You're right though. I'd be pissed as hell if I woke up off the ventilator and my family refused to pull the plug and allowed them to amputate my arms instead.
Wes Ely, a critical care specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, recalls drawing blood from a COVID patient who was experiencing a pulmonary embolism. Despite the patient being on maximum blood thinners, “his blood clotted in the syringe before I could get it into the test tube,” Ely says. “I’ve never seen anything like that in my whole life. It was just the craziest thing.” Across the hall, a female COVID patient lost four limbs.
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