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* Valerie Wells at the Decatur Herald & Review…
Lindsay Ippel Douglass has worked in emergency rooms and Level 1 trauma centers as a nurse. She’s also worked in the intensive care unit at Decatur Memorial Hospital after she and husband Chris moved back from Chicago several years ago.
When the COVID-19 unit opened at the hospital, she volunteered to work there, too. One evening as she headed to work, her husband and two small children were outdoors, and her husband asked a passerby to help them cheer for her as she left.
“The next night my former basketball coach from Millikin, Lori Kerans, and her family as well as my in-laws who all live nearby joined them,” Douglass said. “Since then it has grown to not only include many neighbors but other family, friends, Millikin teammates and friends and other supporters from my church.”
The support for her and her fellow frontline healthcare workers helps keep their spirits up, she said, as well as donations of food and protective equipment such as masks, safety glasses and headbands.
* This was on Twitter a few days ago. Make sure to turn up the sound…
This guy's neighbor is an ICU nurse in #DecaturIL. This started with her husband serenading her every night to get her pumped before her shift… now the entire neighborhood is involved. You must see this video! #AllInIllinois #COVID19#shelteringinplace https://t.co/aaChESBLsw
— Katie Hepworth Spoon (@spoonzoo) April 3, 2020
Another video is here.
[Headline changed to reflect her actual name. Sorry about that. Been a day.]
posted by Rich Miller
Friday, Apr 10, 20 @ 11:41 am
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It’s great that we’re recognizing healthcare workers, but let us not forget that our government and the healthcare systems we support are sending our nurses, physicians, and other support into situations where they have to risk their lives to provide care to patients because we failed to provide them with the equipment that will protect them from infection.
At the end of this we will need to take an accounting of the number of men and women that died in this country because we — through our governments — did not truly value their lives enough to insure that that we actually had the materials available to protect them from catching this infection.
Lets not turn this into the same malarky where we tie a yellow ribbon around a tree and pretend like that’s the same thing as actually supporting service members. If we really cared about our healthcare providers, we wouldn’t be sending them into work without the materials they need to protect them in order to respond to a pandemic that we knew was eventually going to happen.
We have let our governments and large healthcare corporations put their dollars ahead of the lives of our care providers, and if we step away from this pandemic without focusing on the deaths that we allowed to occur on the part of our societal negligence we don’t deserve any of the sacrifices that we never should be asking these people to make.
Comment by Candy Dogood Friday, Apr 10, 20 @ 11:52 am
Does this superstar head out in a chauffered black SUV ? A high end sports car ?
Nope. Nurse Lindsay opens the door to her Prius, with her keys in one hand and coffee tumbler in the other. And leaves her husband and kids to spend 12+ hours risking her own health to help others.
Rock on, Nurse Lindsay.
Comment by Scott Cross for President Friday, Apr 10, 20 @ 12:17 pm
Rich, did you mean to put Lindsay Ippel Douglass in the post title ?
With love,
Someone quarantined with way too much free time
Comment by Scott Cross for President Friday, Apr 10, 20 @ 12:22 pm
Rich, thank you for keeping us all informed, educated and amused during this stressful time.
Comment by Scott Cross for President Friday, Apr 10, 20 @ 2:08 pm
I don’t cry easily….but yeah, thanks, healthcare workers.
Comment by UGH Friday, Apr 10, 20 @ 3:00 pm