Posted on 08/06/2021 8:40:29 PM PDT by blueplum
A woman who says she began her career as an intensive care unit nurse months after the COVID-19 pandemic began is speaking out about the toll of learning the job while being inundated with severely sick patients as hospital beds now fill up again....
Kathryn Ivey, who reportedly works in a Nashville, Tenn., hospital, posted a powerful Twitter thread this week describing how her feelings of helplessness in earlier stages of the pandemic have transitioned to anger...
... Ivey’s reflections offer a glimpse into the grief being shouldered by health care workers on the front lines....
“Walking through the much smaller covid unit was like walking through a graveyard,” Ivey wrote.
But now, “it is so much worse, this time,” Ivey continued. “We all have so much less to give. We are still bearing the fresh and heavy grief of the last year and trying to find somewhere to put all this anger. But the patients don’t stop coming. And the anger doesn’t stop coming.”
Ivey described feeling defeated at the same time, like “Nothing we do makes a difference.”
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Where, where, where, WHERE is the outrage for not administering the miracle drug thats completely saFe....IVERMECTIN????
Search “show your hospital” Shes lying. They were practically empty
How do we even know for sure they ARE being admitted? It might be a lie.
So she’s angry. Angry at whom?
Dr. Fauci for helping China create this pandemic? Nope. Angry at Biden for spreading it all over the country with his southern border jumpers? Nope. Angry at Kamila and Pedo Joe for saying the vaccine is crap if developed under Trump? Nope.
I bet a thousand bucks she’s angry with Trump.
https://www.tn.gov/health/cedep/ncov/data/hospitalization-data/current-covid-hospitalizations.html
unless I’m reading the charts wrong, TN is reporting 4 adults in ICU on average per hospital with half on lifesupport, 8 juveniles in ICU statewide, w/6 on lifesupport out of about 27 juveniles and over 1400 adults total hospitalized. Current 8/6
the quacks are winning
Good post.
I am sure you are correct.
In the “war” against COVID, there is frustration, fatigue, anger, projection and resignation among many of the “soldiers” who have been at the front too long. People do burn out, rage and often get depressed.
Tried to get Ivermectin from my doctor today and he said the hospital won’t allow him to give it.
That sh*t is why I don’t want to be treated in an urban hospital.
The person truly responsible for this mess is on the other side of the world and looks a little like Winnie the Pooh.
but seriously, battle fatigue and crisis burnout is real. Ask any caregiver of an elderly person. The gal in this story is a new RN - that the hospitals are throwing sink or swim into ICU.
One gal in our nursing class dropped the day after she lost a patient first year. Couldn't handle death - nothing like her dream of being a small town school nurse to little kiddies. Death in waves with machines barking, that can get a little overwhelming and harder to box up even for senior nurses. Crisis fatigue affects judgement and performance and reduces immunity. Whether her story is real or a composite is up for discussion sure, but the emotions she describes are very real and have been felt by others. My two cents anyway
These “Tragic tales from the ICU.” are starting to have an eerie sameness about them. I wonder why.
Looking at the website you linked, I saw for yesterday (8/6) 27 pediatric (0-17 years of age) Covid positive cases in the entire state of Tennessee (113 different facilities reporting) and 10 were in ICU with 7 on ventilators.
That is one pediatric Covid positive ICU patient in one out of every 13 facilities (I assume reporting facilities DO have pediatric ICU beds) that could be filled.
I could be wrong, and nobody wants to see any kids in a hospital bed, but that doesn’t seem like an enormous amount to me, though it is far more than usual.
If only safe, effective EARLY treatments had been available, to all.
Many of these (perhaps made up) patients wouldn’t even be in the hospital, to begin with.
This story has Big Pharma written all over it.
Thanks for sharing your personal accounts. I have nurse friends who would agree, under actual circumstances.
For treatment, or prophylactic?
People die all the time in ICU’s.
And not just from Covid.
She will need to find a way to let it go
or find a different type of work.
Let one of the armchair experts here take just one shift in a covid ICU. They wouldn’t last one hour let alone 12.
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