The photographs GuelphToday's Kenneth Armstrong captured when given access to the Intensive Care Unit at Guelph General Hospital told a story themselves of what staff were going through during the pandemic. But the words they shared with him while he was there took it to a whole other level.
“We crumble at work and that’s okay too,” said nurse Carla Schwartz. “Sometimes we make it to the elevator before we cry all the way down or sometimes we make it to the car or sometimes we cry in here. Sometimes we are okay and then we watch television at home or read a book or doing something at home and see something that reminds us and we just lose it.”
It was a compelling and candid story that detailed what those working at Ground Zero of the pandemic are going through: the challenges they face both professionally and personally.
It was also GuelphToday's favourite story of the year.
