She came to work in New York during the worst days of the pandemic. Now the ICU back in her home city is full.
My husband works, but he also has an internship for school, and I didn’t want him missing out on his future career to just go to work somewhere. I said, “I want you to finish school and focus on your internship, and I’ll just do anything [I need] to do.” I thought to myself, “What better place, if I’m going to go back to the ICU to help, than the epicenter of where it’s happening?” I needed to go and help where they needed it the most.I was assigned to a very small community hospital.
The hospital was being run pretty much by residents. There weren’t very many attending physicians with, you know, 15-, 20-plus years experience running around. And a lot of the things that people were saying, like, “OK, this new medication is great for COVID, or research currently shows that this has some success”—we weren’t doing any of that, at least in the hospital that I was at. Like proning, turning a patient on their stomach to get the lungs a break—they weren’t doing that as often.
I think there was also a lack of resources. We didn’t have the right equipment. They had an old pediatric unit, and we were opening it up as a COVID ICU. Whatever you find in the supply closet, you just have to make do with what you have. So we found a bunch of IV pumps. And we thought, “Oh my God, this is great.” But what we shortly found out a few hours later was that those pumps are set for pediatric patients.
[But] my first week at this new hospital, I did a terminal withdrawal on two different patients in one week. And they both had COVID. You’re used to dealing with death and dying and the grieving process, and you’re used to having these really hard talks with family, but when you do it so often, it gets even more stressful than you would imagine. But it hasn’t been as crazy [as New York] here in Houston, at least not where I’m at.
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