'I am furious with myself': Unvaccinated Covid patient describes the exhausting illness

[UpInArms]

(CNN)Sitting in her hospital room in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Aimee Matzen struggled to breathe as she described how exhausting it is to have Covid-19.

"The fact that I am here now, I am furious with myself," she told CNN between deep, deliberate breaths. "Because I was not vaccinated."

Matzen, 44, finds herself in the Covid-19 intensive care unit at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge. She is receiving oxygen treatments and hopes she stays well enough to avoid getting hooked up to a ventilator.

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Matzen told CNN she was not opposed to getting vaccinated -- she just hadn't gotten around to it. Every time she planned to get inoculated, "something would come up," she said.

"I have this feeling ... if I was vaccinated, I wouldn't be hospitalized," Matzen said.


https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/29/health/louisiana-covid-19-hotspot/index.html


Aimee Matzen, 44, is in the Covid-19 ICU at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge.

These peeps are just dumber than posts.

[roamer65]

1. No sympathy.

Send her home.

We are going to hear a lot of fake sob stories and outright lies from anti-vaxxers.

[Skittles]

2. I am furious with her too but I wish her well

and kudos to her for speaking out - this kind of publicity may work on those people who keep putting it off

[2naSalit]

19. +1

[Blue_true]

31. I agree. She may help some people that are not anti-vaccines, but

simply have not prioritized getting vaccinated. I wish her the best in her COVID19 battle.

[lapfog_1]

3. This is going to sound mean

but lets save the hospital beds, the extraordinary treatments, the tanks of oxygen... for people who ARE vaccinated... or for people who CANNOT be vaccinated through no fault of their own.

I have a friend in Columbia... her best friend was in the hospital with COVID... and almost died. Her family sold everything they owned, were selling cookies in the street (and trying not to get mixed up with the protests and police)... and I sent well over $1000 to buy her the oxygen and medicine she needed...

They have vaccine only for doctors and hospital workers and people over 65. The black market has vaccines for the wealthy... for a few thousand USD.

[Scrivener7]

6. And for the kids who end up in the hospital.

[roamer65]

15. Children below 12 first, then 12 to 18 and vaccinated adults, then very last unvaxxed adults.

The vaccinated adult cases will be miniscule in number.

[Skittles]

28. it IS mean

you don't want doctors behaving like republicans

[wnylib]

38. +1000.

[Hortensis]

44. +1000. It's also very callously authoritarian and anti-democratic, and

this is a very dangerous time to even inadvertently ally with those trying to destroy government of, by and for the people.

We need to think these angry, fear-driven impulses through. Our fascist wing's full of vicious conviction that we need authorities who'll smite the people who anger them.

[SoonerPride]

4. Play stupid games yadda yadda yadda

I have zero sympathy.

I’m
All
Out
Of
Fucks
To
Give.

[Scrivener7]

5. We're going to be hearing a lot of this in the weeks to come.

There's absolutely nothing we can do about it now.

I don't wish this on anyone, but they fucked around and they're finding out. We tried everything to make them not do that, but nothing could change their minds.

[XanaDUer2]

7. I wonder if she was having a hard time getting off work?

Matzen told CNN she was not opposed to getting vaccinated -- she just hadn't gotten around to it. Every time she planned to get inoculated, "something would come up," she said.

[LisaM]

11. Yes, I don't know her circumstances.

Caregiver, no car, in a rural area, couldn't get off work....I.have.more sympathy for her than for people who WON'T get it when they easily can.

[IcyPeas]

14. Most major drug stores and supermarkets were giving out vaccines

Even if she worked 2 jobs she could've found time.

Hers is a BS excuse.

[Pobeka]

17. "Something would come up", doesn't sound like a work conflict.

Sounds like living in a culture that made COVID seem like no big deal.

If you knew it was a big deal, the "something" that would come up would be to get vaccinated ASAP.

But I give her credit for attempting to be honest, and I hope her story motivates someone to go get the jab tomorrow.

[smirkymonkey]

9. I have a little more sympathy for someone like her who was not opposed to getting vaccinated

or publicly hostile to the idea. Sure, she procrastinated about actually getting the vaccine, and she is at fault for that, but at least she is admitting it and is deeply regretful. She wasn't one of those insane anti-vaxxers.

I wish her a full recovery and the best of luck. Hopefully she can influence others like her to hurry up and get their shots now.

[StarryNite]

10. I agree.

[Hortensis]

45. Agree. If she helps others decide to get vaccinated, it won't undo

her year plus of being a potential carrier of the virus, but it'll still be a good thing.

[BigmanPigman]

12. You "have the feeling"?????!!!!

You are dumber than a bag of rocks, lady. Look at how overweight she is too...high risk. "I didn't get around to it". What a moron. What happens if the hospital workers "don't get around" to giving her oxygen.

[greenjar_01]

13. When vaccines were cleared for our age/health group, we spent days on the various sites

trying to book appointments.

We ended up getting appointments within three days of availability. The kids received first shots within 48 hours of 12-18 announcement. To this woman, I say, first, I hope you recover, but second, what? What? In the middle of a deadly pandemic, you had better shit to do than take the 30 minutes to get a fucking shot? Seriously, what is going on with these people? What is in their heads?

[roamer65]

16. She's lying.

Most anti-vaxxers will lie in order to garner sympathy.

