Deception! You Have to Fight it.

 I'm really going to have to stop minding my own business! Whenever I do that something really bad usually happens! Today, I was doing exactly that, I was coming home from a great day of work, but one that started out pretty funky.  I pulled out onto the expressway and there was already a line forming for the light that was well over half a mile down the road!  I took an exit and bailed before I got mixed up in that.  Good thing I did too, as I drove an alternative route it was apparent that others were doing the same thing. We all ended up close to where we should have ended, but we all pulled up a bit too short and were in another traffic jam just before again, finding an egress and making our way (snaking and sort of exploring) through the parking lots of two separate malls in order to get to a light that wasn't stuck on red or wasn't blinking!! OMG, there were people driving full speed right through the red lights because they apparently had stayed red. NOPE. That's how accidents happen!

    So, yeah, there were two separate accidents due to impatient Monday morning morons. Those of us who took the scenic route found ourselves able to get onto the right streets and quickly out of the way! YEA!  I made it to work on time, and when I came home I was beckoned IMMEDIATELY by my daughter Laura, who hadn't moved all day from where she had stumbled and collapsed onto the overstuffed chair in the living room. She could barely move, she was clinched, locked up, and feverish. Time to go to the hospital.  This has happened a few times in the past four years but this time she had sat in the same spot for hours without calling me to say she needed help.  She's a bit too polite. I really don't know who raised her, I don't give off those particular vibes that often; especially if I'm about to die. I will ask for help.

    We make it to the E.R. and we check in, I won't go into the hassle we ran into with the intake specialist; suffice it to say she was triaged ONLY because her mother isn't polite.  I basically forced the front desk to push her through so she could get an IV in her arm! I must have told them 11 times that she was about to pass out and when it gets to that point it will be next to impossible to find a vein. I guess the little woman up front had been a bit jaded from all the mothers who come in and demand that their kids be seen. My kid is 33, and couldn't stand, she was a shaking body of heavy jello, and she did eventually pass out; just like I said she was going to. THAT was when they FINALLY admitted her to triage. It was a bit better once we got past the gatekeeper. I know she has a job to do, but there is also something to be said for mothers knowing their kids and their behaviors.

    OK, so here's the part about Deception and how you need to fight it.  Laura was questioned, but I had to answer. She was incoherent. They finally managed to get her permission to discuss her details, and I answered for her. When the question came up as to whether or not she was fully vaccinated I declared that the state law prohibits them from specifically asking, as it is often used as a means for bias in treatment. They reworded the question, not willing to leave the box unchecked. I told them that she was being seen for dehydration and flu-type symptoms. They decided to do a multiple type test to see if she had C19, Flu, or RSV, but I again insisted that they run the IV first; she was dehydrated to the point of passing out and I was going to become a bit more adamant if the refused service because they wanted to probe about her vaccines.  They started the IV.

    The sweet woman trying to find one of Laura's useable veins tried four separate times. She mentioned that if she had been called thirty minutes before she had been that she could have gotten it on the first try. I agreed. I told her that EVERY TIME we go to the hospital we have to fight the front desk and without exception they always wait too long and Laura is poked and poked and the medical staff becomes more concerned by the minute. You'd think they'd read the charts.  Laura is too sweet. She would say, "Oh, it's OK, I'll be alright. See the others first. I am sure they need more help."  I'm not that nice. I've tried to make this point. I know when she is about to tip over and pass the point of no return. 

    Once the IV was in the same nurse administered the three-in-one nose test to see if Laura was in fact suffering from Big C, the Flu, or RSV, a respiratory virus that has many of the same symptoms as the Flu and as C-word.  She informed us that the doctor would come in and tell us what the results were. Since they didn't have an open bed they put Laura in the hallway and though she had six blankets wrapped around her she was literally chattering and spazing from the IV drip. I had no idea that could happen. I Googled it, and it does happen. The IV saline was at room temperature too!  Laura's fever was just at 100, so it makes sense.

    She was finally moved to an E.R. room, not admitted, and another nurse came in to say the results were back, and it was "you know what". Oh really? If it's C19, I asked, why is that Laura's sense of smell is heightened, and her sense of taste is heightened, not diminished. She didn't have an answer. I asked her if C19 (shouldn't we upgrade it to C22?) and the Flu had the same symptoms. She said they did, but the test came back negative for Flu and positive for the one we can't say without being sent to Big Tech Jail. REALLY? That's interesting. I asked if I could see the package that the test came from, I'd need the serial number and the lot number of the package. I asked  if I could have the chain of custoday right down to the signatures of the tech who took it to the lab, and the lab worker who ran the test. I asked her if I could also see the results so that I could read them myself rather than being told what they said.  Do you know, that after the nurse had stared at me for a good minute or so, the strangest thing happened next?

