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Yes, Mom, I'm Here.  Share   Share Trending And this will be our first Christmas apart. She lived with us for 25 years. But after her stroke, she'd forget to take her medication. And when she entered the nursing home in March, we thought we would be able to see her and take her home for visits. But the COVID lockdowns came immediately. I haven't given her a hug or a kiss since then. I know we're not alone. There are people all over the world who wish they could touch and hug the ones they love. And many have lost their parents to COVID in nursing homes.

John Kass Zbigniew Bzdak My mother is 90 years old, one of the elderly isolated in nursing homes, unable to hug and kiss her children, alone because of the pandemic. And this will be our first Christmas apart. She lived with us for 25 years. But after her stroke, she’d forget to take her medication. And when she entered the nursing home in March, we thought we would be able to see her and take her home for visits. But the COVID lockdowns came immediately. I haven’t given her a hug or a kiss since then. I know we’re not alone. There are people all over the world who ...

And this will be our first Christmas apart. She lived with us for 25 years. But after her stroke, she'd forget to take her medication. And when she entered the nursing home in March, we thought we would be able to see her and take her home for visits. But the COVID lockdowns came immediately. I haven't given her a hug or a kiss since then. I know we're not alone. There are people all over the world who wish they could touch and hug the ones they love. And many have lost their parents to COVID in nursing homes. "But here, we don't talk about missing everyone so much," she told me last week. "O...