Amanda O’Dell Petersen was attacked on Facebook for a post on working conditions in the Phoenix hospital in Arizona. He wrote it “to open your eyes” on the health emergency, but …
“I deleted my post out of fear. I wish I didn’t, because people told me they didn’t know the situation was so terrible, – writes the Phoenix nurse accompanying her selfie. – Sharing my experience has opened someone’s eyes. “And invites those who attacked and mocked them to review their positions.
“There is a photo that turns with the beds in the atrium of our third floor where mothers and children are located: it is not a fake“, he insists, letting himself go to a long open heart vent.
“I’m tired of random people who they tell me I’m exaggerating on our ICU numbers or how many Covid patients we are seeing. I’m tired that people don’t care because they don’t directly know anyone who has tested positive, so it’s not a big deal. “
“Healthcare workers are silenced by people who feel privileged enough to ‘exercise their rights’ and have fun in a bar assembled with their fellow men. Negligent people who believe that since they found some videos of doctors who support their convictions, show us that we were wrong to wear masks “.
“I wear a mask for 12 hours. So do my colleagues. We wear masks that dig into our faces so hard that we go home with bruises and sores.”
“But do you know what you can’t see in your own ignorance? – he explains. – The overflowing intensive care. People who die alone. And the 40-year-old companion who says goodbye through FaceTime. People who beg you not to let her die while panting in the air. Patients who arrive stable one day and on the next shift died. (…) Healthcare workers who go home at night and have nightmares. And panic attacks. And anxiety. “
Hence the renewed appeal to those who live without respecting the anti-Covid rules to change their attitude and use precautions to avoid contagion. “We completely failed. They are not lies. We don’t care about being called heroes. We care about people’s lives. We don’t want to see you here. Help me relieve the anxiety of returning home from this nightmare, because two children under the age of 2 are waiting for me at home “, he concludes
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