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Dammit I'm so sick of this!

One of our long term care units is infected AGAIN. Mostly unvaccinated or not fully vaxxed/boosted patients. We've had 4 patients and 3 staff test positive since Friday.

Just. So. Freaking. Done.

I'm sorry. This must be so stressful for you. Please take care of Yourself!!! Hugs.

I’m sorry.

Hang in there .
Our numbers peaked and are dropping already. I worked Covid calls last Sunday, it was freaking busy.

But good news, this rou d is less virulent than the last round. The only people that have gotten really sick are those that haven't been vaxd or boosted. Everyone else its honestly not much more than a head cold.

Whe its still Covid its no big deal for the majority of people. In fact many people say something like "this isn't so bad" "I'm surprised I haven't felt worse".
These are definitely positive things compared to early 2020 when people were freaking sick!
One thing with this version is that most folks seem to get diarrhea for at least 24-48 hours. So given your situation that impacts care for sure...

I will never understand how some people are still capable of playing Russian roulette with their health. I get that some people, very few, legitimately cannot get vaccinated, but the conspiracy theory wing nuts. Blehggg. I even understood when it hadn't been approved by the FDA yet, but that is no longer the case.
Sorry you have to deal with this. I don't think I'd have the patience dealing with what you do. And my mouth usually follows right behind my thoughts without a filter. Bless you and all the medical folks out there keeping this country together right now.

I got Covid this week- had a business trip to Las Vegas. I have had two boosters and have no other conditions. Everyone at our event was vaccinated, but of course Vegas is full of all sorts.

One day feeling like utter crap - a little scary that day, then 2 days of feeling like a really bad cold, and now feels like a mild cold.

It has not been fun, and I am angry that people don’t take it seriously. Also ticked that I am quarantined through the holiday weekend (but yes, I will stay quarantined per the guidelines).

We’re not out of the woods yet.

Hope everyone at your LTC unit recovers fully, HFSSC.

I am weary from covid anxiety. So sorry it's making the rounds at your facility again, and I hope you aren't slammed with staff shortages from this outbreak.

Just a new variant symptom heads up: One of the doctors I follow on twitter got reinfected with the new variant making the rounds in the UK. This one presented in her son and her as severe neck pain and body aches with low grade fever. Multiple early negative tests followed by positive a week into symptoms. There were no respiratory symptoms at all! This variant presents like viral meningitis that lasts two weeks and for her and her family was much more unpleasant and painful than the Omicron variant.

I have been letting my guard down because everyone aroud me is, but I'm not feeling lucky looking forward and am thinking I need to reboot my protocols if I want to remain uninfected. Hope everyone stays safe out there.

I just wanted to send ((virtual hugs))
And tell you how much I appreciate health care workers! Every single one of you!!

Wish we were doing SI meetups and I could buy each one of you dinner and tell you thank you in person. For now virtual will have to do.

Sorry this is happening.

I second the hugs for health care workers. One has to know that so many of them probably have trauma due to witnessing so many Covid deaths. And they have to be tired and definitely deserve a huge vacation!

The Covid numbers are rising again in my area but as Tush says, with the vaccine, not so many are dying. Just sick. I feel very fortunate that I haven't had it. I am beginning to wonder if I have some type of weird immune system thing going on. As a child, our Mom was afraid of vaccines so we were not vaccinated. I shared a bedroom with my sister and she had ALL the childhood diseases including mumps, chicken pox and measles and I never caught ANY of them from her or anyone else.

Later in life my Mom would talk about it and she couldn't believe she was so afraid of vaccines and felt so guilty she had put us at risk. She passed in July '19 right before Covid but she would have had me take her for the vaccines for sure.

To add to my last post, my blood type is AB Negative. I had an old-fashioned doctor as a kid (the one that convinced my Mom not to vaccinate us!) ... and he always said my blood type would give me a lot of immunity. I have never researched it.

Jeannie you need to be in a study.
If you leave near a major Hospital/Medical school system that does research you should look into it. Seriously.

Tush, I really have thought about doing that. I was exposed to Covid three times and of course it worried me since I'd had the cancer surgery. But no Covid. Something else you will probably find weird is that sometimes meds work opposite on me. Like something to make me sleep keeps me wide awake. Quite a long time ago I had a cyst that ruptured on my ovary so I was sent to the hospital for surgery. Back during that time when one really went IN to the hospital and not out-patient surgeries. I had been in a lot of pain and they gave me something for the pain and told me when I woke up I would be in recovery. Well no, I was in the holding room prior to surgery and every other person around me -- three or four - were all sound asleep. I heard them talking about an operating room being flooded (it was a time of heavy rains.) There was a nurse in that room and she was doing paperwork and I said ..."have they got all the water up off the floor because I don't think they can do surgery in a flooded room." And she jumped out of her skin and said she was never accustomed to people being awake in that room.

And OMG, flu shots. I cannot take them. In law school we had a professor who said IF we didn't take the flu shot and then got sick, he would not allow us to make up class time or assignments. So I took the flu shot for the first time. Down totally THREE weeks with the Flu. I thought I was going to die. Then before the Covid hit, I took a pneumonia shot and decided to try the flu shot. We know how that ended. I was in the hospital after a week of the flu then had pneumonia. But lucky I did because that is when the lung cancer was found, which saved my life.

In my life time I've only met two other people who are AB Negative. One was my first supervisor at a mid-sized law firm and he was a raging alcoholic. Or maybe he just thought he was.

Thank you all for the kind words and thoughts. We now have only one patient in COVID unit and nobody got really sick. Dry cough was about the only symptom anyone exhibited.

Thankfully our staffing is getting manageable. We had a new DON (Director of Nursing) start in January and after a bumpy start, I really like her. She’s definitely a no bullshit manager and empowers our management team to be the same. For the e first time since early 2020 all of our management positions are filled.

Which is great because I’m going to be having foot surgery as soon as I can get it scheduled and am going to be out for at least 8 weeks. It’s very major surgery as foot surgeries go, and I am not planning on coming back OR working from home one minute before my surgeon says I have to.

Prayers for all in health care as we continue to navigate this mess and try to find a new normal.

HFSSC, my heart truly goes out to health care workers. You all have dealth with and seen so much tragedy. You have to be exhausted. I have a Hospice RN nurse in my neighborhood (she took care of my Mom on home hospice) and she will sometimes come over to check on me and she said the horror of seeing all the tragic deaths due to Covid has just about done her in. A lot of her patients are in nursing homes and rehabs. She said no one should have to suffer and die like she witnessed.

Thank you for all you do.