Posted on 04/11/2020 4:48:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
Within three hours of me arriving at work, the Director of Housekeeping was already in tears, with all sorts of obscenities spewing from her mouth. The morning nursing supervisor had just demanded that she “find some place” for all of the bodies. She did not want the dead to be left in the rooms. “Where the f*** does she want me to put all these people? That’s Margret in one of those rooms. She was my friend. I’m not going to dump her body in the stinking basement — I’m not doing it. They can fire me. I don’t care.”
More than 15 residents had died within the last 48 hours at the 150-bed skilled nursing facility. Because of the rate at which the patients were dying, when I got to work there was nowhere to put me. All of the nurses and ancillary staff were already in place. I worked on call throughout the city and was a last-minute addition to what had initially been an urgent staffing request. Now, I was being told to stay downstairs to organize paperwork, take temperatures, and distribute face masks to everyone coming in. I was thankful for the break, knowing that there would be less confusion in the lobby than on the medical units. I was wrong.
Family members, many of whom where not allowed past the lobby, kept streaming in and out. They were panicked, angry, and wanted to know what was going on. The mailman was refusing to have his temperature taken; food delivery persons who spoke little to no English didn’t understand what I needed them to do; pairs of first responders were sprinting in and out with gurneys and oxygen tanks.
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Thank-you PRC.
It’s becoming clear to me that a fair amount of deaths from the coronavirus are at convalescent homes. And that there’s a connection with the “skilled healthcare workers” at these facilities. Has anyone been to one of those places? I’m sure a fair amount of us have. Most if not all the patients are bed ridden and are of an exceedingly advanced age. Their immune systems are completely compromised and weak. If the workers are immigrants and may have traveled internationally recently then the poor patients don’t stand a chance.
The article is a bit deceiving. Starts out with the shocker, dead and dying, bodies piling up, no place to put them, to a well dressed man in a black suit and the life and times of a mortician ???????
I hate it when these people fall apart in a crisis. Control your silly emotions. Take care of business.
If you have too many bodies that haven’t been picked up, rent a refrigerated truck. There are solutions. Proper time should be given for relatives to say goodbye, and then the body should be removed from the room. After death, there is only left a shell of the person. The spirit lives on.
Pastor told me once it's important to know, before you get to summer camp, who the campers were, and who the counselors were.
It appears we're a nation of campers.
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