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So the hospital requested help from

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fema because over the last two years we

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have seen a influx of patients that are

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critically ill . Whether it's with

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Covid or whether it's with illnesses

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that they have put off seeing their

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providers for until it becomes to a

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point where we need hospitalization .

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So when the request was approved , I

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felt a sense of relief . It has been

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very difficult to watch people that I

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work with day in and day out become

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more tired and more fatigued and just

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the burnout creeping up in them . So to

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know that we have help coming , even if

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it's only for a short while that will

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help us get back to where we need to be .

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Well , my initial thoughts when I found

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out about this mission was I was super

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excited . I've done this before and I

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was like kind of just ready to go and

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I've only had a good experience . It

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feels really good to like get out there .

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Um because this is why I joined the

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military . So I was just like super

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pumped to go and everyone that I go

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with is always really nice and I make a

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bunch of friends . So when you go to a

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new spot every time , good morning .

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What I feel working here is , um ,

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it's been pretty intense , but at the

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same time it's getting better . It's

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understaffed here . So it is a demand

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that we are here and I'm actually

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pretty happy that we're helping out and

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uh , we're getting everything done . A

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lot of admissions and discharges

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throughout the day . So , you know , a

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lot of busy task work really . The

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most important reason we asked for help

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from fema is because we had to help

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this county were able to take care of

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this community that we're able to keep

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this community healthy . And to do that ,

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we need people . We have a great

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facility . We have great technology .

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Um , but every hospital needs people

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to care for those patients to use that

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advanced technology to run those

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ventilators . It is truly wonderful

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that we have this type of support from

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our federal government to provide care

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here close home for our patients . It's

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just completely wonderful that we're

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able to pull together as a community ,

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pull together as a country , um , to

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continue to provide care for these

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patients close to home .