Cheryl Barnes, who has diabetes, tells IowaPublicRadio she has nothing left to eat but bread after Monday's deadly derecho storm. “I know my blood sugar has been high, so I have to be extremely careful.”
The power outages are so widespread and persistent in Linn County that both the county and the city of Cedar Rapids have opened shelters where residents can charge their medical equipment. That should come as a relief to Michelle Jensen and her patients. As president and CEO of CarePro home health service, she says it’s been a struggle making sure her patients get enough oxygen and the power to run their machines.
Some patients and their families have left Cedar Rapids for hotel rooms in nearby cities, if they can. He and his neighbor Robin Edwards say they spend a lot of time these days sitting out in the yard, hoping for more electrical workers to come by, more snow plows to clear the tree debris from the streets.
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