UPLIFTING COVID 19 STORIES

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Please, notice I am opening this thread in the Lounge and not in the Politics forum, intentionally. Let's share the stories that inspire us and make us feel part of a loving humanity.

 

 

Kansas farmer hailed for mask donation receives honorary degree decades after leaving college

 

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[samhexum]

Let's share the stories that inspire us and make us feel part of a loving humanity.

 

I saw a story on the news a few days ago... I don't know where it was, but the mother of a six year old was in the hospital with Covid and ready to give birth. The six year old's first grade teacher took in the baby and is still caring for it... the mother is now home, but the 6 year old and father have now been diagnosed as positive.

 

Also this...

A happy coronavirus number... 104

 

This isn’t Ida Acconciamessa’s first rodeo.

 

The 104-year-old Brooklyn resident has lived through the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and both World Wars. Plus, she’s survived Stage 4 melanoma, two broken hips, an infection that affects the colon called Clostridioides difficile, and now, the coronavirus.

 

“She always used to say, ‘I was born under a lucky star.’ That was her mantra in life,” her daughter Barbara Senese, 77, told CBS News. “And you know what? To be able to get through this virus, those words often come to my mind.”

 

Senese and Johann Giordano, 75, have visited their mother every day at her residence at the Sheepshead Nursing and Rehabilitation Center until March, when the nursing home stopped letting in visitors. The doting daughters were forced to make their visits through their mother’s first-floor window, gloved and masked up for extra protection against COVID-19.

 

During a visit on March 26, their normally engaged mother didn’t seem like herself, and on April 4, the women received word that their mother had tested positive for the coronavirus. Acconciamessa’s symptoms began with a very bad cough before going “strictly downhill,” Senese said.

 

“We really didn’t think she was going to be able to pull through this,” Senese told CBS News. “She wasn’t even able to speak. She was lifeless.”

 

Although they expected the worst, they knew she was a “fighter” with “an underlying strength to conquer things.”

 

By April 24, Senese said the nursing home reported that Acconciamessa was doing “much, much better” and by May 1, she became “very chatty” once again.

 

Marco Perrone, a nurse at the facility where Acconciamessa battled COVID-19, calls her recovery nothing short of a “miracle,” considering the higher fatality rate among older Americans, especially in nursing homes.

 

The secret to longevity according to this perennial survivor? Stick to red. Senese said her mother was known to down a glass of red wine, plus a red McIntosh apple, every day until the age of 102.

 

Barbara Senese, 77, and Ida Acconciamessa, 104 Talk about good genes!

Edited May 6, 2020 by samhexum

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I posted about this when Cuomo talked about it at his daily briefing. He was genuinely moved by the gesture, but the entire time he was talking, he was fiddling with the mask in his hands. :eek::eek:

[CuriousByNature]

I saw a story on the news a few days ago... I don't know where it was, but the mother of a six year old was in the hospital with Covid and ready to give birth. The six year old's first grade teacher took in the baby and is still caring for it... the mother is now home, but the 6 year old and father have now been diagnosed as positive.

 

Also this...

A happy coronavirus number... 104

 

This isn’t Ida Acconciamessa’s first rodeo.

 

The 104-year-old Brooklyn resident has lived through the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and both World Wars. Plus, she’s survived Stage 4 melanoma, two broken hips, an infection that affects the colon called Clostridioides difficile, and now, the coronavirus.

 

“She always used to say, ‘I was born under a lucky star.’ That was her mantra in life,” her daughter Barbara Senese, 77, told CBS News. “And you know what? To be able to get through this virus, those words often come to my mind.”

 

Senese and Johann Giordano, 75, have visited their mother every day at her residence at the Sheepshead Nursing and Rehabilitation Center until March, when the nursing home stopped letting in visitors. The doting daughters were forced to make their visits through their mother’s first-floor window, gloved and masked up for extra protection against COVID-19.

