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StillLearning:
Cliff's thoughts are spot on. My wife and I had the virus last month. It was a bitch but we got medical help and survived it. Never were we tested. The statistics are skewed, in my opinion toward very conservative numbers. Please be aware and careful. I don't want to lose any of my Quad-head friends!

Cliff Ruggles:
Good news.  To date I don't know anyone who has had it. 

We suspect my brothers son-in-law may have had a bout with it, he's in his early 30's and in good health.  He came down with flu symptoms and trouble breathing.  He missed a week of work which is rare for him to miss any work at all or get sick.  He recovered but was never tested.

We're still at home and not going anyplace.  So far only 4 confirmed cases in my County and pretty sure all of them traveled here to work and lived in adjacent Counties.  No deaths from it reported here to date but the death toll in Ohio is climbing daily.

It woln't surprise me if the Governor takes further steps to keep folks from spreading it.......Cliff

WideTrack:
Just to add some "close to home", perspective:  I'm in the Detroit area and am a police officer.  My wife is a nurse and works at Henry Ford Hospital downtown.  She was able to work from home for a while for her job, but then got "redeployed" to the ICU, which is exclusively Covid patients.  We have an out-of-town nurse staying with us who is working at Detroit's Sinai Grace hospital, another "ground zero" hospital that is getting hammered.  She came home crying after her shift yesterday.  Here's what she said below.  She posted it on social media so there are no worries about it being "public" here. 

At my job today, being the first nice day of spring, the park was full of people jogging, shoulder to shoulder, huffing and puffing riding bikes...no masks...spewing their germy aerosol breath into the air.  They just don't get it.  Below text is from someone who is living at our house so between that and the info. I get from my wife, I can vouch for its veracity.  Be careful, wash your hands and mask-up if you're going to be out and about. 

We also just learned that one of our retired cops went from being "OK" yesterday to on a ventilator today.

WideTrack:
Aimee DeLine at Detroit Medical Center Sinai Grace Hosp. 
Last night at work was by far the worst night I have ever had as a Nurse. People...PLEASE (I'M BEGGING YOU) follow the quarantine instructions!!! Don't think of yourselves being "STUCK" at home. Instead think of it as being "SAFE" AT HOME!!! It may help change your attitude, to help you tolerate being home.

Last night in the ER, there were 6 patients that passed away, who won't be going back home to their love ones. Of those 6 patients, 3 of them were mine...2 of the 3, I had just gone into their rooms, took vitals, they were good, nothing about their vital signs gave me the impression that they were about to crash.

One patient had even thrown their shoe 👞at the closed glass door to get our attention. This person wanted to make sure the oxygen mask was on right & to let us know they had dropped the call light on the floor. I picked up the call light, gave it back & reassessed their vitals, they denied having any pain, were comfortable & just waiting for a bed assignment.

Less than 30 minutes later, the monitor started alarming, I along with another RN and the RRT (Respiratory Therapist) ran into the room...the doc arrived a few seconds later...this patient had coded & there was nothing we could do to bring this person back to life.

I'm still having a difficult time wrapping my head around the fact that my patient was TALKING to me and LESS THAN 30 minutes later this patient was DEAD!!!

As the doc was pronouncing the time of death, we had to quickly run into another room, because my co-worker's patient suddenly took a turn for the worse as well. Fortunately, we were able to stabilize that patient...but for how long?

As quickly as these patients are taking a turn for the worst, it's not giving us much time to save them. We are treating ALL PATIENTS (here in Detroit) as positive for the Coronavirus/COVID-19.

The ER is overcrowded with patients...last night I was in the ICU section of the ER with 2 other nurses. Each of us had anywhere from 6 - 9 patients at a time...with most of them on ventilators. As soon as one patient either got admitted & went upstairs or expired, EVS was in there cleaning and within 15 minutes a new patient would come rolling in, sicker than the patient before them.

Last night, nearly broke me...I struggled internally to compartmentalize the fact that I LOST 3 PATIENTS WITHIN THE FIRST 8 HOURS OF MY 12 HOUR SHIFT!!!

My heart aches 💔 for my patients and their families. More so, since no visitors are allowed, & their family members are calling to check up on them & were telling them how their treatments are going, their vital are stable, that their love ones are doing okay, & were just waiting for a bed assignment. Only to call them back a couple hours later (or less) and tell them that their family member has died. The worst part is not being able to give them a reason as to what happened, and why so quickly!

So...if you're still reading my long post...PLEASE TAKE THIS QUARANTINE SERIOUSLY!!! On the #frontlines I cannot stress enough how bad it has gotten & it's only gonna get worse before it gets better.

I work the next 2 nights in Detroit at DMC-Sinai Grace and I am struggling mentally to pull it together. I know I need to put my big girl panties on, pull 'em up & suck it up...however it's not as easy this time.

Pav8427:
First case close to us is 30 miles away. 'Closer' to home is my brother-in-law came down with it about 3 weeks ago. (His wife brought it back from Spain) They actually both got it. He spent 2+ weeks at home in  Hell. High fever,constant coughing, sleeping most of the time. Ended up going into ER. Pneumonia in all lobes of lungs. He went home yesterday. Was told 6-8 weeks of spikes of fever yet and HEAVY sweats at night. He is 54 and pretty decent health otherwise. He said from here on out its "one day battle" at a time.
Her in central Mn, most everybody is stickin at home, but there are those 'Citiots' that are driving from the Twin Cities up to their cabins 3 hours to get something done on the 'vacation'

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