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Let me give you a different but similar perspective of the medical industrial complex. I was a nurse for 35 years, retiring in 2016. I loved my profession, loved mentoring and training new nurses to be the best nurses they could be and worked in about every aspect of nursing you can imagine. I started as a OB nurse and did that for about 15 years, then did some community health, taught at 2 different colleges, worked in clinical education at the hospitals and finally finished with deploying digital systems at the bedside. I traveled all over the country in that role and experienced healthcare in urban, rural, large hospital settings and small critical access facilities. Basically, policies and procedures remain the same whether it's a 400 bed hospital or a 20 bed hospital. You evaluate and stabilize on admission, develop a plan of treatment to restore the patient to the highest level of health they are able to achieve and begin a discharge plan so they can return to a safe environment once they leave the hospital. Their family and support system is consulted and part of the plan along the way. At least that's how it was when I retired in 2016. Every hospital has a patient bill of rights that outlines these things and should be able to produce them on demand. When the pandemic hit, a couple of things happened. First, the CDC and Fauci convinced the country that anyone with covid MUST be admitted to the hospital, especially those who were elderly or had comordibities or disabled. They forbid any early treatment, which would have lessened the symptoms of what really was no more than a typical flu, then once in the hospital, they prescribed a treatment that they knew was counterintuitive to restore the patient's return to health. So why did the doctors and nurses go along with it? Remember early on, they flooded some of the hospitals with patients while at the same time, staff were becoming sick with the virus so it was just horrific for everyone at that time. The fear porn they hoped to create was working. They were pulling pediatricians to work ICU who weren't qualified to do so, and they were just following the protocol that was on paper. All this was done for what? To put the fear of God into everyone to take the vaccine. Once the hysteria started to die down, and people started to figure it out, that's when you started to see the social media sights starting to censor anything about Covid, vaccines and the like. By now, they were mandating all the medical staff to take the vaccines, most who had already had the virus. All lot of them had also started to notice that the way they were treating patients didn't seem right, especially since they were all dying anyway. This is when you started to see the good medical staff, nurses and doctors leaving , protesting and getting fired and what was left were the staff who either had no choice because they were single moms or the truly evil ones who felt like it was okay to euthanize the ones who didn't take the vaccine or were old or disabled. So now that I got that out of the way, I'll tell you my story. My 38 y/o daughter got Covid the week before Christmas in 2021. I know you feel like your Grace was targeted because they felt like she had a special need, but I'm here to tell you they went after everyone. My daughter was an All American college athlete, had coached at a Division I college for 5 years, moved back home after she got married and decided to start a family and coached 2 different high schools to state championships and they still treated her like she didn't deserve to live. I had to take her into the emergency room on Christmas Day because she was having some difficulty with keeping her oxygen levels above 90%, even though she had been on medications a telehealth doctor had prescribed her for several days. I was hoping they would just order some home oxygen and steroids and we could go back home, but they diagnosed her with pneumonia and wanted her to spend the night for observation. We agreed if they would only give her IV steroids and oxygen. She told them up front she would not take Remdesivir or any other medication. After the 1st dose of steroids and a few hours on oxygen, she felt 100% better and was asking to go home. The doctor told her they would evaluate her in the morning and make a decision then. I was allowed to spend the night with her, which surprised me. The next morning when a new nurse came in, she opened the door to her room, told me in a stern voice I had to leave because she wasn't allowed visitors. I replied, "No, I've been here all night, and I'm not leaving until I talk with her doctor." The nurse slammed the door and about 5 minutes later, 4 security guards slammed open the door and told me I had better get up and go with them right that minute or they would call the police and have me arrested. I looked at them in shock and said, "Arrested? for what? I haven't committed any crime. I'm sitting here with my daughter who wants me to stay with her". To make a long story short, these thugs were acting like the Gestapo, threatening me, bullying me, it was ridiculous. My daughter was getting upset, so I finally got up and told her I was going home, but we would stay in touch by phone, text and Facetime constantly, and if I had to get an attorney I would. At that point it began to go downhill fast. The nurse came in and turned her oxygen up to 10 liters without any explanation. This would continue the rest of the day until she finally had her on 16 liters, even though my daughter wasn't short of breath. She was taking the oxygen off herself to get up and go to the bathroom. They would "forget" to bring her meals into her unless she called and asked for them. Then they started her on Remdesivir, even though she refused it, the nurse hung it anyway. But the worse were the comments the nurse said to her. "Yeah, you're on the highest level of oxygen we can give with the face mask right now, looks like we're heading to a vent sometime soon" or "You need to practice laying on your stomach, that's the position you'll be in when you're on the vent'. But the final straw was when the nurse had her turned over, she got down in her ear and whispered, "Too bad you didn't take the vaccine, then your son wouldn't have to grow up without a mother." This is the one that finally got the fight going in her. She called me sobbing and said, "Mom, you've got to get me out of here, they are going to kill me." So I came up with a plan. First, they had the monitor turned so she couldn't see what her oxygen level was. I told her she needed to get that fixed. It so happened her boss was best friends with the CEO of the hospital. I told her it was time to call him and let him know she had been trying for 2 days to get Respiratory therapy to bring in the nebulizer the doctor had ordered and couldn't get any response. So she did. Within 5 minutes she had 2 RT's in her room. One of them wanted to know why she was on such a high rate of oxygen. She told him she didn't know but she wanted it turned down. He immediately cut it to 8 liters, then turned the monitor around so she could watch it herself. They brought her a nebulizer. The nurses had never entered the order. And they promised to check on her at least once or twice a shift as long as she was in the hospital. It was a pivotal moment. The nurse had been telling her that her oxygen levels were running in the 70's and that's why she would need to go on a vent soon. In fact, her levels were in the 90's! So I told her we needed to start trying to wean her off the oxygen. I gave her instructions on how to do that, starting with 5 minutes at a time, and working her way up. Of course, the inner athlete in her, she pushed the boundaries right off the bat and when I talked to her a few hours later, she had left it off for 4 hours with no drop in her oxygen. At this point I told her if they attempted to give the Remdesivir again, to tell the nurse it was considered assault to administer a medication against a patients will and she would be reporting it to the police. That's exactly what she did and the nurse backed off and took it out of the room. We had decided she would be checking out AMA the next time the doctor came around if he wouldn't sign discharge orders. My son in law had already checked with the insurance company to make sure there wouldn't be any financial ramifications and there weren't. So, the next morning, despite some pushback from the doctor, she signed out AMA, came to my house the first night just more as a mental crutch than anything, had some oxygen at home for standby and after one day, she ran up and down my steps with no shortness of breath and then went home to her little boy, husband and puppy

