Day 14

Today one of the ER nurses brought over a few new patients to the PACU unit. She was speaking about how disheartened the staff over there had been feeling. The ER can be it's own world, they are structured differently than the floors and the only overlap is when they bring patients to us. All they have been doing is intubating people and then never hearing what happens to their patients.

One of the other nurses had been speaking with an overseeing ICU doctor yesterday. He reported to her that he had gotten several of his patients extubated! Overall the hospital decreased the amount of ventilated patients by 14! The ER nurse was relieved to hear this, to know that intubation was not a death sentence for their patients. That progress was being made and people were surviving.

There have been more stories of survival beginning to surface on the nursing pages I am following. Things are still hard, but there seems to be more hope that the curve is truly flattening out here.

Best of luck back in Utah as things start to open. New York was hit first, and they showed us how to fight the virus. Lets get this right, show New York that returning back to normalcy is possible. That eventually they will be able to as well!

Don't forget to wash your hands!

Britt.