Corona intensive care nurse shakes us up: "I cry every day now"

It is an insight into the bitter everyday life in the clinic in coronavirus times: nurse Marie Krzykalla reports on the pain of patients and her colleagues.

• A Berlin nurse experiences extreme situations in the intensive care unit in the corona crisis. 
• After a bitter situation in a supermarket, she writes a stirring Facebook post. 
• Here you will find the basic facts about the corona virus * and the corona news from Germany. You can also find current case numbers in Germany as a map * as well as the latest corona numbers for infected and dead people from all over the world.

Berlin - Marie Krzykalla strives every day with her colleagues for the life of Corona patients . She is a  nurse in a Berlin intensive care unit *. In the front row in the fight against the virus. 

All the more disappointing was an experience that she recently had in a supermarket when she was 25 years old. This setback has kept her so busy that she is now addressing the public with a Facebook post. It was now shared by thousands. Many thank her and show her respect. Will her sentences shake up the unreasonable? 

Corona nurse churns bitter encounter in a supermarket

Krzykalla writes that another customer in the supermarket has come too close to her. She kindly asked him to keep the specified minimum distance. "This corona stuff is on my sack," he said back. Marie Krzykalla patiently tried to explain to him that she was working in an intensive care unit and that the situation there was really serious. But the man was not impressed by these first-hand experiences either: “I can't help it that they work there. Look ahead, you have your distance, ”he continues to pat. 

At that moment Marie Krzykalla was "flabbergasted" at first, but at home she opened Facebook and worked up the situation. They are words that come close - and make you think. She wrote the lines not just for herself, but for all healthcare workers. 

Coronavirus: "People die every day after a long period of torture in the hospital"

“ For all of you who are saying that the numbers are going down etc., I have to answer them clearly: it is bad. People die every day after bad courses and long torture in the hospital. The colleagues (doctors and nurses) stand in full gear for hours on the beds and really try everything to get the people through. When you're in a corona room, you're wrapped up in protective clothing. You sweat underneath, you can't breathe, you can't even scratch yourself when something itches. You can't get out of your clothes for hours, you can't drink, you can't go to the toilet. For hours. You have to concentrate all the time and make no mistakes. Put your own needs completely behind. "

The encounter in the supermarket stirred her emotionally - especially since it was not the first of its kind:  "I cry every day after such encounters." It is incomprehensible to her why she and her colleagues have to tear themselves apart for people like the ignorant customer in the supermarket . Your description of the situation in the intensive care unit was not an exaggeration, but "bitter reality". 

Berlin nurse has a clear corona message to the impatient and ignorant: "Pull yourself together!"

She would like to trade with people who are bored now and who are complaining about "camp freak". "I wish I was in this situation. Instead, I and many others have to go to the hospital and risk my health. "

In the end, she has a clear message:  "Pull yourself together!" An important call in days when the calls for loosening are steadily increasing * - and the discipline in compliance with the corona protective measures is decreasing *.

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