by Wesley Bryant | Jun 1, 2021 | Feature
In patient after patient, the COVID-19 virus attacks your lungs. You may have heard that it contributes to pneumonia or COVID pneumonia. The virus causes inflammation in the lungs. With inflamed lungs comes fluid. The organ usually filled with air begins to fill with...
by Wesley Bryant | Jun 1, 2021 | Feature
‘Am I completely gowned up? Do I have everything on correctly?’ Jarylin Bishop thought as she stood in front of the doorway to the patient’s room. On the other side of the door was her first COVID-positive patient. She started her job just a few weeks before and was...
by Wesley Bryant | Jun 1, 2021 | Feature
Cathy Purcell is a certified nursing assistant, or CNA, in Shelbyville. She lives in Unionville, just a quick 17-minute drive up the road from the hospital. She lives on the same road as her mother, step-dad, aunt, uncle, and daughter—a place she has called home her...
by Wesley Bryant | Jun 1, 2021 | Feature
If you get the pleasure of walking by Rich- ard “Ricky” Donovan in the hallway of the hospital, he will speak to you. A simple hello, at the least, can brighten anyone’s day. Ricky is an environmental service worker for the Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital. He makes sure...
by Wesley Bryant | Jun 1, 2021 | Feature
“I heard a bad quote in mid-April of last year from a healthcare provider. It was not someone I knew directly,” Dr. Austin Mackens said. The bad quote he heard was “I did not sign up for this.” “My first thought was “No, this is what you signed up for. We signed up to...
