KidDoc said:
eric76 said:
I had some bad news last night. My oldest brother is in a nursing home in Oklahoma and is expected to live maybe 7 to 10 more days.
The nursing home does allow visits from family to those who are dying, but there are a number of standard rules in place on it including you can't have been exposed to anyone with covid-19 in the previous 14 days (i.e., if you should be in quarantine). I'm going to have to call the nursing home today and ask about those who had covid-19 during the previous 14 days.
His wife is in the assisted living section of the nursing home. I wonder if she'll be able to go to the funeral at all. Her memory of new information is very short term so I don't know if she will even remember it.
For what it's worth, my oldest brother is so out of that he wasn't really aware of me whenever I visited him earlier this year. I think he only recognized me once. A few years ago he had encephalitis as a result of West Nile Virus and spent a couple of months in a coma. That really screwed him up bad.
Wow west nile enchephalitis- super rare that is some bad luck. Sorry to hear that is he having a hard time.
Thanks.
On the farm, my niece's horse died from West Nile Virus when it first hit the area. Also, some horses across the south fence from the farm also died from West Nile Virus about that time.
I also know someone in town who had West Nile Virus, but nothing approaching encephalitis -- it took him a year to recover. A couple other people from the area have told me that they had it as well, but I don't remember who that was.
It seems that we get everything around here. One year, there was a case or two of hantavirus a few miles to the north in Oklahoma, a case of tularemia to the east in Canadian, and bubonic plague to the south in a prairie dog town near Lake Meredith.
Regarding the bubonic plague in that prairie dog town, it turned out that they were catching prairie dogs and relocating them to Colorado, thus exporting the plague to Colorado at the same time.
About that same time, one of the area vets stuck his arm down the throat to retrieve the barbed wire that he thought the cow had swallowed. He said that as he he was reaching into the throat, he suddenly realized that the cow probably had rabies. It did and he had to get yet another round of rabies vaccinations.
We've also had diptheria on the farm, but in only one steer. My oldest brother and I spent a couple of weeks or so giving the steer some kind of medicine intravenously in its neck twice daily. Neither of us were very good at finding the veins and hitting them with the needle.