He told CNN, “I just saw what kind of stress and work has been done on him and his colleagues and I thought, you know, there’s a way we can give back and show support.”
She just kept up the expectations of her friends, but the group has grown to more than 12,000 members in just three weeks and hundreds of health care workers have been adopted.
“We lost count when we killed a thousand,” Dendrend said.
Participants, nurses and other health care workers may post a little information about them and a link to their Amazon wish list.
“If you read a lot of Amazon links, they want compression socks or a new pair of shoes, or a coffee mug, candy.” “At the end of the day when they come home from work there are a few little things that kind of brighten their emotions.”
Gifts have also come from grateful members of the public, doctors, who embrace the full units of the hospital and other nurses.
She said she has heard from many people who have made new friends through the group.
“It’s no longer just a gift-giving page. It’s something where they’ve got the support of their peers.”
Danderande said she, her husband and her daughter all had Covid-19 in October. They are doing a good job and they were never hospitalized, but she gave the first understanding of what to do with health care workers.
He says he spends about four hours a day running the group and has hired three of his friends to help.
One of her new volunteers is a hospice nurse and was one of the first people to be adopted by the group.
She told KETV that she was adopting other nurses to pay further.
“I always deal with death,” said Eps-Martinez. “These other nurses are not used to this. It’s hard on them. They deal with death, but not like this.”
Dandrend had planned to run the group for only a few weeks, but says it doesn’t seem appropriate to stop now that the case is likely to happen.
“We’ve got these people who go to work day in and day out, and they’re tired, and they leave work with tears.” “And this is when they need the support of all of us more than ever.”
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