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Thank you to Dr. John Bream and Dr Bruce Patterson who took some of their valuable time today to try to help my sister, who is in the ICU on mechanical ventilation with COVID and pneumonia at Citrus Memorial Hospital, Inverness, FL. Her situation is dire.
Friday will mark two weeks of hospitalization. The first week, she was given five rounds of Remdesivir (worthless) and convalescent plasma (worthless)...she digressed, got worse.
Now, much worse.
I have been trying desperately to get real help for my sister. A special thank you to Dr. Scott Kelly of Cytodyn. Here’s why. Last Saturday, I contacted Dr. Kelly. He immediately responded offering all help possible from Cytodyn, and asked me to have the attending physician(s) contact him directly to request Leronlimab via eIND. Cytodyn on board. Check.
Monday morning I was at hospital, not taking “no” for an answer and remaining there until I could speak directly to the doctors. That eventually happened. I requested, pleaded, begged for them to contact Dr. Kelly. After much emphatic pleading and citing Leronlimab’s tremendous safety and efficacy records, including some of the now well-known examples, they agreed to make the request. I gave them all of Dr. Kelly’s contact information. Upon contact, Cytodyn requested a current positive (or negative) COVID test. It was still positive - sent to Cytodyn. Check, help on its way.
Then nothing. Nothing. It has taken two whole subsequent days, but today I finally found out the hold up. Cytodyn on board, doctors on board. What is the hold up? “The hospital CMO and Administration has a ‘policy’ of not giving ‘unapproved, experimental’ medications to its patients.” I demanded to speak to the CMO and Administrator - more than once.
They sent the “quality control” and “safety” officers to meet privately with my brother-in-law and me this afternoon. During the conversation they cited, regarding the hospital’s “policy,” the oath of “to do no harm.” I explained harm can be done by omission as well as co-mission. I also strongly urged and pleaded 1. Compassionate use; 2. eIND; and 3. The right to try. (and 4. the dubious and regrettable record of the current standard of care). We offered to pay any uncovered costs, and offered to sign any waivers necessary to protect the hospital and doctors.
They are now addressing all the above within the hospital administration. And right now, tonight, my sister is lying in that room dying.
Tomorrow, we will be at it again (if she survives). Not going to stop. Please pray for my sister and all the others whose lives are currently being put in grave danger, and those who have died, because of institutional inaction and unjustifiable, harmful “policies.”
Thank you to Dr. John Bream and Dr Bruce Patterson who took some of their valuable time today to try to help my sister, who is in the ICU on mechanical ventilation with COVID and pneumonia at Citrus Memorial Hospital, Inverness, FL. Her situation is dire.
Friday will mark two weeks of hospitalization. The first week, she was given five rounds of Remdesivir (worthless) and convalescent plasma (worthless)...she digressed, got worse.
Now, much worse.
I have been trying desperately to get real help for my sister. A special thank you to Dr. Scott Kelly of Cytodyn. Here’s why. Last Saturday, I contacted Dr. Kelly. He immediately responded offering all help possible from Cytodyn, and asked me to have the attending physician(s) contact him directly to request Leronlimab via eIND. Cytodyn on board. Check.
Monday morning I was at hospital, not taking “no” for an answer and remaining there until I could speak directly to the doctors. That eventually happened. I requested, pleaded, begged for them to contact Dr. Kelly. After much emphatic pleading and citing Leronlimab’s tremendous safety and efficacy records, including some of the now well-known examples, they agreed to make the request. I gave them all of Dr. Kelly’s contact information. Upon contact, Cytodyn requested a current positive (or negative) COVID test. It was still positive - sent to Cytodyn. Check, help on its way.
Then nothing. Nothing. It has taken two whole subsequent days, but today I finally found out the hold up. Cytodyn on board, doctors on board. What is the hold up? “The hospital CMO and Administration has a ‘policy’ of not giving ‘unapproved, experimental’ medications to its patients.” I demanded to speak to the CMO and Administrator - more than once.
They sent the “quality control” and “safety” officers to meet privately with my brother-in-law and me this afternoon. During the conversation they cited, regarding the hospital’s “policy,” the oath of “to do no harm.” I explained harm can be done by omission as well as co-mission. I also strongly urged and pleaded 1. Compassionate use; 2. eIND; and 3. The right to try. (and 4. the dubious and regrettable record of the current standard of care). We offered to pay any uncovered costs, and offered to sign any waivers necessary to protect the hospital and doctors.
They are now addressing all the above within the hospital administration. And right now, tonight, my sister is lying in that room dying.
Tomorrow, we will be at it again (if she survives). Not going to stop. Please pray for my sister and all the others whose lives are currently being put in grave danger, and those who have died, because of institutional inaction and unjustifiable, harmful “policies.”
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