Worked as a healthcare worker in a big inner city hospital throughout pandemic. Now, what to do with all this trauma?
The world is intent on understandably moving on from COVID. But I can’t get their faces out of my head.
Young adults, younger than me, begging me to save their life.
When there was no more body bags, we used plastic tarp and sheets.
Watching my beautiful co-worker nearly dying on the vent.
My adoptive grandfather dying on the floor below my unit from covid, as I had to continue working.
Working in full PPE for 12+ hours on the COVID unit or emergency room.
Running out of basic medical equipment and medications in a first world country.
I was hospitalized twice.
“It’s just a cold,” they say.
The general public has not the slightest idea of how it was. How it still is going. Frankly,
most people don’t care. So long as it doesn’t effect them personally. And perhaps it won’t, for now.
A domino effect is already happening. Healthcare systems in rural areas have collapsed.
Billionaires got richer during the pandemic while the rest of everyone else scrapes to survive.
… So now, what next? Everything inside of me feels broken. Never mind my trauma… I have no faith left in humanity or this planet.
The world is intent on understandably moving on from COVID. But I can’t get their faces out of my head.
Young adults, younger than me, begging me to save their life.
When there was no more body bags, we used plastic tarp and sheets.
Watching my beautiful co-worker nearly dying on the vent.
My adoptive grandfather dying on the floor below my unit from covid, as I had to continue working.
Working in full PPE for 12+ hours on the COVID unit or emergency room.
Running out of basic medical equipment and medications in a first world country.
I was hospitalized twice.
“It’s just a cold,” they say.
The general public has not the slightest idea of how it was. How it still is going. Frankly,
most people don’t care. So long as it doesn’t effect them personally. And perhaps it won’t, for now.
A domino effect is already happening. Healthcare systems in rural areas have collapsed.
Billionaires got richer during the pandemic while the rest of everyone else scrapes to survive.
… So now, what next? Everything inside of me feels broken. Never mind my trauma… I have no faith left in humanity or this planet.