"SPECIAL." Especially for RE-PLUGS and FOX NEWS Fans!

[jimntx]

I wasn't at fault. I was on a designated bike route, riding about 3 feet from the curb. The truck that hit me was coming out of a cut thru street and never slowed down and proceeded into the intersection...and me. The thing that gets me....I called 911 and told them I was hit by a car and injured. They dispatched fire and ambulance - but not the police. I had to ask the firefighters to call the police so that I could get a report filed. I don't think they even ticketed the driver.

They must have adopted the Dallas approach to roadway accidents...as long as all vehicles involved can be driven off the street and there are no deaths or serious injuries, then it's up to you to go to a police station and file a report. Getting everyone's info and getting tow trucks (as needed) is the citizen's responsibility. But don't get me started.

 

[NewHampshire Black Bears]

I wasn't at fault. I was on a designated bike route, riding about 3 feet from the curb. The truck that hit me was coming out of a cut thru street and never slowed down and proceeded into the intersection...and me. The thing that gets me....I called 911 and told them I was hit by a car and injured. They dispatched fire and ambulance - but not the police. I had to ask the firefighters to call the police so that I could get a report filed. I don't think they even ticketed the driver.

KC, did the BAS-***D stop to see if you were HURT ? Did you get his Information, Plate etc. I PRAY, you're going to get a good *EW lawyer, and SUE the **** out of driver AND his $$ Insurance $$ Co !

 

[NewHampshire Black Bears]

Yes. I am serious.

I can share the experience of being a COVID patient if you are interested. It is not like being a normal patient when you are in an isolation ward that is for sure.

Look Brother, Thankfully you're going to be back on your feet soon !!! 'THAT's NUMBER 1' .
Question.
Think(now), Dr. Fauci was wrong telling your A-H Governor to NOT allow big gatherings, like TULSA ???

 

[NewHampshire Black Bears]

Yes. I am serious.

I can share the experience of being a COVID patient if you are interested. It is not like being a normal patient when you are in an isolation ward that is for sure.

YES, La', I am interested !

 

[La Li Lu Le Lo]

Look Brother, Thankfully you're going to be back on your feet soon !!! 'THAT's NUMBER 1' .
Question.
Think(now), Dr. Fauci was wrong telling your A-H Governor to NOT allow big gatherings, like TULSA ???

I could agree with a recommendation not to ENCOURAGE big gatherings.

I do NOT agree with the government not to ALLOW big gatherings.

Especially in light of government hypocrisy telling the people no church but turning a blind eye to hate groups looting, burning, robbing, killing, and vandalizing. That should have become a police matter and possibly a military matter (domestic terrorist) long ago but it serves the Democrat's overall agenda so they have let it continue and even defended it. In my opinion these politicians neutering our police departments where they can't effectively do their job and defending these domestic terrorist should be brought up on charges of treason.

The government restricting peaceful gathering of people (as opposed to BLM and ANTIFA, who are anything but) is a very slippery slope. That is the sort of thing China does.

So yes Bears if he told him not to ALLOW big gatherings in my opinion that is unconstitutional and wrong unless of course the gathering becomes a destabilizing force in the community (ANTIFA, BLM).

 

[La Li Lu Le Lo]

YES, La', I am interested !

It started as Flu like symptoms. My body was aching and I was feeling light headed. I had what they call a non productive cough. I knew I was coming down with something by Sunday of that week but I was on scheduled vacation for the week afterward so I figure just work sick for the week (I had a fairly light week) and recover the week I was scheduled off.

I did OK Monday work wise (though it was exhausting even with a light work load) but both Wednesday and Thursday I had to hand my work over to a relief tech.

Anyway I spent the next 4 days in bed (Fri-Mon). I was more or less totally incapacitated. I could not stand up for more than 30 seconds at a time without being completely out of breath and having extreme fatigue. I had serious issues even going to the restroom. I lost taste and smell for about 2 hours for no apparent reason (remember my cough was "non productive so no congestion).

Tuesday night came and I knew I was in trouble. I told my wife I need to go to the hospital. She wanted to take me in our SUV but I told her there was no way I could make the trip that we had to call an ambulance.

The fire department were the first people to show up. They refused to enter the house until we were all masked up. Then they came in and looked me over a bit. Afterward the ambulance showed up and put me on oxygen.

When they (the ambulance) SUSPECT you have COVID they treat you as a COVID patient and they call the hospital and tell them to expect to receive a COVID patient.

