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'I didnât even know that I needed to cry': Nurses on front line honor COVID-19 patients who died
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Updated: 7:53 AM CST Dec 27, 2020
Alexis Mathews
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'I didnât even know that I needed to cry': Nurses on front line honor COVID-19 patients who died
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Updated: 7:53 AM CST Dec 27, 2020
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THEY LOST TO THE VIRUS. >> 29. THATâS THE NUMBER OF ROCKS PLACED INSIDE A VASE OF WATER TO REPRESENT THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO DIED OF COVID-19 IN ONE UNIT AT U OF L JEWISH HOSPITAL. >> WE LOST A PATIENT THIS MORNING. >> NURSES IN THE HOSPITALâS SEVEN TOWERS UNIT HAVE BEEN COMFORTING PATIENTS SINCE MARCH. >> WE ARE HOLDING THEIR HANDS AS THEY TAKE A LAST BREATH. ITâS DEVASTATING. >> WATCHING THE FEAR GROW IN THEIR EYES WHEN THEY KNOW THEY HAVE COVID. >> THEY ARE HONORING THEM IN A ROCK-LAYING CEREMONY. ONE BY ONE, NURSES WROTE THE INITIALS OF PATIENTS THEYâVE LOST ON ROCKS. >> I DID NOT KNOW I NEEDED TO CRY SO MUCH. >> HOLDING HANDS AND EACH OTHER, THEY THEN PLACED THE ROCKS INSIDE THE VASE. >> WE ALL HAVE A STORY. AT LEAST ONE. >> AT THE END, THE WATER WAS POURED OVER PLANTS AT THE HOSPITAL. >> I JUST HOPE THEY FIND COMFORT AND KNOW THAT THEY WERE NOT ALONE WHEN THEY PASSED AWAY, THAT WE WERE WITH THEM EVERY LAST MINUTE. >> THE PATIENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES MAY BE AT PEACE, BUT THE FIGHT CONTINUES ON A DAILY BASIS WITH A TEAM OF NURSES. >> USUALLY YOU GO HOME PHYSICALLY DRAINED, TIRED, BUT THIS IS THAT TIMES FIVE, YOU KNOW? SOMETIMES 10.