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Even with increased capacity Sask has less than 150 ICU beds for the whole province and Canadian hospitals tend to run pretty lean even in normal times so it doesn't take much of a surge to overwhelm the system. Plus I expect that there are pockets with very low vaccination uptake.
But somehow I doubt that is what you really wanted to know sp19690.
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Saskatchewan has an 81% vaccination rate. So exactly why is the hospital there bursting at the seems with such a large percentage of the population being fully vaccinated? Perhaps the vaccines are not as effective as the claim thus the need for continuous boosters. Or the adverse events from vaccinations are sky rocketing. Or maybe people are so scared of covid that they are overwhelming hospitals for any symptoms they fear means they have covid.
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dear becky :),

sending lots of warm encouraging hugs to you!!
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I have a sore arm from my shots but feel fine. I'll be happy to get out of the hospital and moved.
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cw ...and then there is Saskatchewan with lowered restrictions and bursting at the seams hospitals. Hard to understand.
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I'm tired of jackasses pointing to the lack of pandemic restrictions throughout much of the USA as being desirable.
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Becky: Just checking in on you tonight. How are you doing? Praying for you.
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Becky, when I got my shingles shot it laid me out for a day. Hopefully it won't affect how you feel tomorrow...!
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Pam Z, Must be shot day. I got the shingles vaccine and my flu shot today.
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I got my pneumonia shot today, and that sucker HURT !! I have all the others so I think I am done for a few years!
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Somewhere Barb posted about the strange and over the top threads created lately. There have been plenty. Another thing I have noticed is some people creating threads are obviously looking and hoping to find different responses than they are receiving (their desired answers). Some will even try to challenge to a point, then POOF they are gone.
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Becky: I know that you'll miss your New England. I do as well. But you have a great, super attitude and I admire it. Hugs and love sent.💚
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Becky, glad to know that you're looking at this as a learning experience. My DH is ispired by your lack of self pity. I thank you for that.
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BOJ, I had two brothers, a niece and a nephew who did nothing to help. When my dad was critically ill for a number of months, they would even drive my mom after dark. And the hospital he was in part of the time was in a high crime area. I talked to my dad's doctor and had him admit my dad to a hospital in a better area. And they nothing but cause trouble when my mother was older.
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i'm thinking about our non-helping siblings...

i wonder...
mayyybe some of them - are - actually waiting for the elderly parents to die.

(i'm talking about elderly parents who're doing ok. i'm not talking about elderly parents who're in pain, towards the end, and for compassionate reasons you might think maybe they prefer to die).

i say this, because it's very weird how some of these bad siblings don't say, "thanks helping-sibling!! thank goodness you saved the situation! another emergency, you saved their life! i'm so relieved they're alive!!"

(please understand, a non-helping sibling might have hundreds of reasons why they don't show appreciation --- or why they don't express enthusiasm when their parents' lives are saved).

i'm saying that - some non-helping siblings - might be waiting for the elderly parents to die. in other words, no wonder they don't show appreciation or enthusiasm.
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Barb, I'd love to prove the surgeon wrong. We'll see how it goes. I have a bunch to learn in rehab. how to move from bed to chair, etc. This is the one time being on dialysis is lucky. One rarely has to pee. I talked to NH home I'm going to in Illinois about my dialysis. My tech has to go for some training at the NH even though she will be working for me and one other client.
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hugs, alibobali :).
i like being called "bundle" :).
or "bundle of joy" :).
it makes me smile every time.

i'm getting so used to it (i only use this name, here on the website) --- that now several times, while writing to my family/friends, i almost signed off, bundle of joy :). haha.

wishing us all a great day today!! :)
over here snow everywhere. i'll now roll down the hill into town.
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Happy Chinese New Year, all, and thanks for mentioning it, Bundle. I like reading about the CNY.

Geaton, it's a shame about the guy from your church.

Just an aside: My friend's mom with scleroderma died when I was 3 years out of high school -- 1996. It was bugging me because I remember her saying that she had already lived past her expectancy, and this was when I was a kid. She was 43 when she passed. She was obviously disfigured when she was 30-35yo, when I was closest with her. She had to drive with gloves on her round hands because they couldn't grab the steering wheel. She was an important person and figure in my young life. Golden, agree she was a good example of not letting disability or life expectancy get you down.

