Having seen it all in real time..

It's a Nightmare.

As I was explaining, being a Nurse is not only physically demanding at times, but can play hell with your emotions and psyche. We are exposed to so much suffering in the world. It is harder, knowing that somehow our colleagues contributed to it. We have all known Dr. Butcher, Dr. Headstone and Dr. Hatchet. What do they call the guy who finished last in Medical School? Doctor™️

One case in particular, that broke my heart, was when I had a patient who had Multiple Sclerosis. We were seeing him, in his home, due to skin issues, as he was confined to a wheelchair. We see a good many chronic wounds in Homecare. Immobility causes many skin issues, as you might imagine. Mobility and blood flow are key. The more in motion, the healthy we are.

He had graduated from Va Tech, and worked here, in the Nashville area, as an accountant. His wife had recently been a victim of a meningitis outbreak, due to some tainted steroid injections. She died. Their son then committed suicide. Yeah, brutal. How do you bring sunshine, smiles, laughter and hope to someone who has been so beat down? It’s tough. We deal with stuff like this, daily. Life is not fair. We must count our blessings daily. The glass is always half full, never half empty. There go I, if it were not for the grace of God.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/01/24/511442863/victims-of-contaminated-steroids-still-hurting-my-lifes-upside-down

I worked a night shift once, where a Nurse went into a bathroom, strung up her own IV and took herself out with Propofol. It took them a while to figure out what happened. After she has supposedly left, on break, to go buy her unit some Sonic, down the street; I can remember security buzzing around the Hospital that night, looking for her, after she had not returned. Word had it, later, that she was having to care for a mother who had Alzheimer’s, when she was not helping others at work. Caring is hard F’n business. I have seen plenty of stories like this. The drama is real. The pain is real.

In my time, I have seen plenty of ‘routine’ surgeries gone bad. I have watched ER doctors struggle to place central lines. A Radiologist once told me ‘that 30% of us have skewed anatomy.’ In other words, there is textbook anatomy, and then there is reality, when shit ain’t where it is suppose to be. It makes for jabbing, multiple times, blindly sometimes. A patient becomes black and blue rather quickly. We do have numbing medicine and opioids. The later cause nausea and severe constipation. But of course, we have more pills for that as well. It goes on and on; blood, guts, screams, sirens, monitors, bells, alarms, radios, pagers, phones, etc. It is enough to make you crazy for sure.

I remind all of my patients today, ‘that they are down at the Hospital ‘practicing’ Medicine, and I just assume no one ‘practice’ anything on me. If you go the Hospital, they will kill you.’ Medical error ranks high for killing people each year in these United States. Do not be a victim. Stay healthy, at all cost. Study up on Rockefeller Medicine and stay out of the system.

Again, prevention is key. I can’t stress it enough. As smart as some of us all are down there, at the Hospital, some of us can be pretty stupid at times. Some of us barely passed boards, and are just happy to be working, and going along with the narrative, and hospital protocols.

So please always have an advocate at your bedside. Healthcare is like any other profession. You have good ones, and you have bad ones. Again, some barely passed Boards and are just happy to be there, not to mention the debt they have incurred to get there. Many will not ‘rock the boat’ and do what is right. Some were top of their class, with many of us wishing we’d chosen a different path in life, like Organic Farming. The hospital joke is we are all down there ‘living the dream.’

Many Hospitals these days are now owned and operated by Corporations. They are no longer run by Churches, nor Charities. They make money on you being ill, all the while under the corporate streamlined model supposedly bringing a better product at lower cost. Hahahaha. They make money on procedures, surgeries, and ICU stays, such as heart attacks or strokes. And we, as a Nation, rank like 68th in outcomes when compared to our Western peers. But much of that has to do with the train wrecks that Americans allow themselves to become in the first place. Thanks Cola and Processed food.

America is greedy, fat, slothful, etc. and well, their life expectancy is falling. What do you expect? America was once founded on the philosophies of Jesus and Aristotle. But now, we have Machine Gun Jayzuz, Mega Churches, Supersized Happy Meals, and well, death and destruction. So there you go. I am afraid of Americans.