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  • Day 6: April 8 #NYC #CovidDeployment
    Where to start? I know there are a lot of people at home counting on me to convey the truth about what is real and actually going on here in New York. Those who have worked with me know that I can handle some ****. I once put my bare fingers in the stab wound of a neck artery as the blood squirted at me and the patient gasped for air. I now say that after yesterday, my first real day in the ER of what appears have been a normally functioning community type hospital, I am absolutely mortified and scarred for life. I have NEVER, under any circumstance felt such unimaginable defeat. It’s the worst episode of greys anatomy. It’s 100% worse than that nightmare you had that you left without giving report. Doctors are resorting to checking their own vitals and drawing their own blood if need be. They are moving patients around, pulling carts to more open areas to intubate right in the hallway, 3 feet from another patient. There are people praying out loud, absolutely begging nurses and doctors running all over the place in circles around them to save them. And they’re dying. They’re dying right there in the hall. We’re running out of oxygen tanks over and over again, leaving these people with nothing. The wall oxygen is being occupied by vents. People can’t breathe and there’s nothing we can do besides prone them and try to comfort them while another one crashes and needs to be intubated. So, you have to walk away and try to help the next. People are circling the drain, and put in que to be intubated next. My emotions and thoughts- all over the place- up and down-all day long. One minute I’m hyping myself up saying, “you can do this!” “Be smart!” “Who can you help?” Then, “I can’t do this.” “This is terrifying!” “ is it worth it? What if I catch it?” “Be strong for these people!” “Say the right thing!” “It might be the last thing they hear. ” Then, I’d cry. I’ve got on so many layers over my face that nobody can see that I’m crying, so I kept working. Nobody knows where anything is. Nobody is a staff nurse, and some have been there 3 days from all over the country. And the 3 dayers are numb. Working tirelessly to perform tasks like starting IV’s, foleys, essential meds, oxygen, etc. without a break to remove the mask for 12 hours straight. Not even a sip of anything to drink.
    I started with 6 patients and couldn’t even get into the computer to look at a single thing about them for the first three hours. When I got in, it had been 27 hours since a set of vitals were documented on my vents. My vented patients are on drips to gravity. “You better guess right because If you run that fentanyl too fast Erin, you’re going to be the reason she finally dies.” It’s haunting! Hundreds of alarms are sounding every second of every minute. Hourly rounding is to make sure my patients are still alive, and for what? They’re all waiting for their turn. During one of the waves that we completely ran out of oxygen, a man was strugling, praying in the hallway. He was noticed to be dead with his hands folded over his chest. He lie there, dead,for an hour before he was put into a body bag and moved wherever the rest of them are going. Labs are overdue from 2 days ago. Pharmacy is doing their best to load they Pyxis and we’re out of Zithromax, rocephin, and hydroxychloraquine every 20 mins. We keep trying to pull it because sometimes we get lucky and it’s there. Then we have to decide which one of our patients to give it to because it’s ordered for all of them. When we draw their blood, we know right away because it’s black. And these people are on carts in the hallway without masks and carts are blocking doorways, closets, utility and storage rooms. We put in a chest tube in the hallway. We put in foleys in the hallway. Privacy is not a thing here. Everybody has diarrhea. People are getting cleaned up- maybe once per shift. I did vitals on my vented patients once, maybe twice in a 12 hour period. I had some patients that I never checked a pulse ox on in 12 hours. There are a hundred or more nurses and doctors all garbed up, running in circles doing what they can, and it’s not enough.
    I cried. I got mad. I felt useless. And everyone said, you’re doing the best you can. We all are! But, I thought we came here to save people. The reality is that we don’t have the resources to save people. For the first time ever, as I try to pour water to a plastic cup for a lady to take her medicine, I think “Maybe this is the end of the world! Otherwise, why would every- single- thing- we are doing be going so wrong?!” The water won’t turn on. When it does turn on, it’s dripping- drops into the cup. Then, I cry again.
    When I got on the bus at the end the longest day of my entire life, the others who were on day 3 in the ER did their best to comfort me. The first step is acceptance. This is what this is. To survive here and do our best, we first have to accept that we can’t change this. I’m not used to accepting that. In the ER, we are damn good at saving people. This is torture! So many thoughts, like “maybe I’m not good enough to be here.” “Maybe nurses who are more experienced with vents and know what to do should be here instead of me.”
    When I got back to the hotel, I spent some time talking to another nurse who walked out of the ICU during her shift because her patients weren’t properly sedated and waking up on the vents. Patients are sedated on vents with fentanyl alone. We both reached out to coordinators of the company who were very understanding, let us cry, and allowed us to take a mental health day today. We were up late. We shared our thoughts and feelings, and more importantly, our goals here. We were able to speak with a specialized counselor who has military background and now provides services to traumatized healthcare workers. He was amazing. He encouraged me to dig deep and discover what my goals are here. What can I do to help that will make a difference? Things that are achievable. I spent the night thinking, and was able to get some much needed rest all morning and early afternoon today.
    Now, I will walk to the store and get some supplies and food for some of my fellow nurses. I’m going to try to find something hot to order all of us for dinner when they get off the bus in 2 hours.
    I received 2 packages today! They TRULY humbled me. Thank you to my backbones, my support, my husband and family and friends who are amazing. The call I received from my nephew Aiden was the best part of my entire day yesterday.
    Tomorrow is a new day.
    Please!!! I beg you all!!! STAY HOME!!! WE DO NOT WANT THIS HERE!!!!
  • From a nurses blog. Don't think the above was made up.
  • Places I think are mostly underreporting. The count comes from hospitals, not the dead still laying around in people's houses etc.
  • In Ecuador I think it was, they have 300 dead. Truth is some of the cities smell so bad you can hardly breath in them. I'm not even sure they know what's going on in the rest of the world.
  • I am sure many places have quit counting altogether by now.
 
