate and return after 7 days .When they return they will swap with the clean doctors who have been working in their absence. In effect rotas are being drawn up based on contraction.
I will not or cannot tell you about numbers of beds, available ventilators or cases but this hospital is nearing capacity. If 20% of the staff go sick they will be under enormous pressure. Plans are in place to back fill but its going to be incredibly tough for ALL NHS workers in whatever capacity. She saw an old couple come in together who have been self isolating the male quickly deteriorated and was sent to ICU the lady was sent home. This man will die alone. A dementia patient with suspected COV 19 was wandering the wards potentially infecting people because all other staff were flat out treating patients.
She will now be on the front line working crazy hours potentially 7 days a week now until the forseeable future. She may contract the virus ,she is a mum, daughter, wife and our family are right behind her.
Be in no doubt this thing is a killer , socially distance self isolate and take care of each other. I am not getting drawn into any political debates but if you do not follow advice as has been indicated by a few on this thread you are going to heap a whole lot more misery on which is fast becoming an untenable position.
Take care all
I’m sorry that pointing out some inconvenient truths seems to have upset some of you. It seems like we’re happy to share our gratitude but also happy to skirt around the elephant in the room. God forbid we should take this moment of crisis to reflect.
