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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I didn't have a true understanding of how Covid19 can wreck your lungs for good and there is no cure until reading the Herman Cain posts.  So even if they live, many of these people are permanently disabled.

Patients loved ones describe their deterioration in great detail in those posts. They are just shocked at what us happening and had no idea how bad it can get. The sick are panicked and have to be sedated to tolerate what is being done to them. It is truly horrifying how quickly it can get out of control.

The obits and farewells and people rushing to bedsides to try to say good bye are heartbreaking.

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Me too! I see very few articles about the actual toll of being ventilated.

My nurse practitioner sil said something that was impactful. She said she only recently realized that the general public doesn't truly "get it" like those who work with Covid patients. She has talked to people who think going on a ventilator is no big deal. People truly don't understand what it's like to be on a ventilator, and what that means for long term recovery. IF you recover from a ventilator, you're not just sent home healthy.

You'll have physical rehab, weakness, decreased lung capacity.

There are real mental impacts that occur post ventilator. The medications have adverse affects on cognition. People are reporting PTSD symptoms.

The impact on hospital staff is severe. Each ventilated person requires a one to one nursing staff. A nurse who would normally have multiple patients during their shift is tied to one and only one patient. This has obvious ramifications on staffing and cost. 
As a nurse practitioner, my sil feels like anyone who refuses to get vaccinated is willfully ignorant or has no regard for the backbone of our healthcare system.

And it's true, people who aren't there just don't know. 
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I wish your SIL’s explanation would go viral.[/quote][/quote]

Me too! I see very few articles about the actual toll of being ventilated.[/quote]

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