Texas Embalmer Shares Nightmare COVID Experiences: 'Unlike Anything I've Seen Before'

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'We get bodies out of ICU regularly, but not in the condition that these COVID bodies are in. They’re tremendously swollen.'

The author wearing his personal protective equipment. a Florida-based ICU doctor who broke down on CNN

, and we are seeing more bodies than ever before. Add COVID to that and we’re reaching a breaking point.Story continues Many of the people who were in the ICU were on ventilators, and they put adhesive patches on their cheeks. They can easily become septic and they drip that septic saliva on the sides of their faces and the skin in that area gets infected. We were literally receiving bodies with huge lesions on their cheeks or [patches that had gone] gangrene.

Seeing so many of these people who have passed away who shouldn’t have died in the first place and the husbands and wives passing within days of each other ― on top of just the mass volume ― is a lot to deal with. Although we try to distance ourselves professionally as much as possible while doing our jobs, it wears on us. There are a lot of us that definitely have some PTSD ― or just traumatic stress. It’s really, really hard.

 

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