Altered Behaviors - Life after COVID-19
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They're beginning to see a spike in STEMIs, heart attacks for the non-nurse husbandry around here, that normally occurs in spring. But this time they think there could be a correlation to the Coronavirus. About once every 3 months, my wife ends up straddling a dying person administering CPR and it's not uncommon for her to get splattered in blood and the like. That scenario is almost certainly going to play out with an infected patient and right now, that could happen every other day with her current call schedule.
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Jesse,just a Thank You to your wife and all her peers . God Bless em.
Sgt Fury
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So is this the real reason you idiots flood to the woods at such hours of the morning?
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Jesse. No sense in avoiding intimacy. Unfortunately COVID is so contageous that by the time one displays symptoms the other already has it. I feel for you brother. It sucks.
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This is so true.... Living together in the same house, if one has it the other one is f---ed... So might as well enjoy yourself... Jesse, God bless your wife for doing what she does and may he protect her...
Go lay pipe, Jesse. If you’re gonna get it you’re gonna get. Might as well get it having fun.
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This. I personally know a CRNA,his wife also a CRNA and two teen children that all 4 have it... inevitable for healthcare workers imo. I wear a mask for my entire shift and do not feel safe... so much laziness even inside healthcare. I want to slap the shit out of so many people who can’t even wear a damn mask properly...
Dude. You need to talk to my wife
Charge nurse is a cath lab and works with people who couldn't spell PPE, let alone get it to fit properly. They didn't even have N95s in the lab until this week. WTF?!?
My 2 cents...
I've bought a few over the years. Here's a pic of some but not all. The ones I think are most important are on food preservation (fermentation, curing, smoking, canning). The sausage making books have a good info on how to cure and preserve meat, not just on how to make sausage. The Armed Forces Survival Guide has good info.
I'm not going to be able to feed myself and my family with a spring pole snare, so the primitive / native american books for me were Interesting but not practical. Living off the land, Edible Wild Plants, SAS Tracking Guide were kindof in the same category. They were fun to read but for me didn't rank up in the top except for the parts that dealt with water purification and first aid.
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Joe brings up a great point about food and editable plants. First aid could also save you. I’ve always red that it’s a simple cut that’ll get infected and kill you.
Found a couple more on another shelf - these are good ones to have. Can't recall if the FM 21-76 is the same as the survival guide in my last post but I'd get this one over that one. it's a hard cover and seems put together better;
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My fiancée is a ICU nurse and we still get down and dirty. When she first got her job at the hospital I used to get sick a lot and I would always blame her so we came up with a routine to keep the germs away from our home. She takes the necessary precautions when she is at work and when she gets home. She changes clothes after work before getting into her car and put her work clothes and shoes in a plastic tote the plastic totes get cleaned and sanitized after moving her clothes into a new and designated “laundry basket” basically a larger tote for all of her scrubs until one of us washes them and cleans and sanitizes the basket. Her shoes stay in a plastic tote in her Jeep and she keeps a pair of sandals. We were luckily enough to have plenty of sanitizing products just from my cleaning ocd and haven’t needed to buy any in months.
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Should have mentioned that the extra precautions like changing her scrubs before getting into her car began when this COVID outbreak began. However she’s always taken precautions to keep us safe from anything she may unintentionally bring home.
Maybe this will help crash the cost of new vehicles. It is way out of hand and has been. Now they’re deemed nonessential...that market really needed adjusted.
Hated to lose this convo in the Smithfield thread, but if this situation is not causing you to rethink how you approach your health and personal wellbeing, you're doing yourself a further injustice. The early leader in conditions that make COVID-19 worse is obesity. Shockingly, a report released by NYU points to obesity as being the #1 common condition amongst the dead. When it all shakes out, you'll see even more talk about the levels of inflammation in your body and how your body handles cytokines. @Schu72 mentioned this in the COVID-19 thread and it's worth learning about.
My commitment to my health has been on again, off again for 2 decades. My current baseline is better than when I was at my worst, so I'll be taking this moment as another lesson that I can do better. One way I intend to do that is with the pellet grill and the ability to make a lot of protien at once. We made an investment in some Tupperware to bolster our ability to store whole meals rather than just ingredients. Sundays will be a "bulk cook" day and that will be very helpful in eating better through the week when life returns to it's new, hectic "normal". I will be purchasing a bike from our local bike shop with my stimulus money. Running is just too hard on me at the moment, so I need a lower impact method for getting my heart rate up.
It shouldn't take a global pandemic to get us to take our health seriously, but we also shouldn't look past the lesson that's being presented at the moment.
My commitment to my health has been on again, off again for 2 decades. My current baseline is better than when I was at my worst, so I'll be taking this moment as another lesson that I can do better. One way I intend to do that is with the pellet grill and the ability to make a lot of protien at once. We made an investment in some Tupperware to bolster our ability to store whole meals rather than just ingredients. Sundays will be a "bulk cook" day and that will be very helpful in eating better through the week when life returns to it's new, hectic "normal". I will be purchasing a bike from our local bike shop with my stimulus money. Running is just too hard on me at the moment, so I need a lower impact method for getting my heart rate up.
It shouldn't take a global pandemic to get us to take our health seriously, but we also shouldn't look past the lesson that's being presented at the moment.
