Always just thought of the number in hospitals as “when can we go back to normal” ,seeing this element of it is brutal

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1. I’ve read some of the nurse forums with descriptions of this stuff… it’s fucking brutal to read.

   How they can do that day after day after day and still go into work is beyond me.

2. I’d love to know what percentage of those hospitalised refused the offer of a vaccine.

3. I watched an episode of the BBC documentary Hospital a while back that followed the effects COVID was having on staff and patients.

   It was grim seeing people needing surgery getting bumped down to make way for yet another COVID patient for ICU. It was especially grim when the episode followed one patient when he was admitted. You saw his health decline from him being somewhat sick but still chatty to the cameras and his family to him eventually struggling to breath and being scared of going to ICU because he knew what it meant.

   You then saw the ICU staff throw everything medically at him but he just kept getting worse and worse.

   A nurse eventually had to make the dreaded call to the family that he was going to soon die, that they would have to say goodbye to his unconscious self over Skype. You could see it weighed on the nurse having to repeat this cycle over and over.

   Completely put into sobering perspective the stuff medical staff have to go through everyday.

4. Didn’t know they still use ventilators now. Thought that was all stopped.
   Anyway fuck tic toc.

5. Reminds me of this thread recently about a nurse’s experience of helping a covid patient from admittance to their death. I really wish there was a lot more Irish accounts and videos of nurses and doctors sharing their experiences here, and videos of actual patients going through it, because it might actually help make some people aware of what is actually going on in the hospitals throughout all of this

   https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/comments/rvl0qy/a_nurse_relates_how_traumatic_it_is_to_take_care/