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Show Volume XXVII Issue I The Ogden Valley news Page 5 May 15, 2020 Woman Injured in the Middle Fork Area Airlifted to Ogden Hospital On Saturday, May 2 Engine 65 from Huntsville and MA65 received a 911 call from a male individual who was horseback riding with A female in the Middle Fork area of unincorporated Weber County. The female had been bucked off the horse and landed on a rock. Upon hearing this information, additional units were dispatched to the scene including Battalion 61, Engine 62 from Eden, Air Med, Weber County Sheriffs, The Department of Natural Resources, and search and rescue. After a search of the area, Weber County units and DNR officers determined that the patient was to the north west of the parking lot. This is a very rough area, difficult to get vehicles into. Air Med then flew over the area locating the patient and obtaining the GPS coordinates for ground crews. Ground crews, along with the flight medics, made it to the patient. The patient was assessed and determined to have sustained significant injuries to her back. She was packaged and taken approximately 200 yards down the mountain to the awaiting helicopter. The patient was loaded and flown to McKay Dee Hospital. Nurse from Ogden Valley Adds Assistance to Overwhelmed Medical Teams in New York On May 9, 2019, while working at Ogden Regional Health Center, Addie won the Daisy Award— Recognizing Extraordinary Nurses. DAISY is an acronym for Diseases Attacking the Immune System. The DAISY Award was established by the DAISY Foundation in memory of J. Patrick Barnes who died at 33 of ITP, an auto-immune disease. Addie Jensen Pippin left her family in Utah on April 23 and headed to NYC to join forces with the nurses there to help with the COVID19 pandemic. She has been assigned to a hospital with 350+ patients on ventilators. She is facing this head on with many others in such a selfless way. On her Facebook page on May 4, she wrote “Yes, yes it is and it was as bad as the media has portrayed in New York. No, it has not been dramatized; it makes us all scared or invokes panic and fear. “Being here in New York for two weeks, I’m going to attempt to explain my perspective of the situation. I apologize in advance if I ramble and hop around a bit. “I’ve been working at NYU for two full weeks now and it’s still hard to fully grasp what the hospital staff experienced in the first few weeks of the pandemic. Patients were swarming the hospital, most of them only needing minimal support upon arriving to the hospital but rapidly declining and becoming critically ill, on ventilators and multiple IV drips to keep their blood pressure up. The critical care units began to overflow and the hospital started adding ICU’s to every viable space. Intermediate care units were transitioned to ICU’s, then the PACU’s became inpatient ICU beds, they were putting four to six intubated patients in operating rooms. The cardiac cath lab is an ICU, and eventually a conference room was modified into a makeshift 16 bed ICU. “If you imagine… all of the temporary ICU’s, the specialized equipment needed for critical care, the surplus of supplies and equipment needed to run each of these units, and the lack of an organized system to store all of these needed supplies. Add the logistics of a pharmacy, being able to get the critical medications and controlled meds needed in most intubated/ ventilated patients. Now realize that COVID19 patients’ need to be in negative pressure rooms, most units in the hospital let alone these impromptu ICU’s, so they all have big industrial-grade fans/air filters running continuously (and they are loud). This is all exacerbated by the fact that most of these units are ‘open units,’ meaning that its one big open room with all the patients in it, so the caregivers have to be in full PPE the entire time they’re in the room i.e. no sips of water, no coffee, no snacks, all conver- sations happen with an n95 and full face shield on (over the roar of the industrial grade fan and monitor/ventilator/IV pump alarms). Oh and don’t forget about always having gloves, gown, and head cover on. Just being in this environment for 12.5 hours is straining and exhausting, then add caring for critical patients on top of all the environmental stressors. “During the first wave, ICU nurses were spread thin and dispersed to the multiple makeshift ICU units, required to take three to four critically-ill patients that, under normal circumstances, would be a 1:1 or a 1:2 (one nurse/two patients) work load. Medical/surgical nurses who had never worked with ventilated patients or vasoactive medications were now having to take these types of unstable patients. Respiratory therapists were experiencing unheard of patient loads. “Physicians that haven’t been in intensive care units since residency were now managing critically-ill patients. So many hospital staff members had to take on new rolls and adapt to the hour-to-hour changes taking place in the hospital. (My fellow healthcare workers can empathize with PPE rules changing multiple times a day, visitation rules changing constantly, and just trying to stay up to speed on each change). “People stepped up, healthcare workers worked grueling hours with no breaks, assuming rolls that needed to be filled, the community started supporting the healthcare workers, outside help came—nurses, respiratory therapists, physicians from all over the country and, finally, the number of daily admits started to level off, the curve started to flatten. Don’t let me fool you into thinking everything is better now; now it’s just manageable. The impromptu ICU’s are still full of patients, we are contending with patient-deaths daily, and we continue to get new admits everyday…. “With all the challenges, emotional stress, mental and physical fatigue, and heartache that I have experienced, I do not regret my decision. I am thankful that I am here able to help.” Addie is a wonderful mother and friend to all who know her, as well as being a wonderful nurse here in Utah. Addie is the daughter of Greg and Shauna Jensen of Eden. We salute all the doctors, nurses, and other medical staff working across the nation to combat and aid COVID-19 and its casualties. The Hummers are here! Feeders are bee and wasp proof. Glass bottles won’t leak or drip. 32 oz. Feeders $16.99 Workshop: Fiber Dying with Dyer’s Woad Dyer’s Woad is known to most of us in Ogden Valley as an invasive, toxic plant. True, it is not a native plant and it does cause problems in pasturelands. However, it was brought to Utah for a reason—because it is a way to dye fiber. There are chemicals in the leaves of dyer’s woad that are precursors to indigo. With simple processing of the leaves, those chemicals are turned into indigo and a fibers (wool, yarn, linen) can be dyed into a beautiful blue color. Mountain Arts and Music has perfected this process, and will be holding a workshop to teach participants how to use dyer’s woad as a dye. The workshop will be held Saturday, May 16 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The cost is $25/person and includes all supplies and a small lunch. Participants will harvest the plants, process them into a dyeing vat, and dye the fibers they bring. The entire workshop will be held in Liberty and will be entire outside, where participants will practice social distancing. It is a very fun and magical process and we encourage you to sign up. In order to have enough supplies, please RSVP by Wednesday, May 13 at mountainartsandmusic@gmail.com or call 415-722-5824. When you RSVP you will receive details on the location and what to bring. As we are gradually opening up, we hope to provide several more workshops in the near future. In the meantime, challenge yourself to create… it will do a lot of good for your mood! Memorial Day Tradition at Valley Cemeteries to Continue Amidst COVID-19 By Becky Wood Attention Valley residents, the traditional Memorial Day Services, which are annually presented by our beloved American Legion, local Post 129, will be held (in spite of recent shutdowns) this Memorial Day 2020 at each of the four Valley Cemeteries on Monday, May 25 at the following places and times: Liberty Cemetery 9:00 a.m.; Eden Cemetery 10:00 a.m.; Eden Mountain View Cemetery 11:00 a.m.; and Huntsville Cemetery 12:00 p.m. Considering the postponement of many meaningful events this year because of COVID19, this will be a landmark service of hope and optimism, and all are invited to attend in order to honor the graves of United States veterans and their selfless contributions to our freedom, which blesses all Americans and the Republic “for which we stand.” Memorial Day, formerly called Decoration Day, was instituted during the Civil War when people started laying flowers on the graves of fallen soldiers in Gettysburg for both the Union and Confederate men who died in this famously tragic battle. The practice of honoring the graves of veterans in this manner was then quickly adopted in other states and later became an official federal holiday by an act of Congress in 1971. Please join your fellow citizens in this important public show of gratitude, respect, and patriotism where Ogden Valley residents never forget the sacrifices of our fallen warriors, members of the American military, and the fearless theme they live and die by: “This nation will remain the Land of the Free only so long as it is the Home of the Brave.” A peaceful Memorial Day 2020 to all! Shown is Suzanne Ellison Ferre, from a previous year, speaking at the annual Huntsville Cemetery Memorial Day service presented by the American Legion Post 129. |