Wow

Black blood? That is something I have not heard before.
I'm afraid we will get bits and pieces forever.
Not the flu.
Not pneumonia.
Not respiratory.
More like an oxygen problem. Sounds like destroyed red blood cells leaving tons of iron floating around.
Just my opinion.
 
it would be useful to have the exact source. "a nurses blog" is not sufficient to verify.
The other bullets are speculative extrapolations. They are one person's conclusions based on that person's impressions. I wouldn't put much weight on them as a critique of the statistics being used by the governmental and other response organizations.
 
is not sufficient to verify.
If I were to send you to Hart Island for a firsthand report, when you gave it to me it would be second hand, and third hand to whoever I gave it to. So I guess we just have to take what we have and do with it what we will.

The other bullets are speculative extrapolations.
Yup, as I noted.
Edited. Sorry you are correct, I did not qualify the bullets. Thought I had.
 
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If I were to send you to Hart Island for a firsthand report, when you gave it to me it would be second hand, and third hand to whoever I gave it to. So I guess we just have to take what we have and do with it what we will.
Actually a direct link or specific page reference would be a totally legitamate primary source citation.
If I went, it would be my first hand observation. I would still have to quote and cite the nurse for the nurse's description for that additional and more knowledgable perspective. Hope that makes sense.
 
Hope that makes sense.
Yes it does. But it is still the internet, and I don't personally know the nurse.
More wild speculation from me:

In a few weeks you will be hard pressed to find anyone in ER who doesn't say those exact things.
There are certain stages people go through when dealing with crap like this. That last is when it becomes self evident.
As in "We hold these truths to be self evident."
In other words, no need at all for proof.
 
It all depends on where you're at geographically. Nurses and doctors in different parts of the country are all having VERY different experiences throughout this whole ordeal.
 
That's pretty much as it should be. That's not inflation.
Contributed to is what is being counted. We all die eventually. The stats are about the immediate contributing cause.
As far as first hand info., not really. First hand info is what a person sees and experiences themselves.
Of course putting suspected patients in with those who actually have the virus makes no sense. Most likely the details and procedure has been confused in the telling and retelling. That's normal too.
I heard it first hand, not some account that I read somewhere from who knows who, or heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend...... Great song by the way. The point about the count is these people are wheeled in to the floor where they treat the corona. If they are there, then it must be from corona. There is more, but I'm just responding to the death count. Hospitals are most likely to get reimbursed for the money spent on the care, and if it's a for profit hospital?
And the black blood, here is definition

The main cause of black blood in the body is due to low blood oxygen levels. This occurs especially when there are few or inadequate red blood cells in the body that can carry oxygen to several organs and tissues in the body. There is also a situation where fluid buildup in the lung sacs.

Black Blood - Meaning, Causes and Treatment
hellomrdoctor.com/black-blood/
 
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If they are there, then it must be from corona.
Many times it is, however if you are not obviously ill they will send you home, at least from some hospitals. They know you will be back.
Frequent flyers are all but a thing from the past.

As a side note, apparently the flu season which normally would be going on during this period has sort of died out. Early, like the end of Feb. Due to lockdown they figure. It doesn't get passed so easy I guess.
 
carry oxygen to several organs and tissues in the body
This is the reason the whole counting thing is screwy.
Lack of oxygen will shut down your kidneys and kill you. Lack of oxygen will cause your liver to fail. Also fatal. Lack of oxygen will stop your heart.
And it will pretty much wreck every other function of your body. So...did you die from Covid, heart attack, kidney failure, drowning, suffocation, or a combination of some or all?
 
Hearing something from someone else is not first hand. That is hearsay.

Take the number of people dying every day now, and you can imagine what the ER's look and feel like.
They are burying people in mass graves in New York's Hart Island as we speak.
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Take the number of people dying every day now, and you can imagine what the ER's look and feel like.
They are burying people in mass graves in New York's Hart Island as we speak.
Not my point. Not disagreeing with your point.
My point was a response to the claim of first hand knowledge of the statistic gathering methodology. See here:post 100.
 
Not my point. Not disagreeing with your point.
My point was a response to the claim of first hand knowledge of the statistic gathering methodology. See here:post 100.

Listen dude. It is not hearsay. It's easy for you to say crap like that, with no way to prove it. I know what I heard, and I trust that source. Now you? Who the hell are you to place judgement on me? You ain't squat but a dude on a keyboard. I will not sit back while I'm being called a liar. So, go pound sand.
 
1800+/- deaths yesterday in the U.S.

Not much to argue there. No matter who tells the story. First, second or fortieth hand. This is real. 15000 deaths in 10 days. That’s 1500 / day average.

Show me where the flu has done this, besides the “Spanish flu” maybe?
 
Listen dude. It is not hearsay. It's easy for you to say crap like that, with no way to prove it. I know what I heard, and I trust that source. Now you? Who the hell are you to place judgement on me? You ain't squat but a dude on a keyboard. I will not sit back while I'm being called a liar. So, go pound sand.
Of course you heard it. Never said you didn't.
 
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