Posted on 10/25/2014 8:50:03 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The last people to hold Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan's hands to comfort him as he was dying at Dallas' Texas Presbyterian Hospital were his nurses, some of whom will appear on CBS' "60 Minutes" Sunday to explain how they tried to save the Liberian while risking their own lives.
The nurses, John Mulligan, Krista Maxwell, Richard Townsend, and Sedia Rose, will explain the ordeal in their first media interviews following Duncan's death to 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley. The man was the first and only Ebola patient to die from the disease in the United States.
"I was very frightened," Rose told Pelley. "I was. But, and I just dried my tears, rolled down my sleeves, so to speak, and went on about my night."
Duncan had come to the hospital on Sept. 25 with a low-grade fever, but was sent home, only to return three days later with full-blown Ebola symptoms, including a temperature of 103 degrees.
Mulligan, an intensive care nurse who treated Duncan during his final hours, said that by the time he saw Duncan on Oct. 1, his nausea and vomiting had subsided.
But Duncan had to have rectal tubes inserted, said Mulligan, as he "had gotten so weak, he couldn't get up to the commodes anymore," said Mulligan. "So that was to help contain all of his very infectious body fluids that we were dealing with."
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PING!
God bless this wonderful woman!
Apparently Ebola infected patients lose excessive amounts of bodily fluids. Care would involve administering IV fluid replacement and cleaning up of vomit and diarrhea. Also, a blood transfusion from a compatible survivor.
Sadly no one who had survived has a blood type compatible with his.
Well, that was unwise.
I don’t understand the “when nobody else would” with respect to giving comfort to Duncan. After all, if Duncan was in quarantine, you couldn’t just walk to the side of his bed and talk to him for example.
What am I overlooking?
those nobody elses wanted to sock him, not hold his hand...
And that piece of sh!t jackson claims duncan was not treated because he was black. All of these nurses volunteered to take care of this man.
But I can't blame the healthcare workers that called in sick. WHO and CDC have not demonstrated they have control of this.
That’s racist!
Oh wait.....no it’s not.
Would Jesse Jackson have held his hand? Hell no.
I am with you. The nurses are heroes. Our country does not have this under control yet.
Or fools. It's often hard to tell which.
Either way, they show the kindness, the caring, the humanity that us mere mortals can only aspire to.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Those nurses still had some sanity to them. They still just wanted to care and clean up the ever growing mess one would make when extremely sick, however, top government officials would never come close or try. The top government officials wouldn’t do the neccessary quarantine that would save possibly even the lives of the sick with early diagnosis.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
My mother, who is an RN in a local hospital, says that she feels for these patients, but the minute one is admitted to her hospital is the minute she QUITS. She says this hospital is in no way prepared to treat ebola and prevent its spread- and she will NOT expose herself and her family to this dreadful, highly contagious disease that Obama has brought to America!
I understand their sentiments, but should Ebola really take hold, and they all quit, everybody is screwed, not just the Ebola victims, but people with the flu, illegal alien diseases, and other things that might get them admitted to a hospital.
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