When you get there you expect they will give you some sort of pill, shot, inhaler..... something to get you breathing but they don't. They stuck a bunch of tabs on my chest with monitoring equipment and left me in a room by myself for the next few hours. There was no way to call a nurse or anything and no one came to check on me for hours.

Eventually a nurse came in and said they were waiting on testing equipment for COVID and that after the test it would take up to 48 hours to get the test results back.

The testing equipment involves taking something similar to a Q-Tip, shoving it up your nose, twisting it, then pulling it back out. She told me not to pull away or I WOULD have a nosebleed. This is a very uncomfortable, painful procedure.

Next they move you to the COVID ward.

Two Tulsa police officers and 2 nurses showed up to take me to the ward. They say the police are there to enforce the 6 foot distancing rule during transport but you start feeling more like they are there in case someone get's it in their head they don't want to be put into quarantine. Seems like they picked a couple of bulls (these cops looked more like linebackers than cops).

Once you get to the COVID ward the first thing you notice is it is HOT. You see they have "negative pressure" on that floor. I have been told that was to eliminate spread of VIRUS and try to keep it out of the A/C system but to me that only meant no air conditioning. So there I am, can't breath, in a non air conditioned hospital room in the middle of an Oklahoma summer. One thing to note, they told me don't bother wearing a mask in the COVID ward because the type of mask I was wearing was useless anyway.

Now normally in a hospital they stop by your room every so often to take vitals and check on you. In the COVID ward they tell you upfront the doctors will see you ONCE a day and nurses will only come IF you call them. They tell you upfront they want to minimize exposure to YOU. However with Nurses being so busy it can take hours for them to respond. This was of particular distress regarding the water situation. Mind you I was breathing oxygen (which I felt dried my mouth and throat out) in a room with no air conditioning. It took hours to even get me water. Part of this is because they are required to trash and resuit in PPP every single time they enter and exit a room. So if they have a patient just right next door they can't just go room to room. They have to change. Also anything outside of the norm has to go through a process. I had to have a portable toilet beside my bed (again I could not stand for more than 30 seconds) and that took about 2.5 hours because of the process they have to go through to bring anything into the COVID ward.

The COVID ward consist of 2 sides. The "non confirmed side" while they await your test results, and the confirmed side post test results. If you come back negative they get you off the ward asap. If you test positive you go to the "confirmed side".

The non confirmed room was obviously not in a proper state. It looks like they were just trying to deal with the pandemic and put me in a room that was actually under a construction phase. The walls were missing paint, the clock had no power (don't know if it was battery or electric but the end result is the same, no time) and the TV (which I had very little interest in anyway in my current state) had no sound. I found this odd as our hospitals in Tulsa are usually very modern and clean. Again I assume this was simply due to them trying to deal with the pandemic. I guess I should feel very lucky after reading about some people being treated in metal buildings and tents.

The confirmed side was much better. An actual finished room, clock had power, and the TV had sound (which I only watched two shows, again too sick to really care about the TV). You notice it is a "private room" but it is obvious it was built for two people (by the divider curtain racks in the ceiling). I suspect they do that to keep you far from the room entrance but who knows.

You may wonder why I keep bringing up that clock. Well.... the clock is very visible. You are basically all alone and you can't sleep. So you just struggle to breath for hours not knowing how much time has passed because the clock does not work. It has a real psychological effect on you.

The first night in the "non confirmed room" was fairly quiet.

The second I heard 2 people go into "code". You start to wonder if they are going into code because of age, other health issues, or have simply been there longer. You wonder if YOU are the one going to be coding tomorrow.

Mind you the medical staff have not done anything to actually treat me as of yet except to put me on oxygen.

The next day they said they basically had 2 treatment options. They treated me with remdesivir and convalescent plasma. They had to get special permission from Oklahoma City to even use the Plasma. I guess it is limited and not everyone can get access. They said they had one more treatment as well but it was unproven, experimental, and very expensive. They also said I would probably not qualify for it anyway.

I started feeling better within 5 hours of the remdesivir and convalescent plasma. Before that I was wondering if I was going to get out of that place alive.

There are three things I learned about COVID during my stay.

#1 It is very important your mask is actually rated properly. Again, they told me to not even bother wearing one on the COVID ward. So please stop buying these homemade masks and wear a properly rated one.

