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While covid (or the covid spike toxicity) no doubt is playing a role in the background, most is just a hospital system that already stretched. it might be not

While covid (or the covid spike toxicity) no doubt is playing a role in the background, most is just a hospital system that already stretched. it might be not evident to people further afield, but a lot of aussies don't like to travel an hour or two to a larger hospital's A&E, put up with the long lines of people waiting, along with the waiting room being a crowded space just full of nasty bugs -- it's no hard question why people are making the mistake presently to avoid getting early treatment. So many "smaller medical issues" are on a huge backlog ... the problem is not the present Federal or State govt fault wither, penny pinchers had been busy many many years before, that wave of BS was still being dealt with before covid arrived to make a hard situation worse. If "someone" fixes it so all the hospitals have capacity, eventually the next penny wise pound foolish crowd will rip it out again. I speak as an idiot who in Feb 2020 got the start of a lot of strange symptoms which I now recognised were probably covid-19, after a bit of man flu, BAD chest pains, breathless, could hardly pick my feet up coupled with very sore hips, which progressed couple weeks later to hypoxia for what felt like months but was only 3 weeks, red spots on skin, I noted I seemed to be bruising myself while I slept or somehow the day before without realising, hand numbness. Feeling a bit better a month after that getting a cut while walking in the bush, wrapping it with my shirt and continued, but getting home after I felt not too much blood would end up on the floor of a vehicle which wasn't mine, noted it still had not clotted after about 4 hours though it did congeal in the shirt and the shoe. Both the Bad chest pains and cut were something which I should have ventured to A&E to get treated ... in both instances I was stupid and opted not to bother my local hospital. I still haven't to date, as they're still a bit swamped and obviously the time to go was both times something was serious and I might not have waited for a few hours. My chest pains have eased but I know at some point I need to get it checked out.

sterlind 4y ago
Good grief. Don't mess around with vascular symptoms like that. Though I'm not one to talk, I once waited out my legs going paralyzed (I got better! ..mostly.) It's saddening to hear that Australia's hospital system is overloaded like the US's. Nurses are burnt out and leaving in droves, and we're not even giving them a raise. I'm amazed how little emergency workers seem to be valued after a major emergency.
- anenefan 4y ago
  Legs paralysed ... nerve / spine damage, B12 or other? I'd like to think if that happened I'd got medical help but I have a history of ignoring really bad problems. Yep, unfortunately when one is suffering, thinking smart isn't the first reaction. I could write a few pages on how stupid I've been the last couple of years in regard to my health - the cut leg writes like a comedy, but here I am, still waiting for the local hospital to settle and covid related problems to pass. Some people like to think it's gone away, but driving my Mother down to the very same local hospital today so that can take blood for bloodwork, she missed out, it closed early due to a current staff shortage, no doubt they were off sick, there's a fourth or fifth wave on the go in my locale. The hospital system is basically free here, and there's a certain proportion of the "but I have to pay lots of taxes" crowd who don't like money wasted on less fortunate people, and they've got a friend in a certain political party -- as such most hospitals, spend a term or two where they have been weighted down so it's almost enough, but not quite enough. The Federal govt control the purse, and with the pandemic arriving in 2020, you'd think the first thing would be to ready the medical troops. Sadly the Fed bunch were unequivocal boneheads. When eventually in 2021 they forced my state's hand, the Fed bunch outright refused more hospital funding. No worries though, the public let them know at the next election, they got voted out, they keep on losing subsequent state elections as well ... and are "stumped" as to what they did wrong ... lol.

sterlind 4y ago

Good grief. Don't mess around with vascular symptoms like that. Though I'm not one to talk, I once waited out my legs going paralyzed (I got better! ..mostly.) It's saddening to hear that Australia's hospital system is overloaded like the US's. Nurses are burnt out and leaving in droves, and we're not even giving them a raise. I'm amazed how little emergency workers seem to be valued after a major emergency.

anenefan 4y ago
Legs paralysed ... nerve / spine damage, B12 or other? I'd like to think if that happened I'd got medical help but I have a history of ignoring really bad problems. Yep, unfortunately when one is suffering, thinking smart isn't the first reaction. I could write a few pages on how stupid I've been the last couple of years in regard to my health - the cut leg writes like a comedy, but here I am, still waiting for the local hospital to settle and covid related problems to pass. Some people like to think it's gone away, but driving my Mother down to the very same local hospital today so that can take blood for bloodwork, she missed out, it closed early due to a current staff shortage, no doubt they were off sick, there's a fourth or fifth wave on the go in my locale. The hospital system is basically free here, and there's a certain proportion of the "but I have to pay lots of taxes" crowd who don't like money wasted on less fortunate people, and they've got a friend in a certain political party -- as such most hospitals, spend a term or two where they have been weighted down so it's almost enough, but not quite enough. The Federal govt control the purse, and with the pandemic arriving in 2020, you'd think the first thing would be to ready the medical troops. Sadly the Fed bunch were unequivocal boneheads. When eventually in 2021 they forced my state's hand, the Fed bunch outright refused more hospital funding. No worries though, the public let them know at the next election, they got voted out, they keep on losing subsequent state elections as well ... and are "stumped" as to what they did wrong ... lol.