Month: April 2020

(Snippets from the frontline) COVID-19:  Comforting your hospitalized loved one Hospitals do not have enough PPE (Personal Protective Equipment – gloves, masks, gowns, shoe coverings), nor sufficient access to COVID-19 … Continue Reading →

(Snippets from the frontline) COVID-19:  Stigmatized by a cough I was pushing my shopping cart in an aisle with other nearby 6-foot-socially-distant customers.  Close by was an employee stocking shelves … Continue Reading →

(Snippets from the frontline) COVID-19:  Sweethearts They were childhood sweethearts.  Married for almost 60 years, and inseparable. Their neighbor was ill, and hospitalized.  Because of the COVID-19 crisis and hospital … Continue Reading →

(Snippets from the frontline) COVID-19:  Shucks My daughter works in an endemic area, with 7 colleagues and 5 patients positive for COVID-19.  So when she became ill, the test was … Continue Reading →

(Snippets from the frontline) COVID-19:  On being a senior Before they initiated one hour senior headstart at the groceries when toilet paper disappeared, all I wanted was gatorade.  Shelves were … Continue Reading →