A nurse practitioner and fourth year medical student from Edmonton is sharing her experience inside a hospital’s intensive care unit.

“We… feel like this is just the beginning and we are already so tired,” Brandy Love explained.

She’s been working elsewhere in the hospital as part of her rotations, but on Friday, Love picked up her first shift inside an ICU since the second wave struck.

“I’ve been a nurse for over 16 years and during that time I’ve been a nurse practitioner, mostly in critical care, for the last 11 years.

“I’ve worked through SARS, I’ve worked through another virus called MERS, I worked through H1N1 when it was really bad in 2009,” she said.

“It’s a combination of just how many patients there are right now, as well as just how sick and how debilitated they are right now.”

On Nov. 1, there were 28 COVID-19 positive patients in Alberta’s ICUs and 115 people being treated in other areas of the province’s hospitals. Those numbers more than tripled within the month.