Yesterday on LBC on the NF show he interviewed another radio presenter who had this virus.
He stated he was a bit unwell and a few days later could not breath.
Call an ambulance they tested him at his home was supposed to have at least a 94% oxygen in his body but it was very very low soput him on a respirator straight away and took him to hospital.
He was there for 4 days on this respirator but had to take it off when going to the bog but rush back to put it back on because it felt like he was drowning.
The respirators I have in mind involve a tube being inserted down the trachea. In order to do this, the patient must be sedated and would be quite unable to pop the tube out to go to the bog, and certainly unable to pop it back down his throat! Any excretions would then be the ‘responsibility’ of the nursing staff!
I thought people on a ventilator were not conscious but perhaps that is incorrect. It must be very frightening if you are on one and conscious. The instinct is to try to breathe and I think many would panic.
All I know is that many of the daily government bulletins on coronavirus show journalists, from different parts of the media, asking questions similar to those the article mentions but there is very little about this anywhere, just this one news item as far as I have seen. That just had me wondering so thought I would post it to see what others thought.
I heard on I think it was our local news about a lady who was a nurse. She caught the virus and her daughter was crying telling the reporters how frightened her mum was and she said her mum was crying ‘don’t leave me, I’m frightened.’ How terrible that the family will have to live with that memory and they must have felt helpless. Broke my heart.
Well that was weird if not quite disturbing!
I just let my dog out, looked up at the stars as usual. There were about ten planes in a line heading South. Very high altitude, couldn’t hear them.
Very weird indeed! Where are they heading and why?
A respirator, or in other words a ventilator, can be used for two purposes. 1st it can be used to provide positive oxygen pressure to a patient who can breathe on their own but who are not getting enough oxygen into their body. For this procedure, all that is necessary is to provide just barely enough sedation to calm the patient. 2nd it can also be used to actually breathe for the patient. In this case a patient is given a much larger dose of sedating meds, which paralyses the muscles and they are then intubated. The machine then
actually breathes for the patient who is now in a drug induced coma.
When we read that a patient is on a respirator (ventilator), but we have no other info, we do not know which of the above is being used.
Thank goodness they are now letting family say goodbye so that people are not in that awful situation. This was the most frightening thing about Covid, that going into hospital could mean never seeing your loved ones again once you’re in that ambulance. I can’t think of anything that would deter recovery more than that kind of anxiety.
I am sure I’ve seen an interview with a man who recovered after being on the ventilator. He described waking up and panicking because of the ventilator and all the equipment. He felt he couldn’t breathe because the machine was doing the work. It sounded awful.
Indeed. That happened to a friend of Marge recently. Her husband was taken very ill into hospital and died in her absence. One consolation was that one of the nurses held his hand as he died.
