This bathroom remodel was essential to us because it belonged to a member of the healthcare community. Here’s the remodel, but please keep reading for tips about our community’s critical population and some ideas about what we can do to support them.
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Working on the front, health care workers don’t want to get sick or get others sick, which leads to isolation, and some living in hotels. “It’s much worse than before” is what USC Medical Center reports. Johnson and Johnson recently reported the following, reminding us that we want to recognize our healthcare workers as heroes and remember that healthcare workers are people.
- Emotional exhaustion (82%)
- The trouble with sleep (70%)
- Physical exhaustion (68%)
- Feeling like emotional support was inadequate (39%)
- Interference with parental responsibilities (50% among those with children)
Georgetown Nurses say the first thing anyone can do to help is to stay home.
If you love someone who works in the medical field, give of yourself. Reach out, send a text, cook a meal, send a letter. Asha Greenidge of Cerritos is a teen in Cerritos who sent handwritten cards to health care workers and patients in her local hospital. Also, if you love someone in health care, give, but don’t take. Share, but don’t demand. Many reports talk about how health care workers have sensitive souls but have little emotions to share right now- which is understandable, to say the least. Listen and share. Here is a fascinating article about conversations between spouses and healthcare workers.
If you are struggling, seek out telemedicine and counseling services. Locally to our company, a few have found help through Tri-City Mental Health. This isn’t sponsored, and we have no affiliation. We just wanted to pass along a resource. Here is their website: https://www.tricitymhs.org/. You can also call them at (909) 623-6131
If you work in construction, be careful. Construction workers are among those getting infected the most by COVID-19. Sanitize, wear a mask, wash your hands, and stay home if you are sick. Take a rapid test. Communicate with your doctor.
Only a few more hours left of 2020, guys. Thank you, everyone, for your continued support this year.