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Good News: Masked Woman did not pass away today!
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Masked man’s loved one was having some chest pains so we went to local hospital

Good news: hospital ran tests and no signs of heart attack. (might be some gull bladder stones starting to form up high which is common but that is no big deal if they become a problem that can treated medically)

It also noteworthy to mention the staff and doctors were all mask compliant upon our request for them to mask. While I’m unsure  of any mandate or policy in regards to masking at Watauga County Hospital Boone, NC, i did tell a receptionist and a nurse I considered the patient to be immunocompromised and she is 77 years of age. Then I simply told staff politely yet firmly who did not have a mask on and who were entering our personal space that “we prefer you to mask for us if that  is possible" and each staff member who wasn’t masked put their mask on when approaching me and my loved one who remained masked.

I commend staff for honoring our personal request to mask for us. The doctor informed me that he masks anyway because he doesn’t want to bring anything home to his new daughter.

Regardless of your healthcare or hospital's mandate on masks, I highly encourage patients to speak up and request to doctors and staff that you prefer they mask for you. Take charge of your health!you are the patient! and you are the customer! You have a voice and many hospitals and healthcare will comply to your request! Empower one another by requesting masks.. you may be pleasantly surprised that they often comply!

My loved one and I are safe back at home again and because we masked I feel safer that we didn't catch any illnesses while we were treated there at the hospital because of the mask precautions we took and the staff took for us.

Best Wishes,
The Masked Man

P.S. By the way, I could hear in the distance  two staff members who were coughing in the background. One was coughing somewhat roughly. None of the staff or doctors that treated us directly showed signs of coughing. Maybe one was sniffling a little. But just down the hall I could tell that it was a staff member coughing throughout the hours just around corner from us and he sounded sick to me like a painful cough. But again all those directly before did mask for us and we were masked as well.

There was nobody in the waiting room.

Of course when we get home I treat clothes as if they are infected and throw them in wash and we shower.

Also, I didn't notice any significant air purifiers in our room and I very much doubt there was some sort of ventilation system in the ceiling at least I didn't see or hear one.


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So sorry to hear that your loved one had to go to the hospital. I hope she is getting better. Glad to hear that the hospital was able to mask for you.

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Thank you Data Report! She is great.. because of the chest pains we just had to be responsible and get it checked out and the tests at hospital indicated no heart attack or heart problems. Some of the tests indicated potential gull bladder stones which might require surgery down the road so all is well and we should be going for our masked walk this evening. We are very pleased having been responsible we ruled out serious problems and at same time took precautions to reduce the probability of getting sick from the hospital visit itself by masking.

I will add because I utilize the mask regularly in my life, I am well trained in the mask that it was easy for me to follow hygiene measures and health protocols so masking was quite easy for us when rushing and in the heat of moment getting her to hospital and protecting her at same time from serious viruses. Practice makes perfect and masking is a great skill and privilege to have in life to use in common day activities to simply be safer as well as when entering grounds where safety from viruses is jeopardized. No one wants to get sick from a hospital while they are taking tests to  make sure they are okay to prevent prospective health issues!

The mask is a great tool indeed as it simply frees me from great deal of worrying and wondering. Life is hard enough but because we are so good at masking I may have saved myself and my loved one from a needless fatal bout of pneumonia, influenza, etc. To me protecting us in a safety mask has become second nature. It's awesome brother and sisters to simply be and feel safer... now my loved one and I are free to go for a masked walk, to dance in our living room and play musical instruments and study stuff online! 

It is beautiful day for us,

Best wishes,
The Masked Man

I want to emphasize and share to readers that masking is indeed a skill. It is a skill to master. It is often not just enough to throw on a mask and have instant comfort and success  .. it might fog your glasses up, your face might itch, it might slip off your nose.(One of the nurses mask kept slipping off his nose.. totally unprofessional and ridiculous to see a nurses nostrils pointing out over his patient) ..ultimately you want to practice using your mask in private and working those kinks out privately in practice. Someone new to masking might have to face and overcome claustrophobic phobias while first masking. You might be required to lift fifty lbs. while wearing mask or helping  somebody into a wheelchair while masked or simply  be able to read a book for several hours in a mask while remaining calm.. can you do it!? I can and it becomes comfortable because of repetition and habit therefore I call it a skill.  Its a similar  skill just like martial arts that requires a certain practice and rehearsal to master so that it is effective and natural feeling. As with any habit once the habit and skills of masking is formed it becomes comfortable and feels good to do and even feels natural.

My loved one was trained to wear that mask already. We went for daily walks in the mask. She wears that N95 mask while tackling dusty projects or cleaning things that might be moldy or if she is around things that cause allergies. We have a backdoor porch full of feral cats and some plants we enjoy and she always masks when enjoying these somewhat risky yet fulfilling activities... therefore I am proud to say she was quite comfortable and it was second nature for her to mask for our little hospital trip.
« Last Edit: October 18, 2025, 10:04:50 pm by Masked Man »
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Compare my story to those athletes in Data Reports sports Illness Threads (There are many who are playing despite being ill and many apparently not being diagnosed or determining their illnesses for goodness sake):
LINK:
https://www.datareport.info/2025-tracking-threads/2025-us-sports-illness-thread/
& also here LINK:
https://www.datareport.info/2025-tracking-threads/2025-international-sports-illness-thread/msg4333/?topicseen#new

Note all the undiagnosed undisclosed illness cases amongst the athletes. If I behaved like those athletes and didn't seek medical attention for my loved one, you would think I should go to jail for having denied  medical treatment to my loved one. What happen to us is my loved appeared to have great anxiety and little chest pains. Maybe it was the spicy shrimp creole we ate or maybe it was some pain medicine that she normally doesn't take that evening that triggered her discomfort but why take chances!? Let's be realistic ...DON"T TAKE UNNECESSARY RISKS OR CHANCES ... it was high time to seek medical attention.. like right away!! I love her!

