Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

PRAYERS PLEASE --- Covid, and on ventilator
Self | 20 Aug 2021 | LTC.Ret

Posted on 08/20/2021 11:25:16 AM PDT by LTC.Ret

My team member is a fraction of an inch from going on a ventilator. She has been in the hospital since Monday on Azithromycin and steroids. Hey God complex MDs --- covid is a VIRUS!!! I have spoken to her previous MD, the Hospitalist in ICU, and the Patient Advocate. The hospital is playing 100% defensive medicine. They will not use or even consider any drug or treatment that is not on the NIH "proven" list of treatments and protocols for a virus we are just now encountering and learning about --- including monoclonal antibody infusion.

Her previous MD did his internship in the VA hospital system --- which gives me little to NO confidence, having been a patient in the VA system since 1985. It is my opinion she is receiving sub-optimal care. I am not comforted by anything I have heard so far.

Despite ongoing research and our TX-Gov announcing today that monoclonal antibodies will be FREE for Texas residents, they are unwilling to even TRY anything that is unlikely to do harm but may in fact have a benefit. Period!!! Immovable!!! Feet in concrete!!!

I asked about the Federal "Right to Try" law --- they don't believe in that or allow that either.

The "advocate" even had the gall to suggest that IF she wasn't vaccinated, it was her own fault. So comforting.

If she dies in that hospital, I will make it my personal effort to do everything in my power to claim the licenses of every MD and nurse that allowed her to lay in a bed and die rather than deviate one millimeter from the written recipe protocol that they are following like lemmings. In fact --- I don't even see why they need MDs and nurses when anyone off the street could follow the directions on the paper and treat patients just as well.

And, when research proves that certain modalities are in fact effective, I will do my utmost best to legally "own" that hospital --- and everyone involved will be reminded as often as possible that they let people DIE rather than step outside their comfy little box.

"First do no harm" does NOT limit treatment to only the tried and proven. If that were true, medicine will still be stagnated in the dark ages --- where it appears to me this hospital wants to be . . .


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: idiocracy
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-72 next last
To: LTC.Ret

Prayers. It is rough being on a ventilator. My mother has been on 7 weeks now, and she is not going to make it, in her case, diseases of old age, not covid.

I pray for your friend, that her recovery be swift, her time on the vent short, that she is comfortable and responds well to treatment, that you find in the doctors more flexibility and competence and care than you now expect.


41 posted on 08/20/2021 12:26:09 PM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate other.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LTC.Ret

Good luck.

One of our direct DNA pools was diagnosed with the crud in late July.

A month later he is now just 55 and doing fine.

Like most of us in our family at that age, he was never sick with the exception of allergies in the late spring time/early summer.

Then, he saw a nearby renta doc for his yearly allergy shots.

So he didn’t have a regular family doc.

When this crud hit, he had problems breathing, and he saw his renta doc and the diagnosis was severe Covid based on a quick PCR.

The advice from the renta doc was to stay home in isolation. If he got to the point of not being able to breath, he should go to a hospital and be admitted to their ICU and put on a ventilator. The doctor recommended a lot of fluids and sunshine when possible.

Instead, he got home treatment with known RX products. In 5 days he was well enough to return to walking. A week later he returned to his morning or afternoon run of 2 miles instead of 4. He is back to 4 miles a day now.

He returned to work after his isolation period was over.

We talked to him this morning after his morning 4 mile run.

He wasn’t panting, and his sense of humor is back.

So if infected with this crud stay out of the hospital and use recommended treatments for your crud not some herb or vitamin that might work.

Last but not least, he is basically a healthy 50 year old and not an 80 year old+ with some severe health problems.


42 posted on 08/20/2021 12:29:11 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (If I wanted to live in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, China, Cuba, or Chicago! I'd move there! )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LTC.Ret

FYI my husband (age 71 at the time, overall poor physical condition) was put on a ventilator in April 2020 for 8 days. He did receive the HCQ treatment for a couple days, until his Covid test came back negative (this whole pandemic was just getting off the ground at that time).

