Coronavirus: Woman expected to die opens eyes after family pulls the plug

WSBTV ^ | 12/20/2020 | Brianna Chambers

[BenLurkin]

Doctors told Nichole Brewer that her mother, Rhonda Withem, would not be able to breathe again on her own after suffering complications from the coronavirus, KTHV reported.

Withem, who tested positive for the virus on Nov. 7, initially quarantined while she monitored her symptoms. As they continued to worsen, she was eventually admitted to the intensive care unit at Saline Memorial Hospital.

For two weeks, she remained in the ICU on a ventilator. Doctors told Brewer her mother had been unresponsive during attempts to remove her from the ventilator.

“The doctors said it would just be hours once they took everything off,” Brewer told the news station.

But before long, Withem opened her eyes and looked around the room. Brewer said she even attempted to smile and wave at her daughters.

Withem is undergoing rehabilitation through next week to regain her strength, and her daughter has a message for those who might be going through a similar situation: “Don’t give up on your faith or your hope.”

[Slyfox]

AMA admitted they were wrong about HCQ, something that is safer than aspirin and can be safely given to pregnant women.

[Zhang Fei]

[The best thing as for any virus — prevention. And the vaccine does that. I dont think it should be forced, but it is a viable and good prevention to accelerate herd immunity.]

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Do you know if this vaccine is effective against what is said to be a new British mutation that has gotten the media all worked up?

[minnesota_bound]

The kids are disappointed they get no money from the will.

[so_real]

This might interest you : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq8SXOBy-4w. Ivermectin "basically obliterates transmission of this virus". Stunning. While the good doctors with boots on the ground trying to save lives advocate for ivermectin, the bureaucratic medical "leadership" looks the other way.

The EVMS school trains the next generation of clinicians and consults for current clinicians, and they have the prophylaxis and mildly symptomatic protocols for Covid-19 dialed-in exceptionally well in my opinion using non-prescription supplements (with the exception of ivermectin) : https://www.evms.edu/covid-19/covid_care_for_clinicians/

I agree totally that the best thing for any virus is prevention. And prophylaxis is prevention whether in the form of nutrition, supplementation, or vaccination. Shame that nutrition and supplementation don't get the same media spotlight that vaccination does. Greater shame that doctors are shamed or even threatened for broaching that territory.

[SgtHooper]

Ventilators are BAD!

[gas_dr]

I actively prescribed ivermectin. I had good (not great) results, but used it in hospital patients. Three weeks ago, I went to order it for a patient and I was blocked from doing so by the policy of the hospital chain. I was not permitted to order it and the pharmacy was not permitted to dispense it.

This is not my choice, however after taking it up the chain I was told it was a corporate decision. Now, tell me how I have failed miserably.

Also I have advocated vociferously on this forum that ivermectin is superior to HCQ. And I hear pushback, but ok

As part of the treatment of this disease, I advocate the gold standard — that prevention is superior to cure and vaccination is a key, and I get called among other things — a fraud, a sheep, not a doctor, probably an LPN, and one of the freepers just last night tried to dox me.

The point is that if you think medical professionals have to agree with you. it is pointless. Quercitin is weak HCQ is ok for prohylaxis, not treatment, ivermectin is not a sure fire cure for anything but it is better than none. We have been trying to confer basic knowledge, but called part of the problem because many are so sure that they are correct they do not bother to research the conditions of how we are required to practice and do not want to hear what they disagree with.

[House Atreides]

“...and one of the freepers just last night tried to dox me....”
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Good lord! I guess all groups have their share of the insane and low-IQers. Sadly, Free Republic is no exception... we have our share.

Keep up your postings. Many of us look forward to them.

[gas_dr]

It appears to be. But the evidence is indirect. The basic genetic make up for the vaccine is the spike protein which is remarkably stable. My opinion (because God forbid I make an opinion without 16 peer reviewed journals but I am qualified to have an expert opinion) is that this is likely a natural evolution of the disease from less deadly to more virulent in accordance with most laws of virology. I do not think it changes the basic biology I just think a wild type is selected that is less likely to die out due to host death.

[Secret Agent Man]

if she was given vitamin d and zinc she would have fared much better much sooner

[TiGuy22]

Just the opposite, I think people have been put at risk due to TDS!

[Flaming Conservative]

My pastor was prescribed antibiotics and steroids, and hospitalized 2 days (artificial heart valve), while his wife was only prescribed steroids. Both were sicker than dogs for 2 weeks, with weeks of recovery after that, with major weakness, and 25 and 35 pound weight loss, respectively. (Not overweight to begin with).
However, while Covid19 is real, the effects on most people are, from what we read and observe, usually mild, or asymptomatic. It is my belief that most tests are false positive; otherwise, most people getting it would be as sick as my pastor and his wife were. Members of their own family tested positive, with NO symptoms. I know people DO die from it, but as I read the other day, about the coroner who told of the death certificates of people dying, for example, from gunshot wounds, are being documented as Covid19 deaths. Our pastor’s granddaughter is a nurse at a small hospital, said she has been told by doctors there, that they are to document any admissions with any respiratory symptoms at all, with a diagnosis of Covid19. (And of course, not to tell a soul about that mandate).

[so_real]

I think you and I find each other in good company. From my last comment (while the good doctors with boots on the ground trying to save lives advocate for ivermectin, the bureaucratic medical "leadership" looks the other way), it sounds like you are on the boots-on-the-ground team and not the bureaucratic-medical-leadership team. I respect you for that.

Please don't take my statement regarding the healthcare professionals failing us miserably personally. I meant it generally, and in the future I will make an effort to state the "professional healthcare system has failed us miserably" to mark the distinction. I recognize there is a subset within the medical professional community whose hands are tied by "leadership", yourself included, as well as friends of mine. Others are all too willing to tow the bureaucratic line, because it is just a job and a paycheck to them. That is where malfeasance rears its ugly head.

When you state that you are "called part of the problem because many are so sure that they are correct they do not bother to research the conditions of how we are required to practice", I think you really hit the nail on the head, and I empathize. It is not that you, personally, have set yourself to be part of the problem. It is that you are *required to practice* under certain conditions not driven by the best care for your patient that *make you a part* of the larger system that is a problem.

Until we solve that problem, you will always be subject to higher-ups controlling what you can prescribe, accepting blame from the intelligent patients, and a calculated percentage of them will fail to thrive accordingly. And that's just wrong.

Quercetin may not be quite as effective as hydroxychloroquine. And hydroxychloroquine might not be quite as effective as ivermectin. But I can and have pointed ill people to the Marik protocol as a means of working around doctors unwilling or unable to help, and everyone I am aware of thus far who has given it a shot has thrived. It's certainly better than the alternative decline toward that date with a ventilator.

The EVMS doctors have saved lives by having the courage to publish a protocol that allows intelligent people to navigate around the roadblocks in the system. I try to connect intelligent people with the protocols that may help them, and the feedback I've received from the success stories is far more rewarding than a paycheck. Thank you for your efforts to mitigate this illness!

[Zhang Fei]

[I do not think it changes the basic biology I just think a wild type is selected that is less likely to die out due to host death.]

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As always, thanks for the very informative posts.

[nevergore]

“I tried that :-) Getting 250mg of quercetin 2mg at-a-time from a glass of shiraz red was ... entertaining! Though I had to resort to supplements, I did give it a good effort :-)”

Geez.....that’s only 125 glasses of wine a day to get to the full quota....Harumph, hardly a good effort.....What a quitter...... :^)

[so_real]

Geez.....that’s only 125 glasses of wine a day to get to the full quota....Harumph, hardly a good effort.....What a quitter...... :^)

LOL :-)