#2 Don't expect immediate care when you go in as a COVID patient as far as medicine or anything like that until your test comes back positive. At least that is how it was for me.

#3 There are several strains of COVID. Just because you had it does not mean you are clear from "getting it". You can catch another strain, which puts you in extreme danger in the COVID ward because you have to assume that other people on the ward may have a different strain than you and you are already compromised.

I can assure anyone on here COVID is not a hoax. I have no doubt without that remdesivir and convalescent plasma I would either still be in the hospital or dead.

Even now after being out for a while I still have breathing issues (the Doc said I would have up and down days) and still get fatigued sometimes. I am able to keep my oxygen level up but my pulse has to raise high to compensate even now. Hopefully that will level back out over time.

I have made a commitment (despite my aversion to needles) to donate as much Plasma as I am able so they can use it to treat other patients. Again, I noticed a remarkable improvement within 5 hours. That is not to say I am healthy (even now) but I no longer feel I am slipping away, more like a daily struggle. I hope to be perfectly back to normal sometime next week.

 

[NewHampshire Black Bears]

La'.
Thankfully you 'cheated the grim reaper'. (Just trying to get you to smile a bit, my FRIEND) !!!!!

Question.
As I don't remember the Gov. of OK., opening-up like those MORONS in FL,GA,AR,TX and yes a (D) Gov. in CA., do think bars should still be closed, like say NYC ? Because like it or not, Gov. Cuomo did do, and continues to do a VERY GOOD job bring NYC back SLOWLY, using very strong measures ?

 

[Insp4]

Yes. I am serious.

I can share the experience of being a COVID patient if you are interested. It is not like being a normal patient when you are in an isolation ward that is for sure.

Glad to have you back La!
Sorry Bears, but so far I'm in the best of health!.........Ahhh! according to you, that's debatable! But it makes one wonder, that this pandemic would hit in an election year?..... How convenient!

 

[NewHampshire Black Bears]

Hey Dog'.

Where can Insp69 get a New TIN HAT ?
He needs a newer, better one !

 

[La Li Lu Le Lo]

La'.
Thankfully you 'cheated the grim reaper'. (Just trying to get you to smile a bit, my FRIEND) !!!!!

Question.
As I don't remember the Gov. of OK., opening-up like those MORONS in FL,GA,AR,TX and yes a (D) Gov. in CA., do think bars should still be closed, like say NYC ? Because like it or not, Gov. Cuomo did do, and continues to do a VERY GOOD job bring NYC back SLOWLY, using very strong measures ?

Bears I just don't know.

I mean you know.... how many small businesses are going to be driven out due to COVID?

It is easy to say close the bars down however, you need to remember that bar is someone's livelihood. Someone sacrificed to open that bar and I am just not comfortable allowing the government to decimate small businesses.

You might feel differently if you invested in that bar, struggled for 2 years to make money, and made it into a success only to have a no mask mandate shatter your finances and your dream.

To me there is no right answer here. Right now I am of the opinion I don't want run our economy into the ground over this thing.

 

[La Li Lu Le Lo]

Glad you are recovering. I'm kind of out of commission. I was hit by a car while riding my bike last week. My injuries (broken clavicle and bad bruising along my right side) are surprisingly mild considering the accident was a pretty nasty. I was going almost 20 mph and he broadsided me going about 20 mph. I went airborne and was thrown across two lanes of traffic. My bike is totaled, but thankfully (to those who care about me) I'm not.

I am sorry to hear that happened to you.

I regret I have not responded till now.

I wish you a quick recovery.

 

[La Li Lu Le Lo]

Glad to have you back La!\

Thank you.

 

[Dog Wonder]

Bears I just don't know.

I mean you know.... how many small businesses are going to be driven out due to COVID?

People that shop Wal-Mart drive local small businesses out.

 

[NewHampshire Black Bears]

Bears I just don't know.

I mean you know.... how many small businesses are going to be driven out due to COVID?

It is easy to say close the bars down however, you need to remember that bar is someone's livelihood. Someone sacrificed to open that bar and I am just not comfortable allowing the government to decimate small businesses.

You might feel differently if you invested in that bar, struggled for 2 years to make money, and made it into a success only to have a no mask mandate shatter your finances and your dream.

To me there is no right answer here. Right now I am of the opinion I don't want run our economy into the ground over this thing.

La'.

I accept your points, too a point !

In WAR, there are always collateral damage/damages.

This Covid-19 IS a World WAR !!

 

[Insp4]