Posted on 10/14/2014 4:33:13 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
On Friday, Sept. 25, 2014, my uncle Thomas Eric Duncan went to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. He had a high fever and stomach pains. He told the nurse he had recently been in Liberia. But he was a man of color with no health insurance and no means to pay for treatment, so within hours he was released with some antibiotics and Tylenol.
Two days later, he returned to the hospital in an ambulance. Two days after that, he was finally diagnosed with Ebola. Eight days later, he died alone in a hospital room.
So, here’s the truth about my uncle and his battle with Ebola.
Thomas Eric Duncan was cautious. Among the most offensive errors in the media during my uncle’s illness are the accusations that he knew he was exposed to Ebola — that is just not true.
Thomas Eric Duncan was a victim of a broken system. The biggest unanswered question about my uncle’s death is why the hospital would send home a patient with a 103-degree fever and stomach pains who had recently been in Liberia.
Thomas Eric Duncan could have been saved. From his botched release from the emergency room to his delayed testing and delayed treatment and the denial of experimental drugs that have been available to every other case of Ebola treated in the U.S., the hospital invited death every step of the way.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
#1 fault lies with Duncan. He alone knew he carried the virus to the US.
But I also blame the fool that put the honor system in place at the airport, the E-POTUS for not cancelling flights, the CDC for being incompetent and complacent — assuring us on one hand they know how to control and contain the virus - and on the other hand reminding us that viruses are unpredictable because they mutate.
Idiots all.
So Duncan, coming from a place where ebola is common, should be believed when he did not think of ebola. But the hospital, in a country where ebola had NEVER been diagnosed before, has no excuse?
This nephew is a hideous person. If he wants to see what grace is, look to the sweet nurse who is busy being thankful and saying she is blessed to have such fine treatment.
" A total of 48 people who had contact with Duncan are being monitored for fever or other symptoms until Sunday, the end of the 21-day Ebola incubation period. None has become ill. Duncan’s fiancee, Louise Troh, is among them. Reached by telephone Monday, she said she was “feeling all right” but feared her connection to Duncan would stigmatize her. “I don't want people putting that on me, saying I have Ebola,” said Troh, who has lived in the U.S. for more than 15 years. She has been isolated from most of her relatives since Sept. 28. “I'm hurt; I don't have anyone to cry on,” she said."BTW...since Sunday, all my comments posted here @ FR are held for review...is that unusual?
Wow-I’m amazed that this family & their handlers would be quite so tone deaf as to release something like this now.
They need to have a press conference where they profusely, abjectly apologize to EVERYONE, all the way from Ms Pham & her family, to the hospital, the staff, the CDC and to the American public for footing the bill for Mr Duncan’s care, and for the fear and difficulties this case has caused.
After all that, they need to go into seclusion and not speak to any Jackson types until absolutely everything is over & there are no more possible cases from Duncan.
Any remaining sympathy I had for this family has been wiped out by the whiny, self-serving, completely unapologetic article-and by the multiple lies exposed. They seriously need to pray no one else is infected.
Duncan was released only after the doctors, who had no idea he was a potential Ebola carrier, ruled out any other cause if his symptoms.
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it is possible that Duncan left of his own accord..he was free to leave at any time..he was selfish and self serving..
maybe he didn’t like the way he was “treated” at the ER..
after all they must have put him through a battery of tests for a long period, trying to figure out just what was wrong with him all the while the lying jerk refused to come clean and tell them..
when they couldn’t identify his ailment as anything they knew to be life threatening they either just let him go of his own accord or said come back if you feel worse etc..
having ruled out anything of a viral nature they could recognize they didn’t think he was in danger..
NOR DID THEY KNOW EVERYONE AROUND HIM IN THE ER WAS IN DANGER..
The family would not know what was said or done behind closed doors..he wasn’t incapacitated to where he needed someone with him when he saw the doctor..
I wonder if a blood test was taken that first day..
anyhoo he only told them he had bad pain in his stomach..he never told them he could have Ebola..
and yet from what the so called “nephew” says Duncan was well acquainted with the symptoms of Ebola, early included..and did his best to avoid coming in contact with any Ebola victim in Liberia..
what is not explained is just why he made a trip to Liberia if he wasn’t from there living there all along..when the country was a hot spot for Ebola..
his lying history keeps changing...
By lying to the medical workers initially he sealed his own doom. Should have walked right in and announced he had ebola!!!
“I don’t want people putting that on me, saying I have Ebola,” said Troh,...”I’m hurt; I don’t have anyone to cry on,” she said.”
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Id lend you my violin but I don’t want Ebola on it...
I understand this young man’s frustration but 103 temp isn’t an automatic admission to a hospital bed, as a vet who’s ever been to sickcall would know. And it’s not about race unless he’s accusing the entire ER of being racist. Will he change his mind if the attending staff turns out to be Asian or Hispanic? Why is insurance being brought up? If Duncan was a UPS employee, and it was less than 30 days from the day he paid his premium before quitting, he should have had insurance in place anyway - lapsing but in place. Not to mention it’s an individual’s personal responsibility to carry insurance, especially when traveling, which is something one would expect of a ‘cautious’ man. And, as a foreign national, wouldn’t Duncan have some sort of national insurance from country of origin that would reciprocate costs? It’s not like the family is being billed.
BTW...since Sunday, all my comments posted here @ FR are held for review...is that unusual?
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cant be too careful about Ebola...
back in the nephews country of Liberia people dying of Ebola are lying out in the street..
whats a little 103 temperature ???
Naw, it just wanted to.
That made me laugh out loud.
“at some point he flew TO Liberia and then he CAME BACK”
You do realize that that is incorrect, right?
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Thanks for the ping!
I was repeating what someone else in a thread had said..
There seems to be some confusion..
However since writing that I read a comment from another source where someone said the NY Times mentioned Duncan suddenly left work in Liberia on Sept 4 about noon without telling his boss and never explained to his boss he would not be back..
He never went back to work after that..and nobody saw him after that or apparently knew he was leaving the country..
He supposedly arrived in Dallas about Sept 20..
When did he actually leave Liberia and what did he do for those 2 weeks ???
why did he not go to work as early as Sept 4 ???
You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!
What a POS you are Mr. Weeks. You lie.
Your uncle didn’t die alone in a hospital. He died surrounded by 70 caretakers and racked up a million dollar bill while they tried to save his life. And while doing that he potentially condemned on of his caretakers to death. It is testified your lying uncle transported ebola infected people to and from the hospital. You, your family, and your uncle are ungrateful leeches on society and I have no respect for any of you. I would have had sympathy because your lying uncle lied to you and your family but with you jumping in bed with Jackson and calling us all racists you’re nothing but a whore of the race pimps selling you on the street.
The nephew has some good points.
Since Duncan thought he had helped someone with malaria (which is extremely common in Africa), he would have no reason to think that he had been exposed to an extremely rare disease. Of course he would have answered “no” if asked if he had been exposed to Ebola, because he did not know.
The hospital was completely wrong not to admit him immediately with his symptoms and travel history. The protocol is to treat every such case as potential Ebola until ruled out (and there have been MANY such cases).
There is not any ZMapp to be had anywhere; making this stuff is not trivial. However, there are other drugs that might have helped. Why they gave him the Brincidofovir is puzzling, though. There is no reason to think that an antiviral drug developed to fight DNA viruses would work on an RNA virus.
I think the hospital may be in for a big lawsuit.
I'm seeing a lot of that in this thread. Very sad.
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