EBOLA IS REAL!

The story I heard on CNN news had me livid last night.

When a hospital is so busy that they won't listen the

the history a patient is trying to tell me it makes

me sad to see just how far medicine has grown for the worst.

Let me line up the scenario:

(gotten from CNN website)

A GENTLEMEN ENTERS A PLANE WHERE

HE HAS BEEN IN AFRICA FOR SOME TIME. ON 9/19.

HE ENTERS OUR STATES WHEN HIS VOYAGE ENDS

IN DALLAS ON THE 20THE OF SEPTEMBER.

ON 9/24 HIS SYMPTOMS OF ILLNESS BEGINS.

ON 9/26 HE REALIZES THAT HE IS VERY SICK

AND BECAUSE HE HAS JUST COME FROM

AFRICA WHERE EBOLA IS RAMPANT HE

PRESENTS HIMSELF TO THE ER IN DALLAS

AND TELLS THEM HE JUST TRAVELED FROM

AFRICA. THEY DO NOT TEST HIM, THEY MAKE

NO CONNECTION BETWEEN HIS STATEMENT 

AND EBOLA…. PROTECTION PEOPLE!!!!

ON 9/28 HE IS STILL NOT BETTER AND KNOWS

HE MUCH FIND SOMEONE TO LISTEN TO HIM.

FINALLY HE GETS ACROSS THAT HE HAS BEEN

TO LIBERIA YOU KNOW AFRICA, WHERE

PEOPLE ARE DYING DAILY FROM THE DISEASE OF

EBOLA. FINALLY SOMEONE LISTENS AND THEY

PUT HIM IN ISOLATION AND ON 9/30 THE

MAN TESTS POSITIVE TO THE VIRUS AND IS NOW

IN POOR CONDITION.

People, medical people we need to listen to the patient.

If you cannot understand him, then get and interpreter for 

yourself. Now this man who tried his best to 

stay quarantined as best as he could, has now been 

around millions of Americans many children many elderly 

and just many Americans. We don't need this fear.

Things like this is why I love the small town hospitals

like my dear old "stomping ground" 

Lady of the Sea where patients are still listened to,

where everyone is treated the same and individually.

Where the staff is all family and the patient is the only 

one they care about. Our country is filled with small hospitals

like this that just don't get enough recognition or government

money to stay open. Thankfully our little LOS has

found a way to keep their heads above the water and

give the quality care they always have where the patient

is heard. Hoping the man with Ebola gets well and I pray

that not many will have been exposed in a way we have

a pandemic.

( I also wonder if this is a ploy by Africa to kill us off

but thats a whole other blog…lol)