I mentioned last week that I’ve been super sick for the last three weeks. I finally called my doctor this morning because my weekend was especially bad. The nurse told me they couldn’t see me and to just go to the ER get checked for pneumonia and COVID.
She also told me to expect to be admitted. So I packed a bag just in case, then called my dad who came and drove me to Upstate University Hospital. He wasn’t allowed in, so he dropped me at the door and left.
Since I was being checked as a possible COVID patient, they made me wait in the glassed-in pediatric waiting room by myself. Which wasn’t so bad, actually. Within five minutes they took me back and stuck me in an isolation room far away from the rest of the ER.
Not that I was getting a complex or anything, but from the way they kept me clear of everyone, I did start to feel like Typhoid Mary. more
…if you REALLY want an orange stethoscope, $7.99 + shipping from Dixie EMS gets you a nice Sprauge-Rappaport one without having to go to hell or jail for it, or jamming someone else’s ear wax in your ear, plus God knows who’s hairy chest or funky knee that’s been on (it makes a good reflex hammer too), plus sometimes they slip off your neck into the most God awful messes at the worst times…
http://www.dixieems.com/Dixie-SpragueRappaport-Type-Two-Tube-Stethoscope-Orange.asp?pid=368
If you really want a new stethoscope check this out.
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Darn, it might not be a good link. Look for Butterfly IQ. Hopefully there is a good video.
To repeat an earlier warning. Unless you’re sicker than shit with the Rona, don’t get checked. Your name goes on the “List”. They can send the borg chasers on your ass anytime.
I was sick in July. 18 days in a row with fever. 6 nights in the Cleveland Clinic. 2 mri’s, 2 cat scans, gallbladder test, lumbar puncture, over 50 blood tests, every antiviral and antibiotic known to man while there. Even had a disease specialist visit me. Left on day 7 no longer sick and no one having a clue what was wrong with me. Did I mention they forgot to test me for mono? Had every text book sign of it, and its part of the unwritten protocol. Well, two days after discharge saw my family dr, also with the clinic, and he was pissed that I was not tested…had all the symptoms etc. so he tested me. Yup, mono. So, now I have thousands of dollars in bills for tests and unneeded treatments.
Had I known, I would have stole the orange ones I saw there for you. I might as well get something useful out of the mess 😉
…I honestly don’t know when it happened, but hospitals are filled with cowards now.
We had diseases back in the day, too. Flus, tuberculosis, AIDS, hepatitis A-C, and a wide variety of things as close as the next time you got bled on, pissed on, or projectile vomited on.
But we didn’t hide from them, because the job was to DEAL with sick people. No one FORCED us to, so why the HELL would someone SO afraid of disease not go work in a nice, safe brothel somewhere instead where the ick is safely contained in your coworkers’ orifices, and quit pretending like you’re the Savior of Mankind, ’cause you’re NOT.
Cowards.
It’s the FLU, kids. No more, and no less. We survived it for as long as mankind has walked the Earth without tarping the hospital rooms and wearing full-face shields to stitch an owie, so what the HELL is wrong with you NOW that a bunch of politicians overrode your common sense AND practical training?
Cowards, cowards all.
How easy it was to destroy a nation.
It only needed a seasonal flu and a great big lie…
SNS
They should rename the Rona to the political time bomb. Or maybe the Libtards revenge. No matter, it’s a highly politicized illness meant to destroy the economy
ShakeNbake
OCTOBER 5, 2020 AT 11:38 PM
“…Had I known, I would have stole the orange ones I saw there for you. I might as well get something useful out of the mess 😉”
…like I said before, I wouldn’t recommend unnecessarily touching ANYTHING in a hospital room you literally don’t know where it’s been.
And if they’re afraid to be in the same ROOM as the patients, I wouldn’t be too sure about them properly CLEANING anything in there…
Brad
OCTOBER 5, 2020 AT 11:47 PM
“… No matter, it’s a highly politicized illness meant to destroy the economy”
…and our faith in our remaining institutions, too. Now we can’t trust ANY Federal law enforcement agency, most of the State ones, CERTAINLY not ANY Board of Health, the Governors are most DEFINITELY not our friends, and who the hell wants to go to a doctor or a hospital now if they’re just gonna stare at you through glass like a freak in a fishtank until someone dressed more appropriately to use a plate grinder than to administer a medical procedure gives you a completely unreliable but totally unappealable test that will cost everyone in your house their paycheck and their freedom for at LEAST two weeks?
…not ME…
I’ve just had my sixth covid test and now realize that I’m only as good as my previous test because having been in a ground zero setting the previous week I may well have a percolating infection that doesn’t show up yet.
