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plonqI fell down a rabbit hole this morning of reading stories from RNs who have been dealing with this pandemic since the start. A lot of what they had to say was downright depressing. Many of them are looking to get out of the field.
They talked about how even if people survived their hospital trips, they often left with PDST, or so badly damaged that they would need years to recover -- if they ever fully do. Some survivors sent home with bipap machines are slowly wasting away because they're terrified to remove the masks for long enough to eat.
A couple weighed in that one benefit of the Delta variant is that people tended to die faster, so you didn't have as much time to get attached to them.
Others mentioned that one big difference in the past year is that early on, most of the people in the hospital were there because they got infected by careless family members. Now, it's almost all self-inflicted.
People - especially on the political right - are fond of posting those meme charts of survival rates. I'd like to see another chart of people who "survived", but will never be the same again.
Also...
We got some northern lights activity last night. I'm told they got much more interesting a couple of hours later, but it was already past my bedtime when I took this shot. Shortly after I snapped this, they faded to the point where you would not know there was a display at all unless you looked really hard - the kind that barely show up on a long exposure.
Also also...
I guess I need to stop putting it off and call the vet. Our cat has been sick this weekend. She seems to be feeling a bit better today - and she's eating again - but she's been losing a lot of weight anyway lately, and kind of on/off food lately; one day she'll clean her food dish, the next day she'll barely touch it. I'm hoping that it's just her thyroid acting up again, and that it can be treated with medication. I have a sinking feeling that her kidneys might be failing, though. Merry is not exceptionally old as cats go, but she's nearing the end of her warranty period. =(
They talked about how even if people survived their hospital trips, they often left with PDST, or so badly damaged that they would need years to recover -- if they ever fully do. Some survivors sent home with bipap machines are slowly wasting away because they're terrified to remove the masks for long enough to eat.
A couple weighed in that one benefit of the Delta variant is that people tended to die faster, so you didn't have as much time to get attached to them.
Others mentioned that one big difference in the past year is that early on, most of the people in the hospital were there because they got infected by careless family members. Now, it's almost all self-inflicted.
People - especially on the political right - are fond of posting those meme charts of survival rates. I'd like to see another chart of people who "survived", but will never be the same again.
Also...
We got some northern lights activity last night. I'm told they got much more interesting a couple of hours later, but it was already past my bedtime when I took this shot. Shortly after I snapped this, they faded to the point where you would not know there was a display at all unless you looked really hard - the kind that barely show up on a long exposure.
Also also...
I guess I need to stop putting it off and call the vet. Our cat has been sick this weekend. She seems to be feeling a bit better today - and she's eating again - but she's been losing a lot of weight anyway lately, and kind of on/off food lately; one day she'll clean her food dish, the next day she'll barely touch it. I'm hoping that it's just her thyroid acting up again, and that it can be treated with medication. I have a sinking feeling that her kidneys might be failing, though. Merry is not exceptionally old as cats go, but she's nearing the end of her warranty period. =(