 

During a visit on March 26, their normally engaged mother didn’t seem like herself, and on April 4, the women received word that their mother had tested positive for the coronavirus. Acconciamessa’s symptoms began with a very bad cough before going “strictly downhill,” Senese said.

 

“We really didn’t think she was going to be able to pull through this,” Senese told CBS News. “She wasn’t even able to speak. She was lifeless.”

 

Although they expected the worst, they knew she was a “fighter” with “an underlying strength to conquer things.”

 

By April 24, Senese said the nursing home reported that Acconciamessa was doing “much, much better” and by May 1, she became “very chatty” once again.

 

Marco Perrone, a nurse at the facility where Acconciamessa battled COVID-19, calls her recovery nothing short of a “miracle,” considering the higher fatality rate among older Americans, especially in nursing homes.

 

The secret to longevity according to this perennial survivor? Stick to red. Senese said her mother was known to down a glass of red wine, plus a red McIntosh apple, every day until the age of 102.

 

Barbara Senese, 77, and Ida Acconciamessa, 104 Talk about good genes!

Her mother looks good for 77, let alone 104.

[BSR]

Maria, the oldest woman in Spain at 113 years old, survives coronavirus

 

Get this, she never even had any symptoms! The staff at the nursing home tested her only because she was suffering from a urine infection. But she never developed a cough, fever, or any other symptoms. Although she is currently in isolation, her family is eagerly awaiting the lifting of the quarantine so they can start visiting her again.

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Northwell Health discharges 10,000th COVID-19 patient

 

Amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis as officials and individuals grapple with consequences and concerns and push for progress, Northwell Health announced a hopeful number, recently discharging its 10,000th coronavirus patient.

 

The New Hyde Park-based hospital system discharged the patient with a celebration, amid masked healthcare workers holding signs with rainbows and messages. One sign said “We Luv U” and another said “Here comes the sun” near a picture of the sun and a rainbow sharing one space, as healthcare workers showed appreciation to patients for their struggle — even as many others show support for healthcare workers.

 

“Based on the data we’ve seen, Northwell has treated more COVID-19 patients than any other health system in the nation,” Northwell President CEO Michael Dowling said in a written statement. “Crossing the threshold of 10,000 discharges represents a positive moment in this ongoing fight.”

 

The ritural was reassuring at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mt. Kisco, one of 23 run by Northwell, mixing relief, a sense of rebirth, and a reminder that, amid tragedy and loss, there are triumphs as well. And it was an opportunity to celebrate success and reinvigorate healthcare staff as well as celebrate an individual patient’s journey out of the hospital.

 

Northwell has cared for nearly 13,000 patients on Long Island, in New York City, and Westchester, nearly 20 percent of all COVID-19 patients hospitalized in New York State, according to the system.

 

And it has treated more than 41,000 COVID-19 patients including those seen in emergency departments, 52 Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care centers and physician offices. The healthcare system conducted about 52,000 telehealth visits as the Food and Drug Administration loosened regulations, allowing telemedicine to become a key tool amid the COVID-19 crisis.

 

Northwell hospitals added nearly 2,000 additional beds in less than two weeks after Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for hospitals to expand, increasing its hospital capacity by about 50 percent.

 

The system also oversaw clinical operations at the 1,000-bed field hospital staffed by Army clinicians at the Javits Convention Center in Manhattan and the 1,000-bed USNS Comfort Navy hospital ship that docked at Pier 90 in Manhattan.

 

While this ritual marked a hopeful milestone, the battle and the struggles continue for many patients and healthcare providers.

 

Northwell Health at the time of the release of the 10,000th patient a few days ago was providing care for 1,203 hospitalized COVID-19 patients, a still large number, but down 65 percent from the peak of 3,425 on April 7.

 

Northwell Health is the state’s largest health care provider and private employer, with 23 hospitals, nearly 800 outpatient facilities and more than 14,200 affiliated physicians.

 

The system cares for more than 2 million people annually and employs 72,000, including more than 17,000 nurses and 4,500 physicians.