We’re tested weekly but probably going to twice a week next week…
Personally I’m so sick to death of this Covid Crap, it makes you want to fling yourself off a building with the constant non-stop bullshit coverage from the fake news.
I hope this country never has to go through this again.
Dianny, we hope you feel better soon. 🕊️❤️🙏
It’s time to stock up on items, once the flu season hits, it will all be Covid. If you’re looking there are already scarce items.
SNS
OK, I’m going there. Truth be told, the Libtard Nazis and the deep state RINOs conspired with the broke as Fxck ChiComs to bring this disease here. A passive war on the US.
Crimes against Humanity. Long, but watch if you want to know what might be on the horizon for the criminals.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kr04gHbP5MQ
I’m more concerned now about things like viral meningitis caused by one (or more) of the enteroviruses. The vector is oral-fecal, which means you ingest food handled by infected hands or water supplies (as in rinsing water at the processing plant, etc). The virus takes up residence in your digestive tract for up to 30 days and spreads to your meninges (spinal cord, neck, brain case) from there. The enterovirus family causes polio, mumps, asceptic meningitis, foot and mouth disease, hemorrhagic conjunctivitis, myocarditis and more, even mild respiratory colds, especially in children. 10-20 million cases enterovirus in the U.S. every year.
With all the foreigners handling our food, this is quite disconcerting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterovirus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aseptic_meningitis
Based on what I’ve read, I also suspect many COVID patients have ingested that virus as well.
Before my surgery yesterday it was all COVID madness with masks and caution, made my husband wait in the car. Had the mask on until they put me under. Of course, you know, immediately after, they put me on oxygen and put a tube down my throat! When I came too, I had no mask and they wheeled me to the car without it. It’s all theater.
People have staph on their skin, and though they are asymptomatic, they are said to be ‘colonized.’ That includes almost everyone. (Not everyone has the same variants). While nostrils are often checked for presence, the nape of the neck is a common site for its presence. You know- the area over which stethoscopes are commonly draped. I have never understood that. The owners of the stethoscopes know that, or they should. And some people use fancy decorative ‘covers.’ Covers that aren’t sterilized between patients/uses, if ever.
I keep my scope in my pocket, thankyou, and I wipe it down between uses, having also washed my hands, and using gloves, if necessary.
It is also nice to warm the head of the scope before placing it.
Diane Reynolds
OCTOBER 6, 2020 AT 8:57 AM
…I’ve been guilty of the neck thing many, many times, but that’s because (other than my hospital time) I used one exclusively in a prehospital setting, frequently in turnouts, and sometimes with upside-down patients dangling from their seat belts as a bunch of guys systematically rip a vehicle apart around us, so staph considerations sometimes had to take a backseat to practicality when a literal backseat was involved. Mostly I was there with it for lung sounds and BPs in the days when you actually had to ausculate at the cuff instead of the way they have a machine do it now, and the neck behind the collar was probably better at the time then trying to set it on any surface in a jouncing vehicle or a blood-covered floor, and I generally wasn’t a fan of sticking things in my pockets with contaminated gloves on, especially if I was in full uniform instead of a jumpsuit, because I didn’t want someone else’s body fluids inside my pockets for the rest of my shift as that wouldn’t do me OR my next patients any good.
If you do the neck dangle thing, you’re just funking up the ends of it with your gloves and not the part that goes around the back of your neck, so it would be a relatively easy clean-up with alcohol in the Squad room after the patient is safely transferred, and not a pants change or thigh wash afterwards. Most Squad uniforms did not include “white coats” with pockets meant for that purpose, althogh we did have heavy, semi-waterproof and highly reflective coats that you’d never be able to find your stethoscope in the pocket of again if you put it in THAT cavern.
…also, it DID make a good reflex hammer for healthier patiets where there was time and reason to get that far into a secondary, because I can GUARANTEE that someone lost the REAL reflex hammer out of the trauma box long ago, so you gotta do what you gotta do because the hospital WON’T replace THAT.
…so, just saying, while the neck carry might not be optimal in a clinical setting for maximum staph protection, which IS a valid concern since MY surgeon gave ME one when he worked on my knee a few months ago, but it’s somewhat more situational in a prehospital setting where things can be messier, less controlled, and MUCH more fluid.
…and it also gives patients an irrational, but real, confidence boost to see it there, in that setting it’s rather symbolic that they have already entered into the medical care system and are already under the care of a trained professional thereof, so it can have a bit of a calming effect on prehospital patients both young and old, so there’s that…
…plus which, chicks dig it, especially in full uniform with badge and all, but that’s NOT really a MEDICAL thing )though it CAN be, eh, “biological”), and so a different subject for another day…