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Your story is gripping. Thanks for sharing. I'd like you to share on Grace's website. You can copy and paste and send to us for posting: https://ouramazinggrace.net/Contact-Us-Share

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Another paradigm to confront: Oxygen is a malfeasant misdirect that has retarded our comprehension of mammalian physiology.

Dehydration is the tipping point for dis-ease.

The energy molecule: ATP is really a surfactant that aids water to move sub-stances like Na Cl Mg Ca across osmotic membranes. Nothing to do with oxygen.

Water is inert and never reacts, it is always the carrier. Water is an element. This is why it can cycle. Water is not H2O. (Think: two dry flammable gases do not combine to become a wet substance that puts out a fire)

We exist in the realm of water: air is the gaseous form of water. Watch water when it is stirred, bubbles emerge, this is air creation. The ocean waves are forming bubbles, so many bubbles they are white. Like clouds.

Orthostatic hypotension or dizziness on standing is a classic symptom of low blood pressure and low blood volume and dehydration.

Salt + water = hydration

Water follows salt.

Low salt consumption with any exposure to exertion or challenging heat/cold or stress etc further reduces salt reserves.

Dehydration or hyponatremia is a deadly emergency.

The adrenals respond to this with all their adrenocortical hormones not just aldosterone.

Chronic dehydration results in chronic adrenocortical response. This changes the kidneys state of ease (releasing sodium) to dis-ease (retaining sodium). And results in adrenal fatigue or adrenal hyperplasia.

Without adequate dietary salt, all stores of sodium are raided to maintain hydration, for example: muscles, joint capsules, bones all lose salt and therefore loss of muscle mass, joint cushioning, bone density results.

The body thrives in a fully hydrated state. Think about a baby versus the elderly - the marked change is hydration. The body is self healing in a hydrated state. This is why hospitals use the ubiquitous saline drip. Rehydration is their best tool.

The red blood cells carry salt + water. Nothing to do with oxygen or carbon dioxide. They are vessels carrying and distributing salt water.

The red light monitoring is checking for hydration not oxidation.

Dark RBCs are contracted and dehydrated.

Light RBCs are expanded and hydrated.

Monitoring the dark versus light RBCs calculates % of hydration.

The lungs rehydrate RBCs by adding salt + water to the alveoli capillary beds as they pass through, the RBCs are spongelike and soak up the salt + water, expanding and hydrating. The saline drip adds salt water to RBCs through venous exposure.

The topic of dehydration is occulted with the medical malfeasant mis-direct to oxidation or oxidative stress.

Re-program yourself to replace oxidative stress with dehydration and the SPELL is broken.

Hydration versus dehydration. Think slick versus sticky. For example: a chronically dehydrated brain is a sticky brain or a demented brain as the tide has gone out revealing plague.

And the eyes are a brain protrusion. Dry eyes are dehydrated eyes. Eyes give off moisture to their environment. Glasses fog from eye moisture. Eye performance deteriorates with chronic dehydration.

I explain why oxygen is toxic and kills in my article titled:

We breathe air not oxygen

It would be great if everyone understood why oxygen is not prescribed for breathlessness.

Instead it is primarily prescribed for the terminally ill.

Palliative care is not kind!

https://open.substack.com/pub/jane333/p/we-breath-air-not-oxygen?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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Jane, thanks for sharing this important information. All of our paradigms should be examined under the light of critical thinking, asking, 'why do I believe this?'

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While I agree we should be questioning everything, that post seems to me like those folks who deliberately troll important people and post absurdities on their social media so they can be dismissed as pure nutters.

Most of what was claimed above by "Jane" can be falsified with some simple, old-fashioned experiment and observation. E.g. performing electrolysis of water with two electrodes causes the water to become *two* distinguishable gases. Eventually all the water will become those gases. Thrn you can burn them together again to get the same quantity of water you started with. I believe water is two hydrogens and one oxygen because repeatable and observable chemistry can split them and recombine them to get the same quantity of each ad infinitum.

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The neat part of what's happening today is people are questioning everything. As I am waking up, the 'Santa Clause effect' ripples to everything I've been taught.

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Yes, I too have undergone the Exile of my false beliefs. But we must be circumspect as to how we reform our psychological and spiritual superstructure. As you so rightly point out, the world is filled with false dichotomies, rightly named "devil's choices" because his hand of evil is behind them both (like repentance-free 'new medicine').

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Agreed.

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