Health care worker donates free makeovers to hospice patients
Photo provided by Narissa Carpenter-Harper
and last updated 2021-04-18 13:08:45-04
(WXYZ) â A metro Detroit health care worker is making a difference for hospice patients by volunteering her time and special skills in a unique way. Sheâs putting smiles on their faces and lifting spirits, one makeover at a time.
âThey want to have some confidence. They havenât smiled in quite some time,â said Narissa Carpenter-Harper, founder of âHair I Am.â The nursing assistant who cares for patients in hospice is lending extra time at no cost, to warm hearts during the pandemic.
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Thank you for your service : Rochester church develops ministry to show gratitude to health care professionals
Christ United Methodist Church wants to say thank you to the health care workers who ve been involved in fighting COVID-19. 6:30 am, Apr. 8, 2021 ×
Daphne Soleil, community healers ministry leader, left, and Rev. Elizabeth Macaulay, lead pastor of Christ United Methodist Church, have started a new ministry focused on health care workers. April 7, 2021. (Ken Klotzbach / kklotzbach@postbulletin.com)
Earlier this year, the Rev. Elizabeth Macaulay, lead pastor at Christ United Methodist Church in Rochester, and member Daphne Soleil took part in a Zoom meeting and listened as health care workers from the church described personal stories and the toll in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
For months, Aliyah Hashmi would watch her mother, Dr. Sayeeda Azra Jabeen, a hospitalist/internist at HSHS St. John s Hospital in Springfield, come home tired and often in tears from 12- to 14-hour shifts taking care of COVID-19 patients.
In October, Hashmi s grandfather and Jabeen s father, Zaheer Hussain, died in Bangalore, India. Six months before, he had been treated for COVID-19 and been released from the hospital, though the family believes the virus may have played a part in him having an apparent heart attack.
With a double punch to the gut, Hashmi, a freshman at Springfield High School, knew she had to do something.
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