@DrJenner I do not for the most part trust doctors. My dad had a rare heart issue back in 2011 with a surgery in April of that year. He came to my house for Thanksgiving that that year and right after I got a call from mom while I was at work saying that Dad was sick and needed to go to the doctor. She is handicapped and couldn't drive. I picked dad up and took him. the doctor confirmed it was just the "flu". On our way there, dad said something about him hoping it was not MRSA, but at the time I had no clue what that was. . . After confermeation from his Doc that is was just Flu, I took him home and tucked in bed. I ended up leaving him knowing that my Sis was going to show up at any time. He ended up having I think 4 strokes during that period because mom and Sis just thought he slept till the next day. They eneded up taking him to the hospital. . . days later after multiple stroke the hospital didn't know what the cause was and needed to transfer him. . . I feel very guilty because he knew of MRSA and I didn't. The drive over to the doctor was one sentence to me. . . After a few days at out local hospital, he needed to get transfered to Houston's Methodist, which is the place he had the original heart operation and where he picked up the MRSA infection. It was basically down hill from there until his passing on March 12, 2012.
I am so sorry to hear this and I completely understand. I actually got into medicine later in life because of almost dying when I had my son (from inept care and wanting to make a difference with
I can tell you a story of inept care that JUST happened to me (really my friend)…
One of my friends (I met through my daughter as she is also a volleyball mom) went to a small rural local hospital with Covid symptoms x 5 days on this last Sunday.
Her husband works at the prison here and they have had it spread like wildfire without doing anything about it (and largely covering it up)
At any rate, she’s 48. Very high risk. She used to use IV drugs. Had endocarditis from that, has a prosthetic heart valve and also hep C on immunosuppressants.
So when she gets there she only needs 2L o2. She’s calling me (of course I’m working) to ask what she should do. I told her to get the hell out of ther as they won’t be able to take care of her if she gets sick. The doctor there tells her she will die if she leaves to another hospital and they can manage her there.
She uses a CPAP machine at night. Not only does the hospital not have one, they won’t let her bring her own. We have been managing Covid patients on CPAP as a bridge before the last resort of intubation.
Monday night, her oxygen needs went up to 10L and her labs were looking worse. She was showing signs of liver failure and sepsis.
They were going to discharge her home the next day. So on Monday night at 11pm, she signed out AMA and my daughter and I drove her to a bigger center I used to work at. She laid in the back of the car with 2 face masks on, a face shield, my daughter and I both wore N95s and we drove with the windows down.
I had my dad's portable O2 concentrator. Her oxygen levels were anywhere from 79 when she was sitting up and talking to 89 when she laid flat on her belly and stopped talking. We had her on the max flow it would take- about 5L
When we got to the ER, they brought her straight back. Her O2 was 72% on the 4L by face mask when she was sitting up and talking. The triage nurse freaked out. I said shes sitting here talking in full sentences, but let's switch her over to the O2 tank on the wheelchair.
They admitted her that night. She’s on high flow O2 now, 60L 95% and on the ICU watch list.
Can’t believe those idiots wanted to send her home when she was obviously getting sicker!!
Also- they should’ve never kept her in the first place when she had a window to get out safely- when they KNEW they couldn’t treat her.
She is a 48 year old mom of 2.
My guess is that they saw an unvaccinated ex drug user (sober since 2001)- and didn’t give a crap.
I have a huge problem with that.
I’ve hesitated to share it here just because so many people have jumped on me about my ICU treatment and killing people on vents. For the record, she tried zinc and hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. I don’t want to get into it about vaccination and treatment. I’m simply sharing a story to tell you that I completely understand your feelings and in a lot of sense - feel the same way sometimes. Not all are bad. You have to find the ones you trust.
(edited for clarity)
