The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic continues to have a direct negative impact on the healthcare system and on patients who desperately need lifesaving surgery. There aren’t enough intensive care unit beds available for people who have cancer and need to have the tumors removed. And the bed shortage is because of unvaccinated patients who end up in the hospital with Covid.
Artist and woodworker Amanda Harris, from Portland, has openly shared her story about her fight with a brain tumor, that might be cancerous, on TikTok. She explained that she cannot have the surgery done to remove her tumor because there is a lack of ICU beds. She urged people to get vaccinated and boosted so that she and others like her can get the procedures that they need.
As things currently stand, Amanda is stuck waiting to hear back about her surgery. It could be weeks, even months before there’s a slot available, and she was in tears in one of her latest videos. You’ll find Amanda’s story below, dear Pandas.
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Amanda, who has a brain tumor, shared the reason why she can’t get surgery
She explained how there are no free ICU beds available
Here is her video in full
@mechanicaleraser #greenscreen #braintumor #neurosurgery #icu #unvaccinated #sicktok ♬ original sound – Amanda
In another video, she once again begged people to get vaccinated and boosted for their own sake and for others
Amanda was in tears in one of her most recent videos because she still doesn’t have a fixed date for her surgery
@mechanicaleraser #braintumor #neurosurgery #covid #getvaccinated #getboosted #siktok ♬ original sound – Amanda
In another video, she shared that many other people are facing the same challenges as she is
@mechanicaleraser Thank you to all those who’ve shared their own stories #covid #getvaccinated ♬ State Lines – Novo Amor
Amanda went to the California College of the Arts and then finished her studies at the Oregon College of Art and Craft. She’s a big fan of painting as well as woodworking and continues working with both.
It is frustrating and heartbreaking to see Amanda in tears—she’s stuck not knowing when her lifesaving procedure can even take place. It’s unclear when any ICU beds will become available, as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to spread. It’s unclear whether or not the tumor pressing up against her brain stem is cancerous or not until it gets removed.
According to Amanda, the main reason for this is that not enough people are vaccinated against Covid, therefore, when they get ill, there’s a higher chance that they will end up in hospital. This means there’s a long backlog of patients without Covid who are pretty much stuck in limbo. Having to live with that kind of fear sounds overwhelming and soul-crushing. It takes a lot of bravery to go through this.
NPR reported back in August that the situation was critical and pushed hospitals to the brink in many states, meaning that some overwhelmed hospitals even had to put critically ill Covid patients on planes, helicopters, and ambulances and send them to other states for treatment.
Meanwhile, the shortage of ICU beds isn’t an ‘American-only’ problem, it affects many parts of the world. For example, in the United Kingdom, one patient had her surgery canceled a whopping three times in a month. Gillian Crawford, who lives in Dundee in Scotland, was then scheduled to travel to the closest specialist center in Manchester for the operation.
Here’s how some people reacted to Amanda’s videos about ICU beds and vaccinations
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