My First Covid Patient

Today, I was assigned with a 91-year-old female Covid19 patient. Her name is Lheonhorah Cuhrrahn (intentionally misspelled for confidentiality reasons).

When I got to work this evening, I saw myself being assigned 1-on-1 with the patient in Room 30. This was the second positive Covid19 patient in our facility. She was an ex-covid patient at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, was discharge Covid19 negative after 2 swabs but for some reasons was positive again when she was swabbed on admission her at Kindred.

I did not expected to be assigned again with a Covid19 patient because I had admitted an ex-Covid patient from the adjacent room in Room 31. Then today they assigned me again. We'll see tomorrow if they assigned me. Hopefully not!

Well, basically I have one patient tonight. A total care patient due to her Covid19 status. She is AAO x3, kinda confuse due to her dementia. She is uncooperative, always took off her nasal cannula despite being tachypniec. She was really not participating in her care. But better right now because it seems that she is not having respiratory patients just like other Covid19 patients. Not on ventilator either, thank God!

I will be taking care of her for the whole 12-Hr shift but I will intend to cluster the care to make her more time to rest for her recuperation. She doesn't look contagious but with the notoriety of the virus don't have to be relaxed about it. I know more precautions should be initiated and that I have to be careful when entering the room. I am scared but it is challenging.

She feels lonely inside but I tried my best to ease her loneliness and depression by talking to her as much as possible without getting near her. She's able to follow simple commands and that is all right with me. In the end what is really needed is good communication and understanding so that care can be delivered efficiently and accordingly.

Hopefully, I can sail through the whole shift and that nothing will happen to me. I've been paranoid now but who doesn't? Anyway, whatever happens it will e unto my way of protecting myself. Yeah!

What's Wrong With The World

Starting the chaos because of an ex-convict's death. I mean it's just not black people lives matters. Everybody lives matter. There were more martyr that we can mourn and raise high but not a black person who uses a counterfeit $20 bill and with some bad record in the past.

I mean the policeman Chauvin was at fault for hold choking him but it's not right to glorify George Floyd because he died of that choke hold. He is a criminal and shouldn't not be made into a hero posthumously. It's nonsense to me.

And people of Minneapolis started to protest and then they lot and burn the whole city. I mean, how can you do that to your neighborhood? The place they live in? That's a shame because their city is burned down now. And the city government is facing a big problem on how to recover.

Another problem is the rampant gathering all over the nation which is a threat to another wave of Covid19 infections which was still on the rise. People protesting and rioting without face covering? I guess America will be doomed.

I was watching a video of a looting in downtown Los Angeles where they ransacked the jewelry district. It was really chaos. Another video I watched was regarding the Wells Fargo Bank where the rioters took of the board at the door and then smashed the windows for 15 minutes and then when it gave way they went in and the video was done. I don't know if they got some money inside?

With these happening around us it is disheartening and frustrating. Ruining a city you live in is bad. No fear of the teachings of God and respect of other people. What kind of generation does America have today..... a generation of looters and criminals? Aaaah... it is so out of this world.