08-20-2020, 12:39 PM
My wife and I are still doing well. We just got back home from a vacation staying in Vegas and Utah. We wore cloth masks when walking between our units where we stayed and our car, but put on the N95 masks when out in public places with other people around. She is issued the N95's when she works at the hospital, and they are replaced after each shift so she brings her mask home rather than throw them away.
We just didn't trust being where masks are not regularly worn by the people around us. The N95 masks protect us and the people around us from any germs we might have. The downside is that they are more difficult to breath with. Also if left on long enough, they can leave painful red marks on the face!
She has helped other nurses with putting lotion on their faces after a shift where the masks were chafing their faces.
About 30 of the other nurses in the hospital have gone out with covid19 the last she heard about two weeks ago. So far none of the nurses or doctors that caught it at the hospital where she works have died, but many of the nurses that have gone off with it, discover that when they try to come back to work, they are physically unable to work due to exhaustion. They work a partial shift and need to go home and take more time off!
In addition to all of the other unknowns about this disease are long term after effects.
We just didn't trust being where masks are not regularly worn by the people around us. The N95 masks protect us and the people around us from any germs we might have. The downside is that they are more difficult to breath with. Also if left on long enough, they can leave painful red marks on the face!
She has helped other nurses with putting lotion on their faces after a shift where the masks were chafing their faces.
About 30 of the other nurses in the hospital have gone out with covid19 the last she heard about two weeks ago. So far none of the nurses or doctors that caught it at the hospital where she works have died, but many of the nurses that have gone off with it, discover that when they try to come back to work, they are physically unable to work due to exhaustion. They work a partial shift and need to go home and take more time off!
In addition to all of the other unknowns about this disease are long term after effects.