Posted on 12/18/2020 12:35:11 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
An Oklahoma ICU nurse has been left homeless for the holidays after her house burned down while she was at work treating COVID-19 patients.
Tina Irwin was working a 12-hour shift at Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City when her neighbor called to tell her that her home was on fire, according to KOCO News 5.
Three of the single mother’s four children were at home when the fire started, the outlet reported.
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Glad everybody is ok.
Take the COVID angle out of this. It’s tragic that someone’s house burned down. The fact that she’s a nurse has no bearing on the tragedy. This is the narrative equivalent of filing hate crime charges for a murder. Murder is murder.
she should have gone into teaching, then she’d be home in her pjs and could have called the Fire dept early or put the fire out herself...
I’m not taking away from the situation. I think it’s a travesty that the media is playing the COVID card with everything. Someone’s house burning down doesn’t make the news under normal circumstances, but God dammit if we can spin COVID into it, it’s front page worthy!
God bless her. She lost her home while risking her life to help others. it she is blessed - kids and even pets all Ok. the house can be replaced
Really? It does around here! Might be because I don't live in the big city.
This was in the NY Post... about a woman in Oklahoma. Again... how is this relevant except to drive an agenda?
“God bless her. She lost her home while risking her life to help others.”
She is a Nurse. She was being paid. I doubt seriously she would be “risking her life” if she was not being paid.
There are many nurses who quit this year because they did not want to be exposed to covid. It takes courage to go to work knowing you are being exposed to a potentially fatal disease on a regular basis. Pay or no pay
Really? So all HCPs are putting their own lives at risk for going to work in the clinics? We knew the risks and yet we chose this profession.
Get a grip.
No - its called dedication.
And just like the school teachers who abandoned their students they have cast themselves accordingly.
I want dedication from my staff.
Treating COVID patients now = treating patients with serious morbidities like cancer and heart problems, a percentage of whom are under quarantine because they have also tested positive. It does not mean wards full of people with COVID alone.
Good thing she wasn’t at home then, right?
That’s so sad. I’m glad the kids got out okay.
wrong. There are wards full of people with active covid infection with their reason for hospitalization
No grip needed. Anyone working in a hospital these days is taking a risk. Whether you wish to acknowledge that or not
Would it be better if she was working as a Chemotherapy Nurse when her House burned down?
I assume she has Homeowners insurance.
I just don’t get why they would make what she does a part of the story or did they want to pin it on POTUS Trump.
It is sad when anybody’s House burns down.
Is a COVID nurse making sacrifices that a hospice care nurse wouldn’t be making? Is the number of COVID nurses greater than, say, oncology nurses? What about trauma nurses in the emergency room? Do COVID nurses have to work longer hours than the ones in the burn unit? Is COVID nursing a specialty that has extra training and more rigorous protocols than the ones working in the neonatal ICU?
My wife is getting ready for her weekend shifts at the Covid unit nearby. She has gotten to see her fair share of people die, as well as a good number of cases who have survived the ordeal. She talks about seeing patients “ oxygen hungry” desperately trying to draw a breath. She has watched them sitting alone, isolated, no visitors, become saddened depressed, despairing (many of her elderly pat patients ask her if they are going to die).
It takes her a good while to “don” all the protective gear they must wear they usually need help to provide safety checks. Before entering the hospital each shift, she quietly sits in her car in the parking lot asking the Lord to protect her (and, thus her family) from contracting the virus. She asks for grace to help her patients, to be able to support them emotionally, spiritually as well as physically. My wife gets paid fairly well for what she does, but don’t think for one minute that the average Covid nurse is all about the money. Nurses can opt out of serving in a Covid unit. The ones working there are, for the most part, the real nurses, the ones born to be nurses, not doing it for the money, but because they have been given special gifts of providing care and comfort, have recognized those gifts and use them in service to their fellow man.
My wife is my hero.
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