    The doctor assigned to her case came in to explain a few things, and he had with him a form that had the symptoms that Laura presented, as well as the symptoms that present for both the Flu and C. He mentioned that they were exactly the same, that the particular test he had ordered is not 100% accurate,  and that in fact, they've been experiencing a few false positives lately.   That's when he suggested that she be put on antibiotics and bed rest with fluids, Vitamin D3, and Vitamin C.  He added that she could take 10mg of Zinc too; it would help with the Flu. Oh, so it's not C19? It's the Flu? He stated they present the same, and the tests are often inaccurate. When I asked why they say it's different if it's the same, he shrugged his shoulders. No answer. When he left the nurse said they do what they are told to do. Yeah, I know that.

    Her doctor also ordered her another drug for nausea, but she didn't have any.  When I asked about the antibiotic he ordered as C-word is a virus, he said that the antibiotic was just a general for whatever could be lurking in her system that caused the white cell count to go up and give a false positive.  OK...yeah, so what I'm hearing is, if she had been vaccinated she would have had the Flu, but because we didn't answer, she had "IT", that was of course until I forced them to prove it, and they knew they couldn't.  THIS IS WHY I don't believe the numbers.  She had low potassium and a slight infection. These two things led to her dehydration. Done.

    If I had not been there if Laura had just gone in on her own, first, she may be dead in the waiting room, and then she would have accepted her diagnosis without arguing. She would have thought maybe she did have it, but maybe she didn't. Her throat was sore, and she had aches and a fever. No vomiting, no diarrhea, nothing to say C19 was definitive, just a virus, and antibiotics don't work on viruses, but they give them any way to cover their own ass when they purposely drive the numbers up to get the narrative straight.  I literally overheard the nurse tell another nurse that she hated her job because she hated lying to people. She saw me, she knew I saw her, she knew I heard her, and she said, "You know we don't have a choice, right? We have to say what they tell us to say."  I told her I fully understood but giving someone a diagnosis that is false is both unethical and malpractice. She said the test results said what they said. I asked her to prove it. She couldn't.  She said that's what they TOLD HER.  Of course, they did. Who pays the lab?

    All in all folks, the moral of the story is, I believe there is a thing out there called Covid. Laura and I had it in 2019-2020.  It was a different strain of Influenza and nothing more. They gave it a new name.  Laura was hospitalized with it before due to the dehydration component. We survived and have antibodies from it. It's just that Laura shouldn't be diagnosed with something, anything if she doesn't have it. People who are vaccinated shouldn't be worried about getting sick right? Isn't that what the whole vaccination promotion was all about?  (Did you know, that if she had C19 she couldn't have taken the Ibuprofen she had taken earlier in the day? It could have killed her. But she did take it, and she's alive, so there's that.) 

     All I'm saying is that doctors and nurses alike are being told to say things they don't want to say, but when they stopped doing that, the labs apparently don't really send up the paperwork, they just say yes or no, and they don't support their answers until and unless they are called upon to do so. An hour went by before the doctor came into the room for the last time to say it was probably the white cell count that threw off the test results - again, according to the lab without any documentation in hand.  Let that one go, she's causing problems. That's the takeaway.

    Stand up for yourself is the real takeaway. Stand up for your parents, for your kids, for your spouses, friends, and family.  It's not the poor nurse or the poor doctor who is to blame. It's not the average Joe who works in the lab either. It's the larger more dominant dictator of the narrative.  YES, there is a real virus out there and it is killing people, but there are so many ways to both avoid it, prevent the fear, and not be worse by taking unknown substances in our veins HOPING that they, the ones who really know the truth, but won't tell you, are actually telling the truth. Remember, for a Deceiver to be deceptive he or she must first know the truth so that they purposely lead you from it. When they have the power, the authority, and the education, we fall into the trap of trusting them. Don't.  READ and know what you need to know.

    Laura was released after having saline run through her until she gained color and was able to function. She was given a diagnosis (and yes, she said I could say so) of having been low on potassium and a slight infection, even though there was no evidence of that infection. She was treated and released. Her discharge papers say she needs bed rest, plenty of fluids, Vitamin D3, and Vitamin C, and it would be OK for her to use 10mg of Zinc every day to stave off any would-be viruses in the future.  I guess they don't want her using a horse dewormer. You'd have to know to know.

Be safe folks. FIGHT for what is right. 

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