He actually recovered and was released to step-down care after about 10 days in the ICU, did another month in nursing/rehab facility, had several weeks of at-home PT and OT, and has been doing well/healthy ever since.

Just to give some hope that she will possibly pull out of this, even with the ventilator situation.

Praying....


43 posted on 08/20/2021 12:33:36 PM PDT by NEMDF
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Bearshouse

“The monoclonal antibodies are now available in all states if you do become infected. You can find a location near you by using this website.”

We have 3 friends, all 80 something whose lives were saved by monoclonal antibodies. They seem to be improving on a weekly if not daily basis.


44 posted on 08/20/2021 12:33:43 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (If I wanted to live in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, China, Cuba, or Chicago! I'd move there! )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: LTC.Ret

Prayers up. Your friend needs so much more than they are doing. At this stage, the lungs likely are suffering from the InflammoThromboticResponse-needs anticoagulents.

Ivermectin, Vitamin C infusions etc. can still help. There are a number of physicians in the Texas area that are with front line doctors, or FLCCC. You might try talking to one of them about what you can do. You may need an emergency court order?

Here’s a link the the FCCC protocol, but likely that the Dr. won’t do it without being forced by court order, or unless you can get a Dr. willing to run interference or replace whoever is running the treatment.

https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/math-plus-protocol/

Good luck to you. So glad your friend has someone to try to help.


45 posted on 08/20/2021 12:35:55 PM PDT by greeneyes ( Moderation In Pursuit of Justice is NO Virtue--LET FREEDOM RING)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LTC.Ret

God can and does perform miracles.

This poor soul needs one now.

And AFAIK, once a person is admitted to the hospital with covid - nothing, not Ivermectin or and MAB’s are gonna help.

Prayers for her friends and loved ones.


46 posted on 08/20/2021 12:56:46 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It's my government that I hate.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LTC.Ret

Heavenly Father, please help your beloved daughter. Give at least some of her doctors the wisdom to stop what isn’t working and give her medicine which will actually help her, even if it isn’t exactly their standard protocol. Let them seek YOUR wisdom in this matter. And send your Holy Spirit to her to give her strength, comfort, and to begin a miraculous healing process in her. In Jesus’ Holy Name.


47 posted on 08/20/2021 1:10:04 PM PDT by KittyKares (I miss President Trump!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: who knows what evil?

Can you say $39,000 a day? Put them on a ventilator and keep them in a coma for as long as possible. Could die after a couple of weeks, but kept on the ventilator for a couple of months, if no relative checks.


48 posted on 08/20/2021 1:12:47 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: LTC.Ret

I don’t know how accurate this is for taking ivermectin paste and converting it for use in humans but here it is:

I posted earlier that the dose I took was proportional to what a horse is given to get rid of worms. Since then I have joined a community Dr. Lee Merritt formed at the website “TheMedicalRebel,” where you can find answers to lots of questions about Covid. Dr. Merritt posted a protocol she likes (see attached file), but she mentions that there are quite a few out there. As part of her service for $8/mo, you can submit one question per week, and I asked her to confirm that my calculations were correct based on the protocol for 0.3mg/kg.
So, here it is:
Suppose I weigh 200 lbs. Since there are 2.2 lbs/kg, I divide 200 by 2.2 to get 90.9 kg. Since the protocol calls for 0.3mg/kg, I multiply 90.9 times 0.3 to get 27.3 mg of ivermectin needed for one dose.
Now, on to find out how many milligrams of ivermectin a tube of equine apple-flavored paste contains. The box says that the paste has 1.87% ivermectin, and that the tube weighs 6.08g. Convert 6.08 grams to milligrams by multiplying by 1000, or 6080 milligrams. 1.87% of the 6080 mg is ivermectin, or 0.0187(6080), which yields 113.7 mg of ivermectin per tube.
The 200 lb person needs a dose of 27.3 mg, so dividing 113.7 by 27.3 gives us 4.2 doses per tube. That’s a little over 4 doses per tube, which is super cheap!! I saw chewy was selling a tube for $4.99. Can you believe that? a buck and a quarter per dose.
Dr. Merritt confirmed that this is correct. “


49 posted on 08/20/2021 1:14:15 PM PDT by NoLibZone (In 2 yrs only living will be conservative Christians Liberal vaxed sheep will be dead.Trust G's plan)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: annalex; Cronos; ebb tide

Also pray for Raymond Cardinal Burke who has corona virus and is on a ventilator.


