Whether records were set today for temperature or not doesn't matter much, especially to people who have to work outside. It's cold and they know it. When the weather gets like this the media will often run a profile on cops or construction workers doing their jobs despite bone-chilling winds.
But I'd like to give my own shout-out to our home care nurses, aides and therapists who like the proverbial letter carriers are out there "in rain, in sleet and snow" and, of course, cold. Their clients depend on them and they deliver. Today, we estimate about 20,000 home care visits will be made in Massachusetts from sun-up to way past sundown. Medicines will be dispensed and bandages changed. Vital signs will be checked and limbs rehabilitated. Comfort and companionship just come with the service.
It was in 1957 that famous fictional nurse Cherry Ames had her assignment as a visitin
g nurse in New York City. Cherry worried about how she would be perceived - as "a stranger." Her supervisor corrected her: "It's hard to explain, but when you go to somebody's door and they light up and say 'thank goodness the nurse is here'.... well it's pretty wonderful."
A little warmth on a cold New England day.
But I'd like to give my own shout-out to our home care nurses, aides and therapists who like the proverbial letter carriers are out there "in rain, in sleet and snow" and, of course, cold. Their clients depend on them and they deliver. Today, we estimate about 20,000 home care visits will be made in Massachusetts from sun-up to way past sundown. Medicines will be dispensed and bandages changed. Vital signs will be checked and limbs rehabilitated. Comfort and companionship just come with the service.
It was in 1957 that famous fictional nurse Cherry Ames had her assignment as a visitin
g nurse in New York City. Cherry worried about how she would be perceived - as "a stranger." Her supervisor corrected her: "It's hard to explain, but when you go to somebody's door and they light up and say 'thank goodness the nurse is here'.... well it's pretty wonderful."A little warmth on a cold New England day.
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