Showing posts with label fatalities from lack of oxygen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fatalities from lack of oxygen. Show all posts

Sunday, December 8, 2019

Eskom Fucks with the Neurons in my Brain

We may not be the only country that is load shedding electricity in the world, but we must be the dumbest of them all.  
The excuses that are used by Eskom or the ANC/government are plentiful, from not enough coal to wet coal.  Their excuses are now accepted with a shrug of a shoulder because they are as insightful as the reason for the big swimming pool at Mr Zuma's home is in case there is a fire. 

 Load shedding?  It's a total fucking black out and fuck the PC name.  Load shedding sounds closer to taking a dump or having a shit.  They kind of go together and it is all a load of bullshitting the masses from those who sit in their very wealthy positions looking down on us plebs ... arrogantly thinking we are going to swallow any bullshit about their cockups as the truth. 

 And this f*&%ing load shedding crap is getting on my used to be tits - what about those who are dependent on oxygen and therefore dependent on electricity? I was going to leave just a few words of sarcasm on my FaceBook page  .... but my ire got the better of me and I had to say it - This is a clusterfuck cuntree. (A kingdom is ruled by a king and a country is ruled by a c%$t)    We still have freedom of speech, don't we? Fuck all those who are in positions of power and they just don't cut it - because they have been promoted beyond what they are capable of doing and then there they sit - another department screwed.  How can I say I am proudly South African.  It is an embarrassment!!

 OXYGEN THERAPY - per kind favour of google:    Anything between 92% and 88%, is still considered safe and average for someone with moderate to severe COPD. Below 88% becomes dangerous, and when it dips to 84% or below, it's time to go to the hospital. Around 80% and lower is dangerous for your vital organs, so you should be treated right away.    And these F%#$ING tossers have regularly put my saturation levels as low as 40.   They are killing off my brain cells and destroying the swearing filter.  

 They seem to find more and more ways of killing us off.   I would be dead without that generator Patrick just bought with money we don't have.  How many people have DIED from their LOADSHEDDING???? 

 Here is a joke for those who want to live but are dependent on oxygen and therefore on oxygen for their machines .... The Constitution ..... We have the right to life.  We pay for our electricity UPFRONT and then they decide when we can use it.  It is taken away from us without our permission  - is this not theft on a grand level? 

 The MOTHERFUCKERS don't even tell you the correct time they going to switch off the electricity so no one is prepared .... it takes time to start up a generator and get plugs changed so that one can keep on breathing ... and every second feels like an hour ... and you are screaming inside that you want to die ... and you have never felt such suffering ... it is indescribable ... that time without sufficient oxygen.

Thursday, November 7, 2019

It should be a CRIMINAL OFFENCE to load shed Electricity - people die!!

Port inserted into the heart to access veins that no longer work. 
What a night with a 4-hour power outage. We changed onto the inverter and put the portable oxygen on. The inverter is not strong enough to last the 4 hours so .... fortunately Patrick left me sleeping and I only woke around 3.30 am, battling to breath with my whole body on fire. I was in hell itself and would have died if I had not had some training from Shaun January who visited me at home the night before because I was too ill to deal with doctors at ER or Specialists who know nothing about my disease. I have been down that road too many times where my symptoms are dismissed because they are not typical or normally sick people. The joys of having a rare disease.
Remember Dr January is the only doctor who knows a lot about my illness but who does not have an agreement with Discovery because they did something illegal, Dr January took them to court and he won and Discovery refused to honour any of his claims since then. So, I get him when I am desperate because I have to pay for him and the medication without being able to claim it back. Sometimes I have to see two Doctors because the medication is so expensive that I see another GP and ask him to write out the same prescription as what Dr J had given me. That way Discovery pays for the medication that was first prescribed by Dr January.
The reason for my lesson the previous night on what to do when I run out of oxygen was because I was alone at home and had to take the oxygen off to open up for the doctor. By then my SATS had fallen so low that Dr Jan had to help me back to bed, put the oxygen on me, hold my hand and tell me not to move or talk and to breathe in 3 through the nose and six out the mouth ... and try not to panic. He then prescribed SL fast-acting tranquilliser because he said that struggling for breath puts you into a panic (which was happening) and that would make all the symptoms worse. Lack of oxygen is fatal. You die.
And last night I had the tranquilliser and lay still and quiet while Patrick held my hand. Eventually, God, Eskom, the municipality or the ANC - whoever, came to the rescue and returned our power that should be a criminal offence to turn off, especially for those whose lives depend on power for oxygen. It took an hour of medical interventions such as IVI Solucortef and nebulizing and pills and ivi pain medication before I settled. Damn this country for not even being able to give us the power that we pay for upfront. #fuckeskom #fuckANC #fuckloadshedding