Just procrastinating here with this post and share. AC and memories of my cheer coach are much more fun right now than doing this durn school assignment. x
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glad - So sad about your former assistant. She did very well living as long as she did and being fun to be around.

ali -what a great example that gal was.
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Becky, I'm so glad surgeries are over and done with. Now to prove the surgeon wrong, I think!

I'm glad you're going to be near your son, although I know you'll miss Maine.

You postive attitude is an inspiration to me.
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Becky: Prayers that all goes well for your upcoming move.💛
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glad: You're very welcome.💟
I am sorry to hear about your assistant.
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Glad, sorry to hear about your assistant. It's really a testament to some people that they can live with something like that and just... keep living life day after day, with humor intact. When you said "fun," I thought about another lady I knew in my childhood who had scleroderma, my childhood bf's mom, who babysat for me often and drove me to and from school for awhile. She was disfigured, including her face, but had a great sense of humor about it. E.g., when she coached our elementary cheer squad, she would do the routines with us and joke and say, "You guys clap your hands flat, not like me." Her hands were rounded and stiff from the disease. She lived to about mid 60s, too. As you may know, autoimmune conditions are a leading cause of death for women under 60.

I've read some things about the particularly bad covid illness that happens in people with autoimmune diseases, and also how covid causes autoimmune conditions in people who weren't dx'd autoimmune before covid. Any increase in pro-inflammatory cytokines when there is already a long-term heightened immune response seems really detrimental. Rest easy, fun assistant. Thanks for remembering her here.
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Scleroderma is one of those diseases that can simmer away for decades or cause dramatic declines depending on what part of the body is affected. On the farm where I grew up there were two neighbours with totally different outcomes, one was a strong young man whose organs were attacked and he looked like a shrunken old man when he died, the other was a woman who mainly had skin and joint damage and she lived into her 80's.
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One of my former assistants passed almost a week ago now. She was only 68. She had underlying conditions a bit overweight, scleroderma (diagnosed 12 years ago). Obit does not state the cause. I bet the scleroderma with covid, there have been covid deaths in the past week. When she was diagnosed with scleroderma at that point she was given five years to live. She lived much longer.

She worked, in theory, until December 2020. She had nearly six months of PTO in her account that she used the last half of 2020. She then retired. She was great, a wonderful assistant and fun. She had been in that department for 15 years or so.
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Barb, Still in hospital. I had my second surgery yesterday. It went okay, but I had a few problems with anesthesia yesterday. My surgeon says I'll be in a wheelchair permanently. My son is here with me. He and his wife have found me a NH in Illinois about a mile from their house. I will after rehab there and then be able to move to the AL section in a small apartment. Her mother lives in the same AL so I'll have the advantage of knowing someone there. I hate to move to Illinois but I've always said I'd try not to be uncooperative about things when I got older. They've found me a dialysis tech for the nursing home there. So the big adventure to Illinois will start in about 10 days. My step DIL here in Maine is packing my stuff to move. Arrangements have been made for me a charter flight to Illinois.

My stepsons have bought my property in Maine. They wanted me to stay in Maine but they understand about my son and grandkids wanting me where they live. So a big adventure ahead.
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The sad thing is that so many people don't even recognize that they are one of the people at higher risk....
they're just a little overweight,
their high blood pressure is under control,
they've been able to mange their type two diabetes,
they've smoked so long they don't even consider that a health problem,
and a big one most people miss, they are over 60.
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Ugh, another member of our church passed from covid. He has been sick for several weeks, was hospitalized, seemed to be making a recovery and then the news yesterday morning. He was hospitalized for about 3 weeks. Late 50's, unvaccinated and overweight, not sure whether he had other issues as well. I'm pointing out these circumstances because those of you who are choosing against the vaccination AND you have other health risks are playing chicken with covid (because there's nothing to say that the original covid isn't still out there infecting people). He leaves a wife and 2 young adult sons. Breaks our hearts because it didn't need to happen...
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Becky, how are you today?
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dear everyone :) :),

happy chinese new year today!!! :) :) :)
1 february 2022 :).

year of the tiger.
that means year of strength, bravery and miracles! :) :)

let it be so.

bundle of joy :)
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