Lindy

Words

Words matter. Context matters. Recently a group of white militia/ Nazis loaded themselves into U-Hauls and marched around the capital complex in DC. One report described them carrying riot shields shouting slogans and attempting to intimidate. Another report described the same group of misguided men carrying plastic shields and running away from hecklers. The firstContinue reading “Words”

Hoax

I started to post on a non covid topic. Obviously I have change tracks. I, as have the rest of the world, been watching the emergence of the Omnicron varient. I have the same feeling of concern, but not panic I felt January 2020. It is the same feeling I had last July when DeltaContinue reading “Hoax”

Stages

I think nearly everyone is familiar with Kubler-Ross and the five stages of grief and loss. I certainly am. My profession is all about those five stages. My job is to help families navigate the end of life for their loved ones. It is a difficult personal journey. No two families navigate impending loss inContinue reading “Stages”

Life isn’t fair

A year ago July I contracted Covid. I was two weeks away from having benefits, so my medical care was substandard. Like many others, I was in good health before I became sick. On Thursday I walked the dogs three miles and rode my bike an additional five. I cleaned the house in anticipation ofContinue reading “Life isn’t fair”

Burnt

I wrote this as a comment on a WA PO article on acute care nurses leaving the profession due to burn out. It isn’t just acute care (hospital) nurses that are running on fumes. It’s all of us. When covid patients are sent home to die, it’s hospice nurses that go into their homes toContinue reading “Burnt”

Zen

A very small percentage of healthcare workers have declared they will quit or be fired over vaccine mandates. I know numbers in the hundreds seem like a lot. It isn’t. This isn’t cataclysmic. It is unfortunate. The large majority of us welcome vaccines and if we need to booster every six months so be it.Continue reading “Zen”

Word Salad

It is easy to become numb to the ongoing insanity. It has almost become comical the various and sundry quack “cures” for covid. Almost. Over the last few days I have learned that inhaling betadine, hydrogen peroxide and/or gargling onion juice will protect against the virus-that-is-just-like-a-bad-flu. Onion juice. Why onion juice? It seems to meContinue reading “Word Salad”

Not Funny

I was in the middle of writing a post about the use of dark humor as a survival tool when my neighbor called. She called to let me know her son died this morning. He did not survive being removed from the ventilator. He refused to vaccinate in spite of a plethora of high riskContinue reading “Not Funny”

Mandate

We already have vaccine mandates in our nation. The military gets more vaccines than the general public. Schoolchildren need vaccines to go to school. There are vaccines needed for my work. I fail to understand why the covid vaccine is any different. There are those who are calling for a civil war over a mandateContinue reading “Mandate”

Solutions

There have been many times over the past few years that reality has been turned on it’s head. Their was a brief period late last winter when I actually had some cautious optimism. We appeared to be heading back to a place where reality was in residence. Perhaps we might even move forward a bitContinue reading “Solutions”