[UpInArms]

22. My adopted daughter

drove 4 hours to get her shot …

It was the closest and earliest that we could get for her …

and we were grateful

[helpisontheway]

35. Right...we drove 4 hours (another part of our state) to get our first shot..And we

would do it again. We planned to do the same thing for our second shot but by then we found one an hour away. That is why I don’t understand the people that don’t want to be vaccinated. We were willing to travel to a different state if we needed to..

[Jerry2144]

18. PErhaps I am just a

bleeding heart liberal. But I do care. Nobody should suffer or know pain. A good society should take care of all people, no matter how much it seems like people are prisoners of their own device. She is suffering and might not make it. She has people who love her and are worried deeply for her. They might even lose her. Shouldn't we, as a society, be better than this? Should we try to increase compassion, love, caring, empathy, sympathy, and all that is noble about the human condition in this world rather than stoop to the baser human instincts?

I'll admit, I am a very flawed person. But I am striving to be better and more tolerant of all other people, to be the anti-narcissist.

/end rant
Sorry folk - an atheist preaching Christianity to the masses. sort of ironic

[sheshe2]

27. Nice post, Jerry.

However please read what I just posted.


https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215678613#post20

I am sorry, yes she may well die and it won't be from the lack of this administration that is desperately trying to keep the Aimee's alive.

What about the caregivers the scientists, the doctors, nurses all begging people to get vaccinated. The care givers are dying for Aimee's stupidity. I am sorry. I have no compassion for those that willfully ignore the seriousness of the pandemic and refuse to protect themselves and others. The Aimees are literally killing people.

[Jerry2144]

30. And that is precisely

why I have sympathy for them. They may be too stupid to do what is right for them or for others. They most certainly put others at risk. But this level of stupidity deserves as much compassion as any other human ailment. We all need love, respect, and empathy. Maybe, just maybe, if we all dial our empathy up one notch, we can increase the amount of empathy in this world and make it a better place.

Love, not scorn.

We are all humans, in a world becoming more increasingly hostile (some percentage of that due to self-inflicted human stupidity). Can't we each just try to make it a little bit less hostile? just a little bit more healing and healthy?

[sheshe2]

33. No. Sorry.

And that is precisely

why I have sympathy for them. They may be too stupid to do what is right for them or for others. They most certainly put others at risk. But this level of stupidity deserves as much compassion as any other human ailment.

At risk? People are dying FFS! Unvacinated are spreading the virus and though vaccinated they can spread it to me and my 95 year old mother that I home care for. They are selfish, PERIOD.

I can't forgive them, the brainwashed or the politicians that enable them. Sorry this isn't a Kumbaya moment.

Yes, and how many deaths will it take 'til he knows
That too many people have died?

Yes, and how many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn't see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind

Yes, and how many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
And how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, and how many deaths will it take 'til he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind

[bedazzled]

39. I am with you

when you wish ill to others you turn into something I don't want to be. Hopefully lessons will be learned with the least amount of damage to others

[MaryMagdaline]

43. You're a better human being than I am.

I’m glad we have you here. I just can’t match your level of human kindness.

[sheshe2]

20. Unvaccinated Covid patient describes the exhausting illness

You are exhausted?

What about your care takers, doctors and nurses that are on their feet 18 hour shifts with, in the beginning had no protective gear because Jared sold it to the highest bidder. My family member had to wear a f**king yellow slicker, backwards for 18 hour shifts, a mask that was supposed to be used once was worn for days. The slicker was hot and cumbersome. Double masked, goggles, face shield, rain slicker and 18 hour shifts with three children at home and YOU are exhausted? @#$%^&*YTREW@#$%^&*IUYT%$#WERTYUIO you!

Aimee? Eff your tired, you and others like you have blood on your hands.

[SoCalDavidS]

21. Something Would Always Come Up? nt

[roamer65]

29. Dump rallies.

[RockRaven]

23. How many people who say "I was going to, but I was always too busy" are simply not willing to

admit that they bought the RWNJ/FUX/talk radio/GrOPer/MAGAt bullshit hook, line, and sinker and always have?

Because it's hard to admit that you were a fucking sucker, that you hurt yourself by being a dumb dupe, that all those other things you believe from the same sources which you use to craft your self-identity may also be bullshit...

It's a lot easier to say "oh, it's my fault for procrastinating, but I super super meant to do it eventually."

[Ilsa]

26. Yup, it's a matter of priorities.

If she really wanted to make it happen those other events would have been put on hold.

My best day in 2021 so far has been the day I got my first shot in late February. It was better than taking a dose of Klonopin.

[Doodley]

24. I hope she has a full recovery, but her fury should be directed at those who deliberately fed her

false information.

[moonscape]

25. Thete needs to be a relentless parade of folks who

aren’t vaccinated and are extremely ill, on all news outlets, those who didn’t believe before but are now converts.

[vercetti2021]

32. I pity my cousin

Who was vaccinated and her stupid coworker had it and willingly didn't get a vaccine or test. You lady? I wouldn't have given a shit if you died.

[Fullduplexxx]

36. "Something aiways came up" like a trump rally? An owning the libs party? Maybe a dont tread on my

Rights gathering? An I'm not gonna live in fear soiree?
FREEEEEEDUM
Everyone else is furious at you too

[MaryMagdaline]

41. Exactly!

[Fullduplexxx]

37. Something came up ? So what stopped you from wearing a mask?

[MaryMagdaline]

40. Not half as furious as I am

How many people have you infected along your merry science-denying way?

[HAB911]

42. thoughts and prayers