@BCNursesUnion I find it so interesting how in the most recent issue of your magazine: I'm a retired former RN, as representatives of healthcare in BC, in all the photos of RN's gathered for meetings or conferences, only ONE RN was wearing a mask but a poor blue paper mask.
Is your entire union group unaware that for all of 2025, the level of Covid in BC has been either high or very high. Currently 1 in 47 BC residents have Covid & not necessarily isolating themselves. WHY ISN'T BCNU following scientific guidelines of masking against aerosol
spreading virus such as Covid. The pandemic is not over and in fact the levels now are as high as they were in 2021. How many RN's now have had Covid more than once or eve twice? What about the newest research showing cognitive decline is high with repeated Covid infections. Are
those at the BCNU who are RN's really unaware of this. Although I am retired, I still mask when out of my home. I haven't had Covid because of this and since March 2020. Why not have the concern to protect your members from having Covid? Why not have them masked with N95's when
working to protect patients? Is it so repugnant an idea most RN's will not even mask if asked by Covid aware patients? Surely that ignores the ethical code of: Do no harm? I won't hold my breath waiting for a reply to this but know I have called your main number to speak to
someone about this issue over past years and all I ever have are the request to leave a message or email. So far never have never had a reply. Here are a few factual images about Covid in Canada & the US based on wastewater analysis in September.
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@Fiona_Hendriks @MeetJess Silliness abounds with your comment unfortunately. Covid isn't a party favour and in fact with the new research the effect on especially the brain with even a mild infection is profoundly affecting frontal lobe functioning of reasoning, emotional control, motivation and is 1/2
@Fiona_Hendriks @MeetJess even causing early dementia. I'm not anxious at all since over these past years during this ongoing pandemic, by masking I have not been infected and thus have kept my brain functioning well along with my cardiovascular system which for many is causing after a Covid infection 2/3
@Fiona_Hendriks @MeetJess is causing serious continued debility from strokes, heart attacks and even having the two pacer nodes in the heart itself damaging the control of normal heart rate. Even athletes in top condition have now been rendered close to immobile with resting heart rates of 120 beats 3/4
@FLSurgeonGen As someone who worked as a Pediatric and Adult Critical Care RN, BScN & Nurse Clinician x 34 yrs. now retired, I fail to understand your stance on all the anti-science you state when your profile statement includes the words, "...healthy living." To make the
comments you do when you should be following ethical guidelines of doing no harm, yet your ideas of drinking raw milk (Not allowed to be sold in Canada), anti-vaccine with your rhetoric, makes me wonder if you do this to get the attention you didn't get when a doctor who was
following decades of accurate science research. To be a doctor and really prey on those who are not medically aware is actively doing much harm. Surely you know how vaccines stopped smallpox, polio and eradicated measles in the US for many years until recently due to children NOT
@mikejwhelan Insurance companies have a template of making money any way possible and that includes either refusing claims or adding many layers of having a simple claim accepted hoping the person will give up. Example: I've had my vehicle damaged. We have a provincial govt. based vehicle 1/2
@mikejwhelan insurance for which I pay nearly $1,000 annually. I never have claims but did notice damage to my vehicle - a scratch, not my fault; so filed a claim. Now instead of their having agents assess damage, it's the body shop. No need to wonder if they don't assess to make as much 2/3
@mikejwhelan money as possible. My claim is about a long white thin scratch along most of the passenger side of my Rav. I placed the claim and went to the body shop about 4 weeks ago, who sends their report to the insurance company and with one claim I have a $300 deductible. The agent 3/4
Story from my life: So driving along a residential street, I see a lone miniature collie cross the street obviously lost and quickly turned right to park and see if it would stop for me as I got out and called the dog over. After a bit of looking at me, finally did. Another lady
had stopped on the other side of the road thinking was I was and that the dog was lost. Wearing a collar and tags, I was able to hold the collar and read out the multiple phone numbers on the tag to the other woman but no one answered any of the calls and she did text a few too
with no response. I'd guess while I am talking to the dog, whose name is Miller, she made phone calls over about 20 minutes. No luck and I'm thinking if the dog would get in my vehicle, I'd take him to my former veterinarian's office and see if he is micro-chipped. Then an older
Reason for this is: A few weeks ago, a very nice male resident in our smaller condo complex who owns a friendly dog was alone & was talking to another dog owner here with her dog who bit him when he went to pat the dog. He needed stitches to his hand. This dog is a Husky type.
The man told me later when I saw the bandage on his hand what had happened. He said the female owner said the dog hadn't been well at the time & so he was willing to let 'it' go. He said she apparently was going to muzzle her dog in future and take it to 'classes.' This evening I
saw her and the dog which was muzzled. I let her know I heard what had happened. I love dogs and it was leashed and so I called to it. It came over and as I went to pat it, the dog had he/she? went to bite me. I wasn't due to the muzzle. Did startle me though. She again said her
@BamaSaltyMarine I worked as a Critical Care RN with many shifts in a Coronary Care Acute unit, in ER & an Open Heart Post Op ICU. 1) Denial is a symptom of a heart attack. People try to blame it on indigestion, gall bladder, fatigue. It's usually not if left/central crushing chest pain.
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@BamaSaltyMarine 2) Pain is only a symptom when there is over 90% blockage of a coronary artery. 3) Cholesterol build-up in arteries forms and becomes solid preventing the artery from expanding when needed with exertion and more oxygen is needed for the heart muscle and the body. Arteries 2/3
@BamaSaltyMarine can expand up to 10% of the original diameter. Smoking actually causes contraction of the arteries. 4) The blood of cholesterol built up arteries is through pin holes, not the middle part and thus if those pin holes close totally, this is why even with a cardiac arrest from 3/4