Boaz
03-31-2021, 08:19 PM
Some here know I visit rest homes . Last year with some serious back problems , anemia and a shoulder replacement I cut it back to 2 rest homes .
One was a really big new facility , very nice place . The Covid hit and ALL rest homes there was no gaining entry unless you were critical for their operation . It left a hole in my life and I did a lot of praying over it . These days with all the client privacy concerns in the medical facilities I couldn't even check on the ones I had been visiting . Most all the patients I had been visiting were short term terminal cases . I felt like I had abandoned them .
Yesterday I was at Tractor Supply picking up some dog food and odds and ends . My riding mower had some issues and was trying to make the poor old thing pull out another season . I got a call while I was bagging up some bolts , nuts and washers . It was Tina !
Tina is the nurse supervisor at the big facility . Wonderful lady and cares about her patients . I was totally surprised to hear from her . She told me that her and her husband had contracted the virus and both had a hard time . She had to be hospitalized but was back at work soon as they let her . Her and her husband are good Christians , I have known them for a long time . We have prayed together many times .
I asked her how many patients were lost to Covid . She hesitated and said...Charlie ..we lost 82 patients . That hit me hard ! 82 lost to the virus in a year ! I knew there would be some but....82 ! She asked if I'd gotten the vaccine , I told her I got the first shot two weeks ago and was scheduled for the second in two more weeks . She told me she would get me in the facility .
There are only 2 people left that I had been seeing , both wheelchair bound . Beverly has cancer and has lived longer than they predicted . Ed is a black guy , diabetic , had his legs amputated and has to go to dialysis twice a week . They both had Covid and lived through it .
This virus has taken many . Please pray for ones with it and the families that have lost loved ones .
One was a really big new facility , very nice place . The Covid hit and ALL rest homes there was no gaining entry unless you were critical for their operation . It left a hole in my life and I did a lot of praying over it . These days with all the client privacy concerns in the medical facilities I couldn't even check on the ones I had been visiting . Most all the patients I had been visiting were short term terminal cases . I felt like I had abandoned them .
Yesterday I was at Tractor Supply picking up some dog food and odds and ends . My riding mower had some issues and was trying to make the poor old thing pull out another season . I got a call while I was bagging up some bolts , nuts and washers . It was Tina !
Tina is the nurse supervisor at the big facility . Wonderful lady and cares about her patients . I was totally surprised to hear from her . She told me that her and her husband had contracted the virus and both had a hard time . She had to be hospitalized but was back at work soon as they let her . Her and her husband are good Christians , I have known them for a long time . We have prayed together many times .
I asked her how many patients were lost to Covid . She hesitated and said...Charlie ..we lost 82 patients . That hit me hard ! 82 lost to the virus in a year ! I knew there would be some but....82 ! She asked if I'd gotten the vaccine , I told her I got the first shot two weeks ago and was scheduled for the second in two more weeks . She told me she would get me in the facility .
There are only 2 people left that I had been seeing , both wheelchair bound . Beverly has cancer and has lived longer than they predicted . Ed is a black guy , diabetic , had his legs amputated and has to go to dialysis twice a week . They both had Covid and lived through it .
This virus has taken many . Please pray for ones with it and the families that have lost loved ones .