I couldn't play know it all when it comes to a loved one being uncomfortable with symptoms of illness and we did the right thing by promptly seeking medical attention in our masks to avoid further illnesses and complications that could arise from catching an airborne illness/virus at hospital while we were there. Look at wonderful results:

We found out my loved one is okay.
We ruled out that she was not having any immediate life threatening conditions such as heart problems
We found out from tests she might have prospective problems with gall bladder stones or kidney stones which is a great thing to know for the future

We came home knowing we can participate in walking (exercise) with no fear of it killing her.

Compare this to all the unknown scary illnesses as of yet diagnosis' for all that athletes who are ignoring what is inherently good for us such as knowledge of what ails them and who have no idea what illness they are sporting with. Ignoring or pushing blindly through symptoms of an unknown illness is no way to live. With real medical attention and care much of this useless suffering that ill athletes are subjecting one another to in the face of acting macho  might even be easily preventable. Imagine the monstrosity, if I treated my loved one that way and simply told you all she is suffering from an 'illness' but that we will push through those chest pains and that he ache and walk competitively anyway tomorrow! That's exactly the way we treat these athletes who are complaining or bragging about their symptoms and undisclosed undiagnosed illnesses.

Think about it: Many retirement homes, airports ,schools participate in disclosing warning information to the public when they know the public was exposed to a case of measles, or tuberculoses  on their grounds in order to reduce outbreaks... the entire airport or school warns the public of an exposure meanwhile athlete after athlete simply states they have an "illness" with no regard or fair warning to those they may have been in contact with that week. Talk about playing dumb.. stop playing until you figure out what ya got.. then report what you got to others so others know what to look for. Half the battle in treating something properly is knowing what it is and so its simply mean to hide it from others you had contact with. A sick person might go the doctors and be a day too late in wondering what particular contagious disease or illness they have because the athlete that gave it to them is hiding his or her illness.

People,
If someone you love is hurting be responsible, seek medical attention and make efforts to find out what is wrong and take precautions such as masking to prevent further problems while determining illness.

If I treated my loved one like these athletes who keep playing while sporting an undiagnosed or undisclosed illness they'd put me in prison and rightly so for refusing to seek medical attention to one who needs it! We as a society attempt to help people who are in need of medical care or unable to care for themselves or if we are suicidal. I don't see why we let athletes endanger themselves and others.

That being said, it is equally offensive that many doctors, nurses, staff, patients don't take precautions such as masking and other preventative measures to protect one another, their patients from exchanging airborne illnesses and viruses while these patients are seeking medical attention. Many of us who need medical attention are rightly  afraid to because we are afraid to get sick at the very place we seek medical treatment and attention from.

The n95 mask is an indispensable tool that has been scientifically proven to help prevent airborne illness and viruses, Use it!
The Masked Man

P.S. Our masked doctor and masked nurse had my masked love one hooked up to a machine that checks for heart attacks and monitors vital signs, blood pressure, oxygen saturation constantly for like four hours straight. Not once did the doctor tell my loved one to take off her mask and that machine would have told us if she wasn't getting enough oxygen or if the mask was impeding her health in any way. She's 77 and didn't whine about her mask so there's absolutely no excuse for people to say they can't breathe through a properly fitted n95 mask especially an athlete or healthcare worker.

We have to seek medical treatment again someday so there needs to be an agreement and a mandate for all doctors to mask or rather all doctors, nurses, and staff who boast of treating the human condition should follow the scientific data and wear masks  .. we probably just got lucky that particular doctor who ran tests on us last night wears masks. I commended him for masking and you know what his reply was? It was "I mask because I have a newborn daughter and I don't want to bring any of that stuff home to her".

I certainly haven't even had a doctor checkup nor do I go to hospital unless I think I'm dying since nobody masks in the waiting rooms and my loved one's cousin got covid during his hospital stay(caught covid while in the hospital) and passed away from covid complications. I'm not a dumb animal that is going to risk catching an airborne illness from those that don't make efforts to prevent airborne illnesses. Unless I absolutely have to,  Even though I mask I'm not likely going to enter a place  that is supposed to treat illnesses and has ill people routinely frequent their facility that doesn't do squat to prevent the spread of illnesses amongst their staff and clientele. Like I said I'm not deaf I heard some hospital staff worker down the hall coughing his head off for four hours straight while me and loved one were in masks in a room hooked up to something that monitor her health and monitoring for heart attacks. I have no way of knowing if that obviously sick staff worker came into our room or infected those that work around him. Usually that is how people get sick.. someone is sick they don't go home and cough and make others sick. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure that out.

When I do have to go to these places  I make people wear masks around me and my loved ones because we are wearing masks. I tell the nurses that don't have a mask : "We prefer you wear a mask for us" So far they comply because I won't let them near my masked loved one if they don't mask up. I"ll get my loved one outta there if they don't mask up. As genuine caretaker, I in my mask will become a physical barrier between me and my masked love one if they don't mask. Her regular doctor(whom according to nurse has actually lost a lot of elderly patients to covid) refused to see us because he refuses to mask so we found a doctor that does mask. Ive also got a spray bottle of rubbing alcohol.  I keep in my jacket pocket constantly spraying our hands and to clean the chairs we sit in. You want something done right you gotta do it yourself.
« Last Edit: October 19, 2025, 09:40:19 pm by Masked Man »
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Update/
Follow-Up:

We just returned form a local doctor routine yearly exam/ checkup.
Everything looks good!
We've been masking publicly since 2020, My loved one is 77 soon to be 78 years old and hasn't had a single airborne illness since 2020. 

It's not "knock on wood", nor is it by mere luck or chance that we have been this healthy.... Its because of our masks and the preventative measures we take.

