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23.01.2022 I was sent this by email ..... I believe every word of it , and don't want to experience it . The paragraphs below were written by a nurse who works with ventil...ators: Here you go folks... for those people who don't understand what it means to be on a ventilator but want to take the chance of going back to work.... For starters, it's NOT an oxygen mask put over the mouth while the patient is comfortably lying down and reading magazines. Ventilation for COVID-19 is a painful intubation that goes down your throat and stays there until you live or you die. It is done under anesthesia for 2 to 3 weeks without moving, often upside down, with a tube inserted from the mouth up to the trachea and allows you to breathe to the rhythm of the lung machine. The patient can't talk or eat, or do anything naturally - the machine keeps you alive. The discomfort and pain they feel from this means medical experts have to administer sedatives and painkillers to ensure tube tolerance for as long as the machine is needed. It's like being in an artificial coma. After 20 days from this treatment, a young patient loses 40% muscle mass, and gets mouth or vocal cords trauma, as well as possible pulmonary or heart complications. It is for this reason that old or already weak people can't withstand the treatment and die. Many of us are in this boat ... so stay safe unless you want to take the chance of ending up here. This is NOT the flu. Add a tube into your stomach, either through your nose or skin for liquid food, a sticky bag around your butt to collect the diarrhea, a foley to collect urine, an IV for fluids and meds, an A-line to monitor your BP that is completely dependent upon finely calculated med doses, teams of nurses, CRNA’s and MA’s to reposition your limbs every two hours and lying on a mat that circulates ice cold fluid to help bring down your 104 degree temp. Anyone want to try all that out? See more
22.01.2022 Some useful information I found shared by a friend. Worth a read That bite of summer has well and truly come early this year and with that heat, comes snakes. ...This article was written by Rob Timmings Rob runs a medical/nursing education business Teaching nurses, doctors and paramedics. It’s well worth the read #ECT4Health 3000 bites are reported annually. 300-500 hospitalisations 2-3 deaths annually. Average time to death is 12 hours. The urban myth that you are bitten in the yard and die before you can walk from your chook pen back to the house is a load of rubbish. While not new, the management of snake bite (like a flood/fire evacuation plan or CPR) should be refreshed each season. Let’s start with a Basic overview. There are five genus of snakes that will harm us (seriously) Browns, Blacks, Adders, Tigers and Taipans. All snake venom is made up of huge proteins (like egg white). When bitten, a snake injects some venom into the meat of your limb (NOT into your blood). This venom can not be absorbed into the blood stream from the bite site. It travels in a fluid transport system in your body called the lymphatic system (not the blood stream). Now this fluid (lymph) is moved differently to blood. Your heart pumps blood around, so even when you are lying dead still, your blood still circulates around the body. Lymph fluid is different. It moves around with physical muscle movement like bending your arm, bending knees, wriggling fingers and toes, walking/exercise etc. Now here is the thing. Lymph fluid becomes blood after these lymph vessels converge to form one of two large vessels (lymphatic trunks)which are connected to veins at the base of the neck. Back to the snake bite site. When bitten, the venom has been injected into this lymph fluid (which makes up the bulk of the water in your tissues). The only way that the venom can get into your blood stream is to be moved from the bite site in the lymphatic vessels. The only way to do this is to physically move the limbs that were bitten. Stay still!!! Venom can’t move if the victim doesn’t move. Stay still!! Remember people are not bitten into their blood stream. In the 1980s a technique called Pressure immobilisation bandaging was developed to further retard venom movement. It completely stops venom /lymph transport toward the blood stream. A firm roll bandage is applied directly over the bite site (don’t wash the area). Technique: Three steps: keep them still Step 1 Apply a bandage over the bite site, to an area about 10cm above and below the bite. Step 2: Then using another elastic roller bandage, apply a firm wrap from Fingers/toes all the way to the armpit/groin. The bandage needs to be firm, but not so tight that it causes fingers or toes to turn purple or white. About the tension of a sprain bandage. Step 3: Splint the limb so the patient can’t walk or bend the limb. Do nots: Do not cut, incise or suck the venom. Do not EVER use a tourniquet Don’t remove the shirt or pants - just bandage over the top of clothing. Remember movement (like wriggling out of a shirt or pants) causes venom movement. DO NOT try to catch, kill or identify the snake!!! This is important. In hospital we NO LONGER NEED to know the type of snake; it doesn’t change treatment. 5 years ago we would do a test on the bite, blood or urine to identify the snake so the correct anti venom can be used. BUT NOW... we don’t do this. Our new Antivenom neutralises the venoms of all the 5 listed snake genus, so it doesn’t matter what snake bit the patient. Read that again- one injection for all snakes! Polyvalent is our one shot wonder, stocked in all hospitals, so most hospitals no longer stock specific Antivenins. Australian snakes tend to have 3 main effects in differing degrees. Bleeding - internally and bruising. Muscles paralysed causing difficulty talking, moving & breathing. Pain In some snakes severe muscle pain in the limb, and days later the bite site can break down forming a nasty wound. Allergy to snakes is rarer than winning lotto twice. Final tips: not all bitten people are envenomated and only those starting to show symptoms above are given antivenom. Did I mention to stay still. ~Rob Timmings Kingston/Robe Health Advisory #vrarescue #snakebite
22.01.2022 Talk about dedication. Martin Molin is next level.
21.01.2022 about 5 metres depth of sand has gone all along the beach . once one could walk onto the level beach , but not now .
16.01.2022 Hello my lovely people. Here is my song for today and it is a Neil Sedaka song called our last song together which he wrote at the end of his time with one of h...is songwriting partners. I forget whether it was Howard Greenfield or Phil Cody, but it is probably one of my favourite Neil Sedaka songs. Enjoy. X See more
16.01.2022 Today’s video has taken a long time to do and I still think that the balance is slightly off, but hopefully it is good enough for you to be able to hear the words at least most of the time. Enjoy stone in love with you. X
13.01.2022 Latest song with the Shropshire Ukulele Massive
10.01.2022 UPDATE: SHAGY & NATHAN’S STORY: STOLEN FROM CIRCULAR QUAY, SYDNEY 30/08/20 @ approx 2pm. 0406 834 001 with ANY INFO. Hello everyone. We have spoken to N...athan (the dog’s owner). Her name is SHAGY. He rescued Shaggy from a skip bin out the back of Surry Hills just before Christmas 2019. She had a shopping trolley on top of her as well He took her to Redfern Vet and arranged for antibiotics. Shagy was almost dead when Nathan found her. The vet allegedly told Nathan that she was so badly neglected and malnourished that the people listed on her microchip had obviously abused her. He hand fed her small amounts and nursed her back to health. Nathan goes without so he can give her quality food ~ I’m very picky about what she eats Nathan told me. I saved her but really she saved me. Nathan has carried Shagy everywhere since the day he saved her. I promised her I would look after her until the day she dies. He went to the bathroom for 2 mins on Sunday 30/08/20 @ 2pm and when he came back she was gone. Nathan started yelling for help but nobody helped.. everyone thought I was crazy. Nathan told me he approached a policeman who promised to come back but never did. All I could do was sit on my bed and cry. Nathan is still sitting on his bed waiting for Shagy to come home. If you know something please say something and please share the buggery out of this. Nathan & Shagy not only belong together but they need each other. Arthur & Co. will be assisting with anything Shagy needs (vets, food etc) once she is found. See more
