Buffalo Nursing Home Resident Gains 7-Year-Old Pen Pal
Some kids just have the biggest hearts, and that holds true to 11