A Mask point to ponder:
The mask will never brag about how many times it has saved your life.. it just saves lives and hardship unbeknownst to you or me.

There was one person today coughing painfully in the doctor's waiting room. For all I know it was covid or pneumonia. My uncle passed away from pneumonia recently. Why sugar coat it.. illnesses causes great suffering, disability and it's fair to say illness can murder. It would equally be true to say pneumonia killed my uncle and that pneumonia murdered my uncle. Because me and my loved one masked today we may have dodged an airborne illness that would have taken out my life or her life at 77 years of age or any age for that matter.

We were masked and so that also empowered and definitely gives us the right to tell the nurses we prefer they mask. I did just that. To the nurses that were to work directly with my masked love one I went up to them personally directly beforehand and said "We prefer you wear a mask for us" and so those that weren't masked  did mask for us before touching my loved one. They were masked so  therefore they didn't get in her face and simply give her anything in the asymptomatic stage insofar as airborne illness goes.

Besides wearing our masks and besides simply lowering my voice and telling a maskless nurse or two that is about to have contact with us that "we prefer you wear mask for us, if that is alright"..or We prefer you wear a mask for her/us if that is possible", I tell it to whoever approaches her and they always turn away and slip their mask on instantly.. so far they never object they always seem to get a mask on real quick..
...Every now and again Ive had to ask a few nurses or attendants  on other occasions sometimes more than once and they always end up masking when I repeat the request..sometimes Ive had to say " "we prefer you wear mask for us, if that is alright, now Thank you"..or We prefer you wear a mask for her/us Now.. thank you "" I prefer you put on a mask now" .. and so far they put one one. I always just use the words my/her/our preference with great results. They usually never try to talk their way out of wearing one and if they did I would probably just ignore it and repeat myself "we prefer you mask before letting them proceed. I wouldn't let them take blood or anything without that mask on their face. They probably sense that and they put their mask on. Regardless I never let anyone touch her or breathe on her or guide her directly without them wearing a mask simply because that's what I believe in and we are wearing our masks so they should do as we are and first and foremost because #1 only thing that counts is what we want and ask for... "we prefer them to wear masks."

I also tell whoever worked with us masked as they leave the room is to make sure the nest person is "masked for us" I just say it: "Make sure the next person coming in is masked for us"...This just reinforces the notion I appreciate the masking and also gives the masked nurse or whoever I am talking to to make sure the doctor or whoever really has their mask on.That's just an extra thing that just makes me feel better to reinforce masking... a nice reminder to other I want them masked so I don't have to tell them my preferences directly.

Because we masked we were able to stick our dirty clothes in the wash before unmasking and were able to wash our bodies and hair before touching our faces which have air holes and membranes that carry microscopic entities into our system.

For all I know, the mask saved our lives today! The mask is an unsung hero so to speak. You never know how close to death we may have come today for it weren't for our mask wearing at that doctor's office!

Anyway the mask will never get the credit it deserves because it doesn't tell you it saved you from a pesky virus or not.. it just does its job to prevent airborne illness and prevents you from breathing in microscopic entities and particles. I'm sure If a mask could talk it would tell you it saved your hide and your life when it did.

By wearing masks and not catching any airborne illness whatsoever such as a cold, the flu, covid, etc for about 6 years now, who knows how many good years we have actually added onto our lives!

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link... An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure which is why I mask,
The Masked Man

P.S.
Not only did we mask at the doctor's office, we also climbed a few flights of steps rather than taking the stuffy elevator! We masked crusaders are obviously in better shape than the unmasked ones who take elevator.

My attitude is there's a good chance our masks saved our lives today. I live believing that after all there was somebody in that waiting room painfully coughing their poor aching head off. I sleep better at night knowing my loved one and I were masked and likely didn't breathe in whatever that person was suffering with. Who knows what our mask saved us from! I'm just grateful we are maskers.. that's for sure!
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Update on Masked Woman's health status..

.. the results and proofs are in.. from snail mail, we just received the results from lab tests from doctor's office;

Masked woman has "slightly elevated creatinine level  and a slightly depressed eGFR. She is to avoid NSAIDS (ibuprofen, naproxen, diclofenac, meloxicam, Celebrex, etc.) and make sure she drinks plenty of water throughout the day. Otherwise there is no need for changes to current management."

.. all that's good news! Not bad for a 77 year old. I have encouraged her to wear a mask since beginning of pandemic in 2020. She masks when she briefly goes outside and we mask for public walks and mask for any public encounters we might be forced to have.

Evidently the mask and our protective way of life hasn't done us any harm and we have avoided any covid or airborne illnesses since 2020 because of our masking and protective way of life. The mask hasn't appeared to have any negative consequences for my loved one and mine and only seems to provide for a more  quality of life possibly adding years onto our life.

I'd like to know How many 77 year olds do you know that haven't caught a single airborne illness in 6 years straight? I think a person that is 77 year old or any age for that matter is healthier for having masked and not having  caught any airborne illnesses! Anyway the results of Masked woman's relative good health lab results indicate the masking publicly and outdoors is a good thing especially considering all the things she hasn't wrong with her.

All I know is Masked woman is relatively healthy. We wear masks and avoid public exposure and catching contagious illnesses for 6 years of vital health success thus far. I gotta give the mask the credit! We are better off for having worn our masks!  It's worth it!

The Masked Man

P.S. We just bought a container/vase perfect for water storage to monitor she drinks enough water throughout the day. We shall keep it in fridge and we shall make sure she gets enough water and stays nice and hydrated.

Now we avoid NSAID's.. we might go the extra mile and reduce our meats and eat more plant based diet instead... I need to do all that anyway so I'm game! I'll adopt these new healthier diet habits as well!

