Carroll County, MD CCG 24 News, 26 Jan 2022

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From YouTube: COVID Stories EP 2: Heroes of Carroll Hospital

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I was in the hospital again, you know my nurses again, the the respiratory therapist.

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Occupational therapist physical therapist, respiratory therapist, the techs, the nurses.

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You again, my only experience is at carol hospital, but I mean I know it's everywhere. You know, and I.

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Talked to those you know whatever children every time they would come in my room. I would thank them.

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You know they would draw blood. I would thank them because they would try not to take all the hair.

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Off my arm, you know, um and and every time I like thank them and they're like why we signed up for.

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This I'm like no, you didn't sign up for this. You signed up to care for people. You didn't sign up.

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For this this is dangerous. This is not fun, um you know, and I and so I told myself, I've got to do.

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Something because they gave me a second chance, so I told myself I have to do something for them.

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So while I was still in the hospital I got, I talked to my sister because I was like actually.

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Oh, let me back up so the day when they finally moved me up to the fourth floor. You know I'm still.

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In isolation, door's still closed and one day one of the nurses came in and she left my door open.

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And I said you forgot to close my door and she's. Oh yeah. I forgot she goes back.

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And she rips my cove inside off the door and I'm like. Are you serious? She goes yep.

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Door can stay open and I can actually see people's legs out there. I couldn't see a full body just all.

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The way my angle, but I could actually see people out in the hallway I was so excited.

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But I mean just just the care that I gave so I told myself I got to do something so I talked.

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To my sister lisa about I'm, like you know what I got to do so I came up with an idea of a gofundme.

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And of course, I had my phone and I actually created the gofundme on my phone and while I.

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Was in the hospital in six days I raised twelve thousand dollars and I told myself, I'm gonna use.

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Every single penny to do something: nice for them, because they're overworked they're, understaffed.

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They're stressed um it's they're miserable, I mean, but yet you know what they don't complain.

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They they do what they're supposed to do and and they they don't, have a choice. You know.

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But it's also it's their commitment to every single one of their patients.

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So I used that money and when I finally got out- and I and I felt like I was capable of going in.

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To see them, you know I had my oxygen tanks. My little I called my iron along my little cart.

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The way we went, but I did because I want to make sure I got all of them, so I did the respiratory.

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Therapist, where I did monday wednesday, friday and sunday to make sure that I got all the shifts.

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I did lunch and dinner for them each one of those days and then from there I did the ccu and and the.

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Imc, which is basically, I see the intermediate care, and I made sure that I got everyone um and.

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You would not have believed how something so simple made the world to them. You know.

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They were so tickled, you know when I walked into the ccu and actually seeing it from.

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Just a bystander's point of view is scary. You know walking past all those isolation, rooms and.

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Seeing those people in there and know what that's like. Oh and these nurses and these techs and these.

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Doctors deal with a day in day out every day they go in there and nothing changes. It's every bed is.

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Full and so for them to actually see me, I mean they cried so hard they're like we never see.

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This we never know what happens to you after you leave us. You know, and here you are walking in here.

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um And so I actually became friends when I'm on facebook and and so funny they they post stuff.

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And I, and I just posted, I said something one this morning about how either something like the cdc's.

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That says now: it's allowed you're allowed to drink on the job, and I and I that's one.

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Of those- and I said I'll bring it in for you and she replied, I know you would you know.

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But I raised all this money and like like my shirt, this is you know so once again,.

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As far as face down, which is called proning, this is what I did. You know basically saved.

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My life, you know so we had shirts made for the respiratory therapist department. You know and.

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Of course, that some of that money paid for these shirts, so they saved me one it's my favorite shirt.