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Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the Medical Director at Connecticut Hospice, Dr. Joseph Sacco, has kept staff and volunteers well-informed of policy changes, PPE protocols, local and national COVID-19 data, and much more, through a “Daily Update” email.
He has also tested staff frequently for coronavirus to ensure a safe environment for all, and helped to care for non-COVID and COVID-positive patients alike, with his colleagues on the Interdisciplinary Team.
Some of the most appreciated and morale-boosting gestures he has shared with staff in his Daily Updates are the jokes and contests he has inserted at the end of each email.
A recent Haiku contest drew entries from almost every department of this non-profit organization - Nursing, Dietary, IT, Security/Building Services, Arts, Medicine, Social Work, Volunteers, Business office, & Administration. No subject was off-limits, although the COVID crisis was clearly on many minds. To read the entries, scroll below.
More recently, Dr. Sacco invited Connecticut Hospice staff to submit photographs on the theme “Beauty in Adversity”.
Window visits, at work and at home, were one recurring theme; social isolation featured prominently too. But love, family, humor and resilience were in strong evidence throughout.
We invite you to enjoy some of the submitted photographs, and may you find your own beauty in adversity.
Got both my gloves on
Ignoring my ear rug burn
Caused by my tight mask
Helping families
Supporting dying loved ones
Through their hardest times
I am leaving earth
Skies are calling me to go
My nurse lifts me up
My nurse blesses my
Last breath as I float away
No pain, only love
There was a big tree
That was in the blue ocean
We love that big tree
We will live to fight
That dreaded Covid nineteen
We will hug again
Our workers need masks
So who are you gonna call
Gonna call Batman
Dress in blue scrubs again
Think about some jewelry. Nah.
Lipstick on a pig.
Wash your hands, be safe
Put on a face mask people
Social distance now!
Patience takes hard work
Humans need much more practice
Smiling helps a lot
Gloomy rainy skies
Give way to sunny weather
I want summer heat
This too shall pass then
We will celebrate our work
Each other our caring
Can’t keep my mouth shut
The filter has big holes
Orange looks good on me
Another day home
Yet one more day staying home
Flattening the curve
Three days in the past
Or three days in the future
Fourteen days from then
alone a woman dies
fever ablaze yet pallid
breath halts then expires
Bud, breeze, buzz and bloom
Harken to our higher self
Faith in renewal
My feet in the sand
A frozen drink in my hand
Please bring on summer
In a world ablaze
We cry for our leaders help
The silence deafens
Touch my cheek softly
Say goodbye without weeping
Heaven awaits me
Fearsome pandemic
Exceptional caring folks
Clouds will part some day
Row, row, row our boat
Covidly down the stream, Life
Is NOT but a Dream
Homeschooling my kid(s).
Home care patients need me, too.
Remember to breathe.
Need toilet paper...
#askingforafriend
Charmin or Scott, Please?
Trip to London, nope
The high school musical, nope
First time to prom, nope
Zoom, zoom happy hour
One drink tastes good going down
Two, three even more
History and background of Haiku poetry
Using humor to cope with stress
How nature can restore your health
Ways to maintain your creativity and mental health
Have you seen Beauty in Adversity too? Capture what that means to you in a photograph and send it to us to share on this page. Do you love to compose haiku poetry? All photos and haikus must be your own work, must be copyright free, and you agree that there will be no financial liability to Connecticut Hospice or its employees if your entry is displayed.
Send photos and haikus to Director of Arts Katherine Blossom at [email protected]
As a not-for-profit, we depend on generous donors to help us provide customized services and therapies that aren’t completely covered by Medicaid, Medicare, or private insurance.
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