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An older friend of ours recently spent damn near a week on a bed in the emergency section, after she got moved from the hall. No beds available. She was, and still is, dealing with a serious heart condition plus at that time with a nasty infection that she could not control. She was really, really sick. Peeps who have not been to a hospital recently have no idea how hard this mess has been for health care workers. Many of whom have given up and left in fear for their families, leaving the workers still there often working in impossibly understaffed conditions.I spent 24 hours on a gurney in the hallway of the ER with a lot of really sick people, homeless, crazy, old, and any combination of them. The poor devil in front of me came from a convalescent home. He had bags attached to his belly, diapers the size of sheets, he was emaciated and very much out of his mind. He screamed and yelled at the top of his lungs incomprehensible sounds all night 6 -8 hours. the really old women behind me was there for a fall and may have had some broken bones. She had a whisky voice and proceeded to yell at the poor fellow in front of me "Shut up your going to give me a heart attach" "I am going to kick your ass" and on and on all night.
I have a little PTSD from seeing so many really sick people stacked up in the hallways like cord wood. I don't live in a third world country or do I? The health care workers are heroes. I saw way too much human suffering and stuff that cannot be unseen.
I have a lot of stories the fist of which is the bathrooms. Fuck me I have to walk in there with these socks on? I wanted to levitate above the floor and toilet. It was like a bus station bathroom. It was not from a lack of cleaning just simply way too many peeps in and out.
Then my gurney got moved to a bay in the ER with a curtain between me and the next guy for the next 26 hours. More stories latter.
"Heros" is not adequate, but I don't have a better word. I hope you do not have any return visits this winter.