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NurseKelsey (she/her) 🌈✨🎉❤️🏳️‍🌈 Profile picture
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Oct 29 • 1 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Healthcare workers: the best way to build instant rapport with a masked patient is to wear a mask to the appt. The next best way if you see they’re masked is to immediately put on a mask, not ask if they want you to.

See a mask, wear a mask.

(Or just always wear a mask 😉)

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NurseKelsey (she/her) 🌈✨🎉❤️🏳️‍🌈 Profile picture
Jun 4
Recently I remembered a night shift in our ICU where three bad traumas came in at the same time. None were expected to survive. None had family who could get there in time.

Along with two of my coworkers, we each took a room.
We had help to gently bathe them, carefully wipe away blood & debris, slip on clean gowns & tuck them in warm blankets. Then we each pulled up a chair & sat with our patient, gave meds to keep them as comfortable as possible & held their hands as they calmly passed away.
Staffing doesn’t always allow for that, there isn’t always staff who want to sit with dying patients & it’s rare patients make it up to the ICU & pass away so promptly. Our wonderful ER comrades see that far more than we do.

But that night they came to us.
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NurseKelsey (she/her) 🌈✨🎉❤️🏳️‍🌈 Profile picture
Dec 7, 2022
We’re seeing an increase in admissions with “incidental COVID” - meaning presenting without the “typical” COVID symptoms of respiratory distress, fever, etc.

They’re coming in with strokes, blood clots, suicide attempts, heart attacks & testing positive on screening swabs.
I say this because these people are out in communities, not testing for COVID because they don’t have “typical” symptoms. They are unmasked, feeling fine, still highly contagious.

This is your reminder: protect yourself & others by masking.

If you stopped masking, start again.
Also, “incidental” doesn’t mean not correlated. COVID causes all kinds of issues with clotting (strokes, heart attacks, blood clots) as well as studies have proven the neuro side effects, linked to suicidality.

The presenting symptoms are changing. The cause is the same.
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NurseKelsey (she/her) 🌈✨🎉❤️🏳️‍🌈 Profile picture
Feb 10, 2022
🧵 I had a mild case of COVID. I’m back to work & looking from the outside very much back to baseline. I’m the “99%” that so many like to reference. But like many who also had mild COVID, much of my existence is different, shifted, not quite right & just “off.”
I get bouts of fatigue that knock me out, sometimes after minor physical exertion & also sometimes out of nowhere. I was a big time runner before COVID - I’m still not able to really get back to it. My endurance with just walking or taking stairs is significantly affected.
I get brain fog, my thoughts heavy, slow & sluggish, like the wheels are rusty & can’t keep up with a normal pace. I have a hard time concentrating & I am more forgetful than before, losing things, misplacing items I’ve never misplaced before.
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NurseKelsey (she/her) 🌈✨🎉❤️🏳️‍🌈 Profile picture
Jan 19, 2022
After nearly two years of extreme precautions, no play dates, no swim lessons, wearing the most protective mask indoors for months…my unvaccinated 4 year old tested positive for COVID yesterday after a preschool exposure.

Shortly afterward, my COVID test came back positive.
We did everything right, followed all of the guidelines and then some. My kids have sacrificed so much only to still get sick because other people couldn’t sacrifice for them.

I am sad, angry, worried & just profoundly disappointed in humanity.

It didn’t have to be this way.
My daughter’s symptoms are a fever of 102 and she’s extras snuggly. No respiratory issues.

I have a sore throat, bodyaches, congestion, fever, mild shortness of breath and nausea

I have my pulse ox, a thermometer & friends and family offering to bring us anything we need.
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