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JCMach1

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33. Even ER are old hats at this now

Reply to Hugin (Reply #32)

Sat Nov 28, 2020, 12:09 PM

Nov 2020

Like clockwork they stabilized my oxygen. Got me the right meds, x-rays and then kicked me upstairs.

They did a good job as well.

I hate that they are overwhelmed.

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There are 2.6 million people in Dallas County. On Wednesday, there were 26 ICU beds left [View all] Horse with no Name Nov 2020 OP

Nurse friend told me they are sending Covid patients from the hospital JCMach1 Nov 2020 #1

Sending them home? roamer65 Nov 2020 #3

No room JCMach1 Nov 2020 #12

Here we go. roamer65 Nov 2020 #14

sending them where? n/t orleans Nov 2020 #4

The words my friend used was home to die... She can be pretty blunt JCMach1 Nov 2020 #15

That's means they are triaging like Italy earlier this year. roamer65 Nov 2020 #16

I don't think so yet... Shifting them to other hospitals in the hospital district JCMach1 Nov 2020 #27

As someone who was once "sent home" (to die)... Hugin Nov 2020 #30

As bad as being in a Covid ward is, it saved my life in September JCMach1 Nov 2020 #31

The people who work in those wards are so courageous it is beyond words. Hugin Nov 2020 #32

Even ER are old hats at this now JCMach1 Nov 2020 #33

My uncle, near death with COVID on Wednesday Ms. Toad Nov 2020 #7

I have been telling people here in rural MI there will be no going to large city hospitals. roamer65 Nov 2020 #17

Lubbock is a medical hub, too. Hugin Nov 2020 #28

OMFG SunSeeker Nov 2020 #2

maybe they'll be flown to other counties with the mask exemptions due to low case counts orleans Nov 2020 #5

I've been keeping tabs on the rural county where I grew up. tanyev Nov 2020 #21

I am an RN in Dallas. It is grim Horse with no Name Nov 2020 #22

At least we don't have Hillary as president. roamer65 Nov 2020 #6

Do you know she had a email sever in her BASEMENT!!!! OMG!!!! winstars Nov 2020 #8

OMG. The EMAILS! roamer65 Nov 2020 #9

Thats right, she sent...emails from her basement and.... BENGAZI was something too, I think winstars Nov 2020 #11

A 400lb guy running the server in her basement? roamer65 Nov 2020 #13

You all realize at a certain point this may become like the Titanic. roamer65 Nov 2020 #10

.. roamer65 Nov 2020 #18

100% truth. Horse with no Name Nov 2020 #23

When you have a singular combination of meanness, incompetence and corruption as we do DFW Nov 2020 #19

Too bad the hospitals can't turn away all those PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2020 #20

Honestly Horse with no Name Nov 2020 #24

I feel the same way. shrike3 Nov 2020 #26

+1, it's not even the beds its the resources and staff that are even more short handed uponit7771 Nov 2020 #25

Exactly, I don't see a virologist in September in hospital, I probably don't make it JCMach1 Nov 2020 #29