“I have debated all day whether to post this or not.
My wife is currently hospitalized in a critical care unit on the edge of being intubated. She is a healthy 28-year-old mother of 4. Her only downfall was caring too much!
You see my wife is an ER Nurse during a Global Pandemic. And instead of staying home and hoarding toilet paper, she went to work and tried helping Covid-19 patients. Her Unit Director told her he imagines she has single-handedly treated more Positive Covid-19 patients than any other single person in our state.
Now my wife would most likely not be in this predicament she is now if she had not been made to treat patients without appropriate PPE. Patients coming in and were assessed as “Person Under Investigation” (PUI) PPE was authorized. But if anyone came in with other of the early onset symptoms like headache, diarrhea, abdominal discomfort, or chest tightness and the nurse tried to wear PPE they were reprimanded for it.
Fast forward 5 days and these patients the nurses were told not to wear PPE with are in full-blown Covid-19 driven ARDS. And my wife received a call stating “hey remember that patient that came in for xzy the other day? Yeah well they had a Positive Covid-19 test and we are informing you because you were exposed.”
