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I haven’t posted in years but today we lost one of our own to COVID. He wasn’t old. He wasn’t frail. In fact he had been downgraded from the ICU just last week and was doing better. This weekend his body shut down. They intubated him and put him on ECMO. Last night they pulled him off life support.

I am so heartbroken for his children. For the men and women he was supposed to deploy with this month. For his brother and for our physician who was his friend and helped his family make the decision to let him pass peacefully.

And I am so angry too.

Angry because he wasn’t vaccinated. Angry because this shot and masks and COVID in general has become so politicized. That there is so much fear and misinformation. Maybe if it wasn’t he would have gotten the shot. Maybe he wouldn’t.

I will never know. But it won’t change the fact that a good man who dedicated his life to helping other people is gone now.

It won’t change the fact that there’s now a hole in our ER family and we are grieving while also carrying on caring for the people who didn’t believe COVID would get them. Carrying on looking into eyes full of fear as we tell them yes you have COVID and it doesn’t look good for them.

Eyes that I’m afraid look just like our coworker’s before they had to sedate him and intubated him during his last conscious moments.

#covid19 #nursing #nurblr #death #vaccine #er nursing

jonphaedrus

notre dame is burning.

this is ok.

it has happened before. it will happen again. it has been lost before. it will be lost again. and again. and again. and again. art and architecture are transient, and temporary, and 850 years may seem like a lot to the individual, who will live maybe 100 if they are very lucky and very healthy, but even the pyramids at saqqara have only existed for about 6000 years and that’s still not all that much, if you consider the grand scheme of things.

yes, this is terrible. as someone who is deeply religious and literally a professional historian with a focus on art and architecture, this is terrible. im mourning. im gutted. im horrified and upset and miserable. but.

it’s not over.

victor hugo wrote hunchback because notre dame du paris was in the process of collapsing and falling apart, and revitalized the entire world’s focus and love for this church, and that was not even 200 years ago. it led to it being renovated.

the roof has fallen in. the scars of fires are on its buttresses. the rose window has fallen out. the beams and piers have collapsed. the spire has toppled. the stones have suffered, and will suffer again, but it is not gone.

renovation work is essential. sometimes things collapse and burn and break and have to come back. it’s not a terrorist attack, it’s renovation, an accident, but we have so much evidence, history, carefully documented everything on one of the most studied places in the world.

it’s not the end.

johannesviii

Hey so, French person here. And also an ex History student. I’m here to say: Please listen to o.p. above.

Obviously everyone is shocked but here’s a few important key facts:

The roof is completely gone. Part of it dated back from the 13th century but the rest was from the 19th. The stone arch roof under the top roof is fine.

One of the three main stained glass rose windows has fallen out. Most of the other stained glass windows are okay.

The spire has fallen down and that’s the saddest part. BUT! It was in the process of being restored and the 16 statues that were there were removed just four days ago! So they’re fine.

The main structure is still here and nothing has “burned down” unlike what some people have been saying.

The “treasure” (sacred objects) is safe.

Notre Dame is still there. It’s just damaged. Almost nothing was lost today, and nobody was wounded either. It’s scary, but it’s gonna be okay.

thebraxiatelcollection

@alyona11 <3

#this is the attitude that so many of the french have #these scars will be another story of the cathedral #it is sad but this too shall pass and the lady will be restored to glory again

violetablood

15/04/2019 Notre Dame de Paris is on fire

#notre dame de paris #this is so heartbreaking #my thoughts are with the firefighters and people of paris

hydro-homies

A Good Old-Fashioned Midwestern Apocalypse

#midwest life #tornadoes i can handle #at least the ground isnt movinng under my feet

queenholocene-deactivated202211

you know you're a 90s kid when your vaccinations were mandatory and no one in your class got measles

#nursing #er nurse #vaccinate your children

copingnurse-deactivated20240217

#this #nursing #emergency department #er nurse

Two years ago I sat in this same seat, crying and ashamed of the decisions of so many Americans. Tonight’s election results weren’t perfect; there was disappointment. But there is also hope. Tonight the tide has turned.

#politics #midterm elections