50 posted on 08/20/2021 1:40:37 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Salvation

51 posted on 08/20/2021 1:43:55 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 50 | View Replies]

To: ebb tide

Is that from today?

Praise and thanks to God if it is true.


52 posted on 08/20/2021 2:25:12 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: LTC.Ret
Last year, Spanish researchers reported an improvement to the HCQ treatment. As of last year, their "standard of care" included HCQ.
In a study, 76 patients with Covid-19 were treated: 26 with "standard of care" and 50 with "standard of care" + a high dose Vitamin D analog (calcifediol ). The patients were selected when they were admitted to a hospital for Covid treatment.

For the group receiving calcifediol, only 1 (of 50) had to go to the ICU, and none died.
For the group not receiving calcifediol, 13 (of 26) went to the ICU and 2 died.

Given the proven effectiveness of Vitamin D against respiratory infections in the past, one physician was appalled that the CDC had not already done a similar study. We can expect the bureaucrats to ignore this study.

The study:

“Effect of calcifediol treatment and best available therapy versus best available therapy on intensive care unit admission and mortality among patients hospitalized for COVID-19: A pilot randomized clinical study”

Here is an analysis of the study:
Vitamin D, First clinical trial

Here is another analysis of the same study:
New Study - Vitamin D High Dose and COVID-19

Calcifediol raises blood levels of Vitamin D quickly. This is because it is the same as what the liver produces from regular vitamin D. Processing by the liver introduces days of delay, which might have been fatal for some of the Chinese Virus patients in this study. It is probably a good idea to get a prescription for Calcifediol and have some handy in case you develop Chinese Virus symptoms.

When last I checked, enough calcifediol for a course of treatment cost about $1500 (based on internet prices).

The .532mg dose of calcifediol is roughly equivalent to .532mg of vitamin D3, which is 532 mcg or 21280 IU. Again, the reason the study used calcifediol was because of the slow conversion by the liver of D3 to calcifediol. It might take a while to obtain calcifediol. A bottle of 60 5000 IU capsules of D3 costs about $6. Taking large doses of D3 would mean a race between the conversion by the liver and the worsening of the disease.
53 posted on 08/20/2021 2:26:36 PM PDT by Ragnar54 (Obama replaced Osama as America's worst enemy and Al Qaeda's financier)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LTC.Ret

Is the Hospital in Dallas or Austin?

I pray for your team member.

The situation sounds awful and so unnecessary.

God be with you.

And thank you for your service.


54 posted on 08/20/2021 2:35:54 PM PDT by David Chase
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Salvation

Yes


55 posted on 08/20/2021 2:39:42 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 52 | View Replies]

To: LTC.Ret

Prayers up.


56 posted on 08/20/2021 2:52:34 PM PDT by wjcsux (RIP Rush Limbaugh 12 Jan 1951- 17 Feb 2021. We really miss you. 😢)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LTC.Ret

Prayers


57 posted on 08/20/2021 2:56:12 PM PDT by Sdrawkcab
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: UnwashedPeasant

I experimented with that same exact doze and it didn’t have a single negative reaction. I looked up the LD50 on mice and it was 224 mg per kg of weight! Probably would have to take cases of the stuff to get in trouble.


58 posted on 08/20/2021 3:03:19 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies]

To: David Chase

Wichita Falls. Sadly, the hospital in Nocona starts treating patients right away with ivermectin, high dose vitamins, and a variety of other harmless things as soon as they are diagnosed -— but she is too sick to transfer to Nocona now.


59 posted on 08/20/2021 4:00:18 PM PDT by LTC.Ret
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 54 | View Replies]

To: LTC.Ret



60 posted on 08/20/2021 6:16:45 PM PDT by BlessedBeGod (~~To restore all things in Christ~~Appeasing evil is cowardice~~)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-72 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson