As of last week, anyone in Calgary wanting an adult vaccination through AHS has to go to the Sheldon Chumir in the Beltline - no more convenient community clinics. This was apparently done to “improve access.” I just called about an MMR vaccine. First appointment is over 3 weeks away. The change is a failure on two fronts. #ABHealth#ABLeg
One of the children of the fellow that was placed at a Travelodge Motel in Leduc instead of a Long Term Care facility posted on Reddit looking for help.
This is absolutely sick. A man was discharged from hospital after a stroke into a hotel outside of town, claiming that an operator would deliver long term care.
Instead, he couldn't get himself to the bathroom, to his bed, and was only checked on daily.
The operator? Exists out of an address shared by other businesses. It's a shell company.
REMINDER: Calgary event on SATURDAY FEB 3 for #transRights
Via Progress Alberta:
In Calgary TOMORROW (Feb 3): Queer Citizens United (@QCUyyc) are organizing a rally to defend the rights and safety of trans kids. City Hall Municipal Building starting at 2:00pm. Speakers to include Alberta Teachers' Association's president Jason Schilling.
All Albertans wish that this support were available to women. But, alas, government support is not on our side because they don't have the vaginas for it.
Has anyone actually asked Shoppers pharmacists if they are comfortable diagnosing ill or injured people who would otherwise go to Emergency or a family doctor?
I was at a lab today and I'm sad to say that UNlike the past few months', today only a single technician was masked, and they weren't mine, alas.
Also: possibly weirdest-ever thing I've seen in a lab happened today. My tech put on fresh nitrile gloves, THEN wiped their hand down their scrubs as if to 'clean' them. Wiped the gloves along their decidedly not-fresh-that-moment scrubs.
"The [UCP's] failure to recognize and...respond to the fact that COVID-19 is airborne is negligent and misleading...Changes to Alberta’s Public Health Act allows politicians...to make the final decisions in public health emergencies."
Christmas is a mixed thing for me and this year was no different.
I learned (after a few beers with my parents) that my Dad had a heart attack scare in February. He presented at the local hospital and they sent him to Red Deer for an angiogram. No medical transport available, my Mom drove him.
Scans came clear but labs indicated markers for a clot.
He lost his GP in August (surprise) and it's been a battle since.
An ultrasound at some point found a 7cm cyst on one of his kidneys. AHS scheduled a CT... for APRIL.
No idea if it's cancerous, no idea what it is. But he's been waiting over nine months for this scan.
This is how broken our system is. Talking with a radiologist in Sherwood Park, he sits idle most of the day because the gov't won't fund scheduled CT scans to keep him busy.
Dad's also not on a list to operate to remove this cyst either.
I'm being let go from my work, put on part-time hours this month, and it took 1.5 months to book a CT scan for the last day of the month (not even in town, but at 8:30 at night in one of the surrounding hamlets out of the city).
I'm worried that I could find out I have cancer or something else, only days after my health coverage runs out. :(
I don't know about right now but I was in similiar circumstances some years' back & thought I couldn't get insurance. That was NOT true.
Then (presumably now also) you cannot be denied basic Blue Cross coverage re any pre-existing conditons in AB because Blue Cross is administering the social health benefits on behalf of the province. Apply for coverage ASAP and there should be a carry-over window between prior and new so you remain covered to at least a basic extent.
One of my elders is in hospital unexpectedly as of yesterday, already admitted and getting treatment. Was dx'd apparently with flu 'and not covid' but is in a ward that requires gowns, etc.
I won't be able to visit because they are ALSO requiring wearing a baggy blue mask (I will be denied entry with my elastomeric respirator).
Trust me, none of you EVER want this. Sure, you are likely to be eventually 'well' again but until then, coughing so hard you cannot intake breath and also vomitting will sap your will to live.
It's been ~10 yrs since someone shared this infection with me, and my vocal folds are still damaged, requiring daily warmups before I attempt to speak. Avoid at all costs!