Ross wants me to write, so I will.
This is real here, a belief widely held in healthcare: https://www.wibc.com/news/coronavirus/nurse-doctors-frustrated-with-how-many-covid-patients-are-unvaccinated/
A dear friend announced the passing of his father, saying that we should get vaccinated, because his father's death was 'totally preventable'.
At my work, they are pushing, and pushing to force everyone into obeying the mandate Governor Newsom made for California.
Yet at the same time, articles like this, are published and then censored off the internet!
Here is something I'd like both sides of the issue to read:
The first is from the head of UC Davis Healthcare, and the second is a comment:
But this time the challenge of healthcare workers seems different. A shift in public sentiment toward the pandemic is quite literally, putting the mental and physical well-being of our dedicated men and women on the line every time they walk in the door to work.
We’re helping as much as we can and we need the help of our community.
1. We require masks at all Davis Health System facilities to keep our staff and patients safe. Cussing and threatening our security staff, registration staff and nurses will not change our position on wearing masks while here. You will find this same requirement at all hospitals, doctor’s offices, or clinic settings. If you are not going to wear a mask, you have the right to seek care elsewhere.
2. We will never run out of compassion, but we are overrun and working as efficiently as we can. In the past two weeks, we have doubled our volume in the ED and in our urgent care facilities, but have been unable to double our staff due to a national nursing shortage. It will take longer to be seen, sometimes much longer. Your patience is needed as we care for each person in line ahead of you.
3. COVID has changed the rules on how care is delivered. We base our processes (drive-through care, telemedicine) on the best science to protect you. We understand this is frustrating and difficult, we wish it were different too. Swearing, chastising, and throwing vomit at us does not make the situation easier for anyone. We are providing the best care possible, please don’t make our job harder.
4. We too suffer COVID fatigue. We are caring for more COVID now than when we surged in early 2021. We see very, very sick people and unfortunately, we see death. It is painful when people call you a liar on Facebook or in Walmart.
5. We are here for every patient. Mandated by our professionalism, we focus on the disease, illness, or injury in front of us. We show no bias based on any personal affiliation. We ask that you return this courtesy to our providers, nurses, security personnel, and all others who work here.
Healthcare workers are caring for you and your families in circumstances that, honestly, none of us have ever dealt with. Please treat our healthcare workers the way you want them to treat you. I believe that if we work together, we can overcome this new challenge. We’re here for you, always.
Thank you.
Dr. Chua
Mother, Daughter, Wife, Friend, Community Member
Chief Medical Officer
Davis Health System
EC
Our exhausted healthcare workers should stop treating anti-vaxxers — leave them out in the hospital parking lot to be saved by their YouTube “doctors” instead.
What do you think of it? Myself, I was struck by the number two, with the national nursing shortage.
The other is that tempers are running short, people are starting to reach the end of their coping skill level, and are resorting to acting like toddlers who didn't get their way.
No matter what side you are on, cussing, chastising, throwing vomit, spitting, denying care are all signs of a lack of love. People are at the end of their rope.
And it is with this focus we will leave you to reflect on what is going on in our midst.
NOTHING is going to make this go away any faster. NOTHING. Look at the infection rate in Israel.
All of this is part of a large, very well thought-out plan, which people can't even begin to grasp. Not just because of the scale of it, and how it is hidden in plain sight for hundreds upon hundreds of years...but because there is a spiritual component to it.
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Ross wants me to share something with you. It's not that we are turtles and we can hide. It's that it's never too late to change.
My beloved turtle Rafaella, who I got in medical school, has very long toenails and some of them are falling off with her toes. It breaks my heart to see it. I've taken her to a herpetologist, and he didn't even say to trim them.
A ten-minute online search helped me to see the error of my ways. By feeding her her favorite--bananas, with rare snails and grubs and meat--with floaty sticks, I've not let her get enough calcium. And without sunlight, she has no vitamin d. This causes a problem where the turtle takes calcium out of its bones.
So today, I printed off the articles on turtle diet -- fifty percent protein, thirty percent vegetable, and twenty percent fruit. They say to mash and chop everything together so they can't avoid things they don't like that are good for them. The author took two years to train his turtle to eat a good diet.
I remembered on the list, fresh figs have a better calcium to phosphorus ratio. So right now, behind me, she is eating fresh fig and very happy.
I fed her what my mom fed our turtles in the past, and what she likes. I didn't know. But now I do, and hopefully, with a good diet things will turn around for her.
And yes, we do trim nails and beaks on turtles--it's part of the animal husbandry. But it's best to have a veterinarian do the beak.
With my bunny, she had another round of poopy butt. It looked so painful two days ago. But today when i checked, my treatment worked beautifully and I was able to trim long hairs off her tummy. I soaked her in povidone-iodine spiked warm water for a sitz bath. Then I put a fifty fifty mixture of silvadene and honey on her tummy. I ordered more silvadene from the vet, and saved a trip (and the expense!).
We are natural healers. Our intuition guides us.
My close friend and colleague Stephanie did this beautifully with her son, who is on the mend from the big C-V.
Here is something else that helped her. You might be interested in it too: https://thesilverplatinumflame.wordpress.com/2021/08/25/my-journal-august-25-2021-merlin-the-shield-and-the-jab/
Ross says that is enough. Tomorrow is the first day I go to work and get tested.
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Aloha and Mahalos,
Namaste,
Peace,
Ross and Carla
The Couple
