1/n: I’m in Louisiana for a non-COVID family emergency.
Said emergency makes me visit the ICU every day, three times a day. Been here since Saturday, and in the process I’ve seen
A
LOT.
2/n: Today, I sat beside a woman in the icu as she wept. I rode an elevator with a grieving wife. There are sirens. My family’s ICU unit is getting back crowded…
3/n: the front desk manager just warned us that 2 people visitation might be stopped “soon” (so say your goodbyes)
4/n: I am a COVID vaccine inventor.
… In Louisiana… a “hot-spot”… watching the virus do what viruses do.
… Feeling helpless because people are opting out of the vaccine.
I um… I… I don’t have the words.
5/n: Please go get vaccinated, y’all.
Please. That’s it. I’m beyond the point of not begging.
Just go. If you are able-bodied… go.
*end rant*
6/n: Update: My ICU waiting room friend lost her husband to COVID. Yesterday, I grieved her husband like I would grieve an uncle. I can only imagine what the ICU docs and nurses have been through for 1.5 years.
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