Insofar as some of our exercise we shall walk more frequently but earlier in the day. We always walk masked but I still can't barely stand walking by the maskless so we are even less likely to walk past the maskless 'days are numbered' mortals by walking earlier in the day. Personally I just can't stand maskless people and so be it. It is to my benefit I avoid the maskless. The maskless just don't have that it takes to impress me and aren't worth my time.

... gosh just think if she hadn't masked and caught covid or anything!?  Her health probably wouldn't be as good if she hadn't masked and instead had caught a bout or two of covid from frivolous encounters with good for nothing maskless neighbors, so-called maskless friends, disrespectful maskless relatives. maskless handyman, or maskless church related events ...had she caught any airborne illnesses over the past six years, she might not even be here with me. I certainly wouldn't want to leave that up to chance. I declare this with raw sincerity: Thank you mask for saving our 'efffin lives!

Also, apparently our masks worked and we didn't get sick from the doctor's visit itself to get the lab test done in the doctor's office which included a maskless lady coughing painfully in the waiting room. One of my biggest concerns and most rational justified fears is simply catching an illness from sick people while getting a routine checkup or while taking a lab test in a healthcare facility.  We wore masks and I made sure personally and successfully directed all doctors and nurses approaching us directly and to hose entering into our room to also wear masks. Obviously our masks worked as we didn't get sick it being a week or so later of no illness since our doctor visit.

Lemme tell ya something people, you don't wanna take chances right now with anything... if you have to go somewhere be safe and smart by wearing well-fitting N95 masks like us! Trust me.

Tonight Masked Man and Masked woman celebrate our health  by resuming our online dance lessons from 375 Dance Studio LINK:
https://www.youtube.com/c/375DanceStudio
... we love to dance in our living room! Later!



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Just got back from the regular MD consisting of a consultation with my loved one and MD so that she can get a referral for gall bladder surgery.

Lemme tell ya man .. one receptionist had a mask on and that was all I saw of masked people. None of the people going there for checkup or who were ill were masking.. that's for sure. To me It's nasty. It disgusts me. Defend yourselves and mask up! duh! Especially around sick people and when caring for sick people!

We were masked of course and then I just said in the most timid meek nicest voice as possible "We prefer you wear a mask.. if that's okay!?" I have a real deep voice so I toned it down so it felt like I was almost begging. The nurse agreed and stuck her mask on .... we were in a super stuffy room..

Right after the nurse took some vitals and was leaving I made another official request to have her tell the doctor to mask before he entered and she did..
...whew ...The doctor actually put a mask on even though he didn't have one on in the hallway ... I sprayed the place with 91 percent rubbing alcohol when nobody was looking ...

...I literally stood by and blocked the door ready to square up with anybody that even tried to enter our room maskless. I was literally going to stick my masked face into their maskless face and simply repeat "we prefer you mask" over and over no matter what until they obeyed.

In my perspective , as the ever faithful Masked Man who hasn't had a single airborne illness since 2020 because of masking thinks: These unmasked people at medical facilities are crazy! People just don't have any respect for viruses. Its nuts ... its a microscopic entity and you just know people spread viruses in these medical facilities ...

I'm home now everything went into wash... took mask off right before showering ... sprayed everything like shoes and every object that was there with rubbing alcohol...

This was a terrifying day to little old masked man...Its terrifying to someone like me that doesn't take chances with getting sick or making my 77 year old loved one sick. Today I faced or rather masked for my worst enemy" a place where sick maskless people gather... A medical facility! 

I guess soon she has to have surgery and that's got me nervous too because her cousin got covid during his stay at a hospital and then passed away from covid complications. So I'll tell the surgeon all about my rational fears and how I want everybody masked and I'll have to guard her and myself.

I'm not wimpy.. I'm tough.. I can bicycle 7 miles straight in a mask, I lift some weights, I can work a little on a roof (I do it masked).. Ive stared down some mean dogs in my time even had guys flashing knives at me in my life but I just weigh the odds and simply know I'm no match for microscopic entities such viruses..That's the one thing I can't beat... viruses kick my butt! When I get sick I'm beat and whipped. For me viruses always win. When I used to go unmasked and get sick I always prayed for it to be over. I hate long term suffering that getting sick brings.

I just never underestimate or belittle the true nature of insidious airborne illnesses , airborne viruses, and airborne diseases! They are so small and sticky .. you can't see 'em and they will torture you, give ya long term health problems  and kill people too. I can't stand a fever I can't stand a headache or an ear infection etc. A virus is torture incarnate!

Anyway message to readers is to stand up for your masks and  don't be afraid to tell an unmasked nurse or unmasked doctor you "prefer" they wear a mask!,
The Masked Man

P.S. We  probably are fine from today's Doctor's (we wore N95 masks during visit and kept masks on way home in car (incase of surface contamination on our clothes or from our hair was infectious) and then we threw clothes in wash and took showers but ya never know for sure because of surface contamination and you just never know if you don't happen to be carrying an electron microscope with ya.

If you are a caretaker and you love yourself and you love who you are bringing into a medical facility, you keep you masks on and stand up for yourselves and make medical professionals who come up to you mask for you! Don't be wimpy about it! That's your life brothers and sisters! Mask up!

That nurse and that doctor didn't have any masks on till I voiced my preferences and requests several times! You masked people out there make your voice heard make your preferences known, set your personal boundaries, and make those nurses and doctors mask before they get in your masked face or touch ya! Don't let 'em breathe on ya!
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Just got back from a pre-surgery appointment for Masked Woman who is probably to have Gall Bladder removed.

Nurse was nice and put on a mask for us when I said "we prefer you put a mask on if that is alright" and  she complied and had the doctor also put on a mask when he came in for us.

I'm still terrified doctors simply think covid isn't as bad nowadays.. they simply write it off as not as dangerous .. I say "I still worry about the long term repercussions of a novel disease such as covid" and the doctor gets real silent when I said that. There's no reply to that concern of mine  They are specialists they are not necessarily virologists .. Long covid is super serious ..it just irks me when doctors underestimate the impact these diseases can have I certainly am not going to take my mask off I don't want covid no matter what anybody says. Ive gone this long without covid.. I'll keep masking..'F' catching covid or anything at this point! I developed my masking skills to a tee the last 6 years so I'm going to keep using them!

I'm telling you virus's are like the Achilles heel for many of us at any age.. A virus can simply be one more nail in the coffin to some of us. Besides even if it doesn't kill me viruses are frickin' uncomfortable! I hate being tortured by any illness whatsoever! All this is because I have been masking and realize how great it is having not gotten even a minor routine cold.. its so sweet.. I'm telling masking is sweet!

I'm glad the doctor  masked for us  after I requested them too but the nurse and doctor  didn't wash their hands in front of me (there's soap right there hanging on the wall) and there aint nobody cleaning the seats.. Still I feel safer because the doctor and nurse couldn't breathe directly on my loved one as much through their mask.. it just seems safer that all of us were masking since we were somewhat closer to one another.

It still never ceases to amaze me the lack of interest doctors have when I tell them  my loved one and I have been masking for 6 years and haven't caught a single airborne virus!... Ive never had a doctor once say "That's amazing!" or "good Job!" .. its just weird their lack of interest in the fact I am a healthy specimen and have been healthy for that long a time.. 6 years of not even a cold is simply something to Bragg about to a doctor.. they never pat me on the back or tell my loved one how special I am or that I am a good protector!

I feel like I am a better doctor and more of an expert than the doctor that stands before me! because I am so healthy and bet you anything they've gotten sick within the timespan of six years. It just feels really strange being healthier than those who are supposed to be experts on the matter...lol..I guess that's why I have to tell them to put on a mask for me! Its totally screwed up and backwards that essentially I am more successful than a doctor is at fighting virus's because I am a masker and they aren't!. Its actually pathetic. Doctors and those in healthcare should learn from my success and mask up for their profession everyday.. that's all there is to it. They need to automatically mask for their patients! Doctors need to mandate this into their own code of ethics and work it in that Hippocratic oath they took about promising to always prevent illnesses by all possible means. Doctors and nurses need to to more not less they need to take the extra mile and Take extra precautions because one can take extra probations.. put the 'extra' in the 'extra' and do the 'EXTRA' because its possible.. not do less (Doctors also need to read up on the latest long covid studies as well even if that isn't their specialty). Take precautions like masking for viruses because it's easy and it helps and never hurts to do the extra. They need to mask because it never hurts and it only helps. Things that only help are good... and doctors need to do good things...right?. its just common sense.

...I haven't been sick because of my precautions and masking in 6 whole years.. not a single contagions airborne illness...  I'm the perfect specimen .. my loved one also hasn't been sick in 6 whole years. I'm glad for that. I'm not afraid to be me and to live a masked way of life. I don't like the same things a lot of other people seem like anyway..I'm glad I'm different ..I say its paid off having an incredible skill like masking has done me nothing but good! I don't miss waiting in lines or shopping or eating out .. I love my life as  it is now.

whew, I feel like we were safe enough today with our masks.. still there's old people in waiting room one with a little cough... but we sat in our masks far away and washed everything when we got home. The next appointment should be okay

.. I guess I'll be masking up at home for awhile directly after her gall bladder surgery just to be on the safe side for myself. That's my big fear and genuine concern  she gets sick in a hospital setting with some virus from a maskless staff person. The surgery is porobally in January which hopefully flu season will be over. Once again there's no masking mandate and once they take my loved one away I can't be certain all people will mask to be on the safe side. I am the one that makes sure my loved one has mask on. Its terrifying to me. That will be a scary day as surgery is scary enough. Again I worry less about the surgery as I do her getting a virus . She's 77 soon to be 78.. people should take all precautions!

I'm not an extremest. I'm 55 and Ive tested this masked way of life  for six years now.. I do better masked! I actually like not catching viruses after six years of playing it safe. I don't miss be around maskless people whatsoever. I am completely happy at home performing music or studying online or being with my pets. I love being safe. I don't miss even that occasional cold or ear infection I would get once a year or so.

I Gotta tell ya Society stinks! There's nothing meaningful for me in frivolous encounters with the  maskless. They are but passerby's They aren't safe and don't protect themselves. I find meaningfulness at home online where one can truly be free to focus or use the intellect on safer grounds or be creative in front of the computer or a good book or anywhere safe in the den. There's nothing very satisfying or fulfilling for me being out and about. It's just a rat race of activities that people have to 'get done'..there's nothing intellectual or particularly artistic to be gained out in a public place for me. I never go out unless I have to like going to doctors for a loved one's Gall bladder...

...I have spoiled myself not getting sick whatsoever in the last six years because of Masking and I  plan on continuing to stay safe because it was well worth masking to me . Its been six beautiful healthy years because of my way of precautions and my masked way of life. I don't miss a single thing others would conceive of as being 'normal". I am far better off being more independent and safer than I used to be pre pandemic days ...

...I'm definitely the Masked Man forever.. happy and proud of my somewhat independent Masked way of life!  :)
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I hope that the surgery goes well. Good Luck!

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Thank you Steve.

I admit I must have gone to the bathroom a million times this morning and can barely eat  not to mention didn't get a wink of sleep before the appointment. I have more concerns than she does!

It is a very common procedure so it will likely be very successful.. she probably won't even have to stay overnight. Still its nerve-racking for little old me.

Thanks for for your concern it means a lot to me to be able to share my feelings online with everybody here.

It keeps me focused and feels healthy to simply write freely how I feel and what my thought process' are as I learn new things, meet challenges and observe events.

Have a great day brother!  :)
The Masked Man

P.S. So the doctor masked for me.. his mask didn't slip under his nose completely but still its super hard to focus because his mask just kept slowly riding down his nose... no matter how hard I concentrate it just comes back to "How low is it gonna go" until he finally pushes his mask back up so I can concentrate again on what he is saying. Its just nerve-wracking being around a mask that keeps slipping on a doctor's nose  :o . Gawd, it's good to be back home. There's nothing like taking a crash course in how Gall Bladders work while same time being acutely aware of nose slippage of Doctor's Mask.. ya just feel like helping him with his mask ...Oh and earlier when the nice nurse went to put a mask on for us she got two out of the box that didn't work until finally there was nothing wrong with the third mask. At least they masked and at least the  the car started so I could get back home! lol
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Captain Masked Man's Log entry Round 5 or 6 of chronicles of Masked Woman's Gall Bladder Surgery process... Just my little journal entry of Masked Woman's medical treatment process and how I'm holding up from the process...

Alright!, Masked Man just got back from taking Masked Woman'o pre surgery ultra sound visit at local hospital (two days before Christmas; a time where the season of giving often comes in the form of a flu)...

I feel pretty safe from that trip For a guy like me that masks and takes precautions and  doesn't belittle what we can't see such as germs and is going for the world record of not catching a cold or any airborne illness from anywhere in 6 years straight. I simply never take for granted my relatively decent health and I never underestimate the hell, torment, damage, and even death airborne illness can cause. I am masker and a rebel or sorts and I challenge the popular belief and notion held currently by the maskless masses that airborne illnesses and airborne diseases are something I have to take chances on, tolerate, or live with.

Of course we were masked and I have a little bottle of rubbing alcohol I squirt from time to time.

I was nervous of course because its two days before Christmas and I expected to see a lot of sick people and I was anxious about getting exposed to sick people and having encounters in close quarters with ill people. It was early morning and not many people!

The receptionist was  in a very small cubicle room that admitted us actually had a mask on..I tell ya one thing the receptions had a short list of questions one of which was if Masked woman was sick or not.. that just threw me off a little.. I responded thinking it was about our masks and I replied "no we aren't sick we just don't like to take chances" I'm like no, we aren't we have masks on and I'm also thinking its a weird question to ask because how would we know if we were sick? That's for a hospital to find out!.. anyway the masked receptionist  was just asking a formality of questions I suppose for the ultra  sound technician we were about to recieve ..part if me thought "if we were sick would you tell the technician to mask up for us"?

..No real close encounters with maskless people to report.. it wasn't very busy and everybody was able to keep distance...That being said the chances we were sitting in a chair a sick person just got out of is pretty high and airborne illness stays suspended in rooms for hours if not days where sick people frequent... I worry about upholstery and chairs we perch on of course. but we don't touch our faces because we are masked and I keep our hands fairly clean and expect to throw clothes and washer when we get home in case of surface contamination from sticky invisible germs.

So the nurse or rather technition that did the  ultra sound led us to ultrasound room. My little trick of saying "We prefer you mask for us if that is possible" in the nicest tone of voice I could use did the trick and she left the room and entered wearing mask for us. It wasn't' awkward asking her to mask for us. That was a relief because the technician was masked, she wasn't breathing directly onto Masked woman. The masked technition  was in close contact with Masked Woman doing ultra sound on gall bladder area in room with masked woman on bed.

I wasn't separated from Masked Woman at anytime so I feel safe. Again I worried about the pillow she used while ultra sound was being done but again I sprayed some rubbing alcohol in my hand and rubbed her hair a little afterwards.

I was really glad I was never separated from her because I feel she was pretty safe and I made sure nurse/technician was masked and I am an excellent caregiver watching out for my loved one. I don't wanna get sick from a little hospital visit man! That's all there is to it. I don't accept illness and sickness as something I can do nothing about especially since I don't go anywhere in public anyway. I socialize online and I simply don't enjoy gatherings anyway so I am a 'stay at home' & 'work from home' kind of person. Exposing myself to airborne illness outside my home is not a way of life for me. 

So we rode home with masks on and I threw our clothes in wash before unmasking assuming if there are any germs they are in our clothes and hair and then we shower.

Maybe I sound like a fanatic because I am fanatical ..why not be fanatical about something and gung ho about something as important as me!? ya can't see microscopic airborne sticky germs  and after 6 years of no illness whatsoever of masking and taking precautions and living a relatively solitary lifestyle at home anyway all my strict masking  precautions are more than worth it considering I am only at a hospital for a couple hours tops. My attitude about staying safe in public is I might as well go for the gold and do the whole regiment of masking and precautions staying safe for that trip.

For me a guy that masks and never goes anywhere anyway, going to hospital is like walking through the valley of the shadow of death...I'm going to be exposed to germs at a hospital no doubt in my mind .so its been total stress all week in anticipation because  I'm healthy enough and  haven't gotten sick in 6 years and have spoiled myself... Yet today's hospital trip feels successful enough.  I feel good and safe enough like I pulled that off and feel pretty safe from our trip and so anyway I want readers to know they will probably have success if, while having their mask on already, they tell a health care worker:

*"We prefer you mask for us if that is alright" and likely the health care worker will!

Blessings,
Your beloved caregiver
The Masked Man
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NOTE - I didn't realize that this post was going to turn into a rant. Consider yourselves duly warned.

It continues to mystify me how healthcare professionals do not mask during influenza season. I understand the "My [fill in elderly family member or friend] did not get sick, ergo, I will not mask because it is no longer needed" 'moon-logic' that currently applies for rank-and-file civilians concerning Covid-19. I don't approve of that logic but, at the very least, I understand that it is the logic that those people prefer to use in order to avoid personal responsibility for their actions.

However, a healthcare professional should know better. Even people who are employed in a healthcare facility who are not a part of the medical operations (such as a doctor or a nurse) should be masking.

We continue to be presented with evidence of an unrelenting influenza season. It is our responsibility as mature and rational citizens to protect ourselves and our community based upon the evidence available. That evidence is that influenza continues to increase throughout the Northern Hemisphere to disastrous effect.

Covid-19 should have taught us, definitively, that nature is never going to be lenient with our misguided social practices. Whenever it can harm us, it will harm us and do so with no qualms whatsoever.

Getting a "flu shot" and masking with a N95 mask or better is the least that responsible citizens can do to lower the cost and risk of having viruses spread throughout this season.

I have already had a family member get sick this season with a "24-hour bug" of some kind (Norovirus? Food poisoning?) and a co-worker with some other mysterious infection (pneumonia, if I had to take a guess?) whose specifics I have not been made privy to. And those are just the two that I can remember immediately; I'm sure that there are others out there and, certainly, other people have their own stories of misfortune.

My society's ignorance for not taking stronger measures on this issue, especially with what the global community has gone through in the past 5+ years, irritates me to no end and I can guarantee you that this lenient "I was just following the crowd" attitude will only cease (too late, as always) when Covid-19, influenza or some other nightmare virus yet to be known finally hits upon the same infectiousness-and-mortality formula that early strains of Covid-19 did.

If safety regulations are written in blood, rules for infection control are written with corpses.

There - Rant over. My apologies for hijacking the thread.

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Hijack and rant away my dear comrade or perhaps I should say my good colleague Steve!
What some might term ranting and passion I deem to be a great sense-ability and intelligence .. I too am prone to ranting and even intertwine it with some imagination and figurate speech such as: May your words be heard and echo and thunder back down from the gods and clouds from above and into the tiny ears of my ignorant foes pounding their conscience until they hear your wisdom and submit and do what is right!

For you are totally justified to rant as I am still trying to figure out if the doctor who is doing the gallbladder surgery is going to mask and make those in Masked Woman's presence mask or not! I have not received a straightforward answer to this from her surgeon as of yet! The surgery itself puts my loved on in a state of immunocompromisation according to my research and its a wonder people and caregivers such as myself  aren't instructed to mask around a person that is to undergo surgery before, during and even after the surgery to ensure the success of the surgery and the surgeon's work! Don't they wanna make sure the patient doesn't catch a cold or covid and isn't sick on the operating table for the thousands of bucks they are about to make?


There is a reason they term them precautionary measures rather than just cautionary measures to prevent airborne illness and airborne disease..precautionary[ use pre meaning prior to or before one gets infected.. pre meaning to prevent. So do they believe in Precautionary measures as in do they believe in the Hippocratic oath they took namely: "if I am to care adequately for the sick. I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure"

Seems a guy willing to cut open my woman(excuse my pet name terms of endearment ownership attitude but this is the love of my life , my best friend , my partner in life to be precise)could at least show a little more respect for the doctor's oath he took and my concerns by stating clearly his stance as to whether he plans to wear a mask or not and whether he is going to make others mask around his patient. During the last visit he masked in my presence at my request but never gave me his word on masking for the surgery .. all he did was talk about how there hasn't been a mandate for masking at the hospital! My loved one will be under anesthesia.

Anybody doctor or surgeon willing to advertise their face on YouTube should have the decency to answer a few serious medical questions online as to if they mask or not!


Meet Tim Edmisten, MD - Watauga Surgical Group
UNC Health Appalachian...

SUMMARY:
most surgeries are considered invasive and the surgeries themselves inherently put a patient at risk especially an elderly loved one therefore  compromising the immunity of the patient.  Furthermore with today's rising concern about the long term repercussions of viruses especially relatively novel viruses such as long covid, what practices are taken by Dr Edmisten and his team and the hospital  to ensure complete success and recovery of patients who receive surgery? (surgery, including gallbladder removal (cholecystectomy), temporarily suppresses a patient's immune system due to stress, inflammation, and anesthesia, making them more vulnerable to infection)

LINK:
https://www.datareport.info/miscellaneous-discussions/public-study-whether-dr-edmisten-and-hospital-staff-treat-immunocompromised-pati/

In the Hippocratic oath there is a part in it that reads: "My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick. I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure"...Seems I am taking the Hippocratic oath more serious than those who are doing the medical slicing and dicing of flesh and administering medicine  to those in need such as the sick lame and elderly! Can't these professionals wear a mask to simply be on the safe side when they treat at risk patients who are typically in a state of weakness seeking care? I have no idea if the doctor or surgeon got sick from another patient or from his family on Christmas vacation and is masked or not while he cuts into my loved one!

Masks save lives by helping to prevent airborne Illness and airborne disease!
The Masked Man

P.S.
I want everybody to wear a mask when she's on the operating table. She's all I got. I love her. Wondering if the surgeon and those around her are going to wear a mask is killing me man! Like I said what if the surgeon and/or staff comes home sick after their Christmas vacations and then exposes my loved one to airborne illness while working around her? I'm a wreck and rightfully scared for her life...I'm sweating bullets  brothers and sisters.  People die like that! So far healthcare workers wear masks around us in front of me but only because I am presently there in my mask and only after I directly request it while I'm there masked and only one doctor so far has even washed his hands in front of us during these several appointments. I don't think its too much to ask if there is going to be strict masking around my loved one in and around that operating table!

By the way, my loved who is about to receive surgery lost a cousin to covid who had surgery at a hospital in West Virginia.. he contracted covid infection during his hospital stay and took covid home with him and died from complications of covid. Let’s learn from that and not have a repeat performance.. let’s take more precautions not less for the next patient.

I'm so serious about this I wanna be in the same room in my mask making sure everybody is masked. I would just sit in the corner and observe I don't care what it smells like or what blood and gore is involved wouldn't even phase me. I just want everybody to be masked so I can sleep better at night knowing the patient is safer… at least let me sit by the door to ensure those who enter are masked!

What's crazy is there is nothing in place to protect the healers from getting sick therefore the sick are leading the sick. The healers themselves refuse to take extra precautions and refuse to follow their Hippocratic oath and therefore refuse to take their own medicine in the form of extra precautions such as masking... I can't protect them if they refuse to mask and take precautions. Healthcare workers aren't paying attention or following rules or scientific data that supports that masks greatly help prevent airborne illnesses and airborne diseases therefore.. they are skipping that crucial evidence and data...Healthcare people aren't  challenging themselves and they are just being quiet..
...Obviously They aren't reading or studying about how viruses really work in this amazing forum and collection of highly categorized viruses and current events about the human condition at large...obviously there's not a doctor who will even speak his own mind amongst us..not a doctor to be found in a forum about viruses that will speak up on behalf of his fellow doctors even at this forum that has a beautiful and serious archive of viruses and studies all laid out before them. .. that fact doctors aren't active in this forum alone is alarming and bizarre...Just think one can study patterns and keep up to date with viruses and ponder connections and contemplate matters in regards to viruses..its fascinating and useful! Aren't doctors and healthcare people interested in viruses ..you know tiny microscopic things that make people sick that you can only see through the wonders of a microscope which is a powerful tool that I thought doctors appreciated? What are the chances  of that!? with all the schooling and money and interests tied up in health, a doctor isn't checking out a collection and archive of viruses and virus studies?  The sick lead the sick. This is called lack of education and acknowledgment of all the science and its advances including lack of appreciating medical tools, devices and apparatuses which are an important part of safety in the medical care world..They refuse to acknowledge all modes of protection against viruses and this is a negligence and injustice not to include the importance, utility and  necessity  of the safety mask in this field and its functions and ability to protect us in the practical world  .. If there are doctors out there that voluntarily acknowledge the function and usefulness of masks then those doctors are few and far between and need to make themselves more known and present.

To me, what most physicians and healers fail to recognize it is not a multiple choice of preventions.. you shouldn't chose one treatment over another treatment and then fail to acknowledge one treatment over the other. For instance if Masks help prevent airborne illness and airborne diseases then they must be acknowledged as a prevention and suggested and used. One isn't allowed to not include treatments just because they come in the form of using an apparatus and simply suggest internal medicine for everything. It isn't enough to simply dispense drugs and not use and include tools that actually prevent illnesses... ..that's part of The Hippocratic oath.. you have to include everything that prevents the disease or illness.. you aren't allowed to fail to mention what actually works if it exists and this includes masks. The Hippocratic oath doesn't allow you to favor the treatment over the preventative measures.. The Hippocratic oath clearly states "if I am to care adequately for the sick. I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure" Masks Prevent airborne Illness and airborne disease.. so follow the oath! >:( ..that's the "prevention" the oath is referring to. Its referring to the mask that prevents the infection from occurring in the first place obviously! 

(what I can't believe is nurses or doctors  that don't mask even qualify for health insurance wearing a mask for a doctor or nurse is equivalent to wearing a seatbelt in a car or wearing a helmet while operating heavy construction. a doctor without a mask just doesn't make sense a doctor without a mask is like a doctor with a cigarette hanging off his lips a doctor without a mask is like a doctor without a stethoscope ..use the safety tools man.. that's what they are there for! at least put on a mask when your patients are because it makes ya look weak and dimwitted not to have one on. Doctors that don't mask look  totally amateur like they don't belong around any airborne illnesses and like they don't know anything about viruses and covid was just a joke or something..its just hard to take an unmasked doctor or unmasked nurse seriously ..its as if they aren't qualified to be present around any viruses when they are unmasked..like they are on vacation at a cocktail party or something and they are in a different decade of time..Now  doctor or nurse with a mask on inspires trust and toughness ..
Now on the contrary ..A masked doctor or masked nurse is ready and prepared for anything and I mean anything ..you don't know what is wrong with a patient when they first come in coughing and sputtering or short of breath .. so the masked ones have what it takes to jump in there no matter what or how vicious or contagious the illness is and they can diagnose illnesses and disease safely and promptly when they have their mask already on.. an unmasked doctor or nurse is going to get waylaid by some airborne illness they aren't prepared for.. and they look it too .. they just don't have what it takes in advance like a masked healthcare worker has. The masked doctors make the maskless doctors look totally unprofessional and meek and worthless in the eyes of the patient The maskless doctor looks totally inept , totally unprepared and even ill prepared kind of like a bum while the Masked doctor looks like a total pro ready to jump into the face of anything!  like I can trust that masked doctor..he's on his toes a the top of his game ready for anything ..like I know he's with it and he's playing with a full deck and he takes things seriously. The masked doctor looks more serious and is acting more serious that's all there is to it..the masked doctor looks more powerful and able because they are with their mask..its like the masked doctor has more energy for what is at stake.The masked doctor just looks and acts more professional and serious which is what I look for in a doctor. Its hard to respect a maskless doctor that isn't ready for some random person that has a cough and is sputtering in the face of the doctor.. the maskless doctor is a sitting duck.. quack quack... I respect a person that takes things seriously! A masked doctor simply leaves a maskless doctor in the dust when it comes to trust, readiness, and magnitude of seriousness....

...There are no two ways about it, the Masked Doctors and Masked Nurses look like they are ready to ROCK!


Get this: Many of these topics even including my own posts in this Data Report Info forum often have a lot more views than the YouTube channels that local Doctors host.

I'd like to say as well that I have absolutely nothing to lose by asking meaningful questions in public as to if particular doctors and nurses mask around patients that are having gall bladder surgery and I have everything to lose by not asking and could regret it for the rest of my life if I never asked.


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