48 hours to live: An Oklahoma
hospital?s rush to find an
ICU bed for a covid patient
The covid patient in Room 107 was bleeding internally and near death.
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The namesake baby, Johnnie III, was born at Stillwater Medical Center on Sept. 6. The living room of the farmhouse is filled with photos of Novotny holding each infant grandchild. He had to be photoshopped into one with the new baby.
?You know, you never think somebody is going to die,? she said. ?I thought he would have at least 20 more years.?
She asked a neighbor who lost her husband three years ago if things ever get any better.
?I asked her, ?Does the loneliness ever go away?? ? she said. ?And she said, ?I?d love to tell you, yeah, it does, but no, it doesn?t.??
She has been beating herself up a lot lately. Maybe she should have taken him to a larger hospital in Oklahoma City or Tulsa in the first place, so that he would have had access to more specialists. Maybe she should have taken him to the hospital sooner.
Not on her list of regrets: her decision not to get vaccinated.
?I just have so many questions about the shot,? she said. ?I don?t know if I?m persuaded. I guess you want to say I don?t believe in it.?
On Aug. 14, the day Novotny was buried, Stillwater Medical Center?s ICU was full again. In the back of the nurse?s station, taped to one of the cupboards, was a child?s drawing of an orange tractor and a tiny hay bale. ?Get Well,? it says, with a heart. It?s signed by two of Novotny?s grandchildren. One of the staff had rescued it from Novotny?s room and hung it up, the only remnant of the patient they knew how to save but couldn?t.
fatduck said:I hear that about 700k people in the US acquired permanent, absolute immunity to COVID as a result of infection. Lucky...
CalBears96 said:fatduck said:I hear that about 700k people in the US acquired permanent, absolute immunity to COVID as a result of infection. Lucky...
Seriously, the stupidity to think that getting infected with COVID is the best way to AVOID getting infected with COVID.
https://youtu.be/BzFCnHc8KU0CalBears96 said:Well, Dennis Prager is a far-right idiot.
morekaos said:irvinehomeowner said:It?s ironic how much morekaos hates on Cali yet we are the 4th safest Covid state list? Texas is 39.
I would post a link but I want Mety to Google it.
?This week?like the weather, things will change. Besides I don?t care, I?ve already had it and according the the isrealis I?m 27 times more protected by natural immunity than everyone else so whatever place Cali wants to be at this week is of little concern to me. What I do care about is the $6.00 gas I saw the other day? in that respect Cali is surely number one!!
fatduck said:well, the per capita death rate in florida is 1.5x higher than california, but sure, all the same in the end
i'm sure the daily mail will sort it out for memorekaos said:fatduck said:well, the per capita death rate in florida is 1.5x higher than california, but sure, all the same in the end
If you believe in the methodology of how they label a covid death...with?..of?...secondary issues and co-morbidities?...lots of blur there.
fatduck said:i'm sure the daily mail will sort it out for memorekaos said:fatduck said:well, the per capita death rate in florida is 1.5x higher than california, but sure, all the same in the end
If you believe in the methodology of how they label a covid death...with?..of?...secondary issues and co-morbidities?...lots of blur there.
morekaos said:fatduck said:i'm sure the daily mail will sort it out for memorekaos said:fatduck said:well, the per capita death rate in florida is 1.5x higher than california, but sure, all the same in the end
If you believe in the methodology of how they label a covid death...with?..of?...secondary issues and co-morbidities?...lots of blur there.
It is a shame that it takes a foreign source of information to tell some truth that our own press will not admit nor cover.