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Old Oct 06, 2021, 06:10 AM
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I wanted to share this for those that have any doubts. my mother was twice married and twice divorced. So my brother is my half brother.
My stepfather is from Texas. And that is where my brothers grandfather lives. He wasn’t quite QAnon but he did not believe in a lot of general facts about Covid, Vaccines, or masks.
He owns a cattle farm. So of course he was taking ivermectin. On 9/11 he went to a classic car show crowded full of people.

About four days later he started to feel unwell. he started to feel like he had the flu or a bad cold so he went to a his doctor. He tested positive for Covid and do you know what his doctor prescribed for him? Hydrochloriquin.

He could barely get off the couch for nearly 2 weeks. His daughter, my brothers half sister, finally convinced him to go to the hospital because it sounded like he was having problems breathing. He went to the emergency room and they admitted him right away.
They had him hooked up to everything minus a ventilator.
His daughter talk to the nurse the next day and the nurse asked her if she wanted them to do everything they could to keep him alive or make him a do not resuscitate. She indicated she wanted them to do everything. so they told her if she wanted them to do everything he was being immediately intubated and put on a ventilator.

I can’t get into all the technical jargon because that is nurse stuff that I don’t understand but all sorts of levels were out of whack, bloodwork, kidney function, all the stuff. Thankfully my brothers sister has been putting my brother on the phone to talk to the doctors and nurses because he knows their language. needless to say it is not looking good. In fact a night or two ago they called them and said they didn’t think he would make it through the night. But he managed to.

His prognosis is not good. He basically could die at any moment and probably will.
Which is a shame because his father is such a ****. His father is such a jerk that he actually left a voicemail stating did that piece of **** die yet?

He is a younger grandfather because he had his son when he was very young. And he takes care of 48 head of cattle so he’s very busy and active.
At one point my brother sister held the phone up to his ear even though he was knocked out so he could have some words of peace.

My brother is a combination of sad and furious. Furious because his grandfather is one of the thousands that he has dealt with that do not believe the virus is real, do not believe in the treatments work, and are busy using the Internet to diagnose themselves and treat themselves with horse paste.

And don’t even get me started on the hydrochloriquin. A medical professional prescribing a lupus drug that has not been proven to be helpful and even proven to be harmful to treat Covid is beyond me.

My brother is helping her sister understand what the nurses and doctors are saying. This hospital is so rinky-dink there’s only a doctor there part time and the nurses handle the brunt of it.

His oxygen keeps getting bumped up oh, and he had a heart attack while he was sedated. Probably due to the fact that he had the hydrochloriquin or just the general stress on his heart.

Think about it for a minute he was admitted to the hospital roughly a week after 9/11. And this past Friday he was put on a ventilator and intubated.

My brother and sister made him DNR. Who knows what kind of quality of life he will have if he wakes up. But the longer you are on a ventilator the less likely you are to wake up and the less likely you are to not experience complications. Not to mention long-haul Covid which nobody wants.

He has been estranged from his son my brothers father. Unfortunately my brothers father had such a drug problem that I really feel he has brain damage, bitter, angry and a little crazy.
They actually had a restraining order put on my stepfather because he kept threatening to come to the farm and “take what was his quote. In fact we are not even sure how he or the grandfather sister found out about him being sick unless the grandfather told him before he was severely ill. Because I think they’re looking at dollar signs.
The grandfather has minimal rights because it’s taxes. So he gets royalties paid every month based on the oil drilled out of the ground and whatever else there is in the ground that’s considered minerals
My brother was under the impression that everything was left his sister, but his sister thinks everything was left to the both of them so who knows because it’s not the priority. It is a slow painful waiting period.

It is a slow painful death no matter how much morphine they are giving him. He can’t communicate if he hurts so they just have to make assumptions. Yet they don’t want to suppress his respiratory system. I’ll share all of this with you in case there are people out there who don’t believe in masks social distancing or vaccines. All it would’ve taken was a mask at the car show. He lives in a small town and spends so much time on his farm his likelihood of getting involved with people in close contact with minimal. But then he went to a car show which really should be considered a super spreader event.

And he was very healthy. Very active. You have to be if you’re rounding up cattle.

Make no bones about it he will die and soon. My brother is going to be devastated. Because out of that side of the family other than a sister the grandfather is the only one to talk to him because he’s gay and his father has issues with that among other things.
He didn’t believe in vaccines so he wasn’t vaccinated.

He didn’t really believe in Covid which is why he was taking ivermectin.
And if doctors are busy prescribing hydroxychloroquine out there it makes me question their medical degree. Study adversity has shown its ineffective and possibly dangerous. Please get vaccinated. Please wear masks even in places that don’t require them. I wear one anytime I’m in a store, Office, or anybody really.
This ignorant man is going to die because he believed misinformation, the right wing media, and whoever he’s surrounded himself with. Because we all know peer pressure of any kind is hard to resist. People always think it’s just somebody on TV that has this happened to them. But this drug close to home. And otherwise healthy man an active man is dying of Covid right now. All because he went to a car show with no mask. I don’t know if it was indoors but I suspect it was outdoors.
I welcome your thoughts and your contributions to this thread.

On top of all of that my brother and other nurses are getting fed up and sick over people refusing all of these interventions and getting sick and dying.
My brothers aunt had to wait 18 hours to get a bed in ICU because they were full of Covid patients. How can an emergency room treat trauma patients if they’re busy pushing oxygen and ventilators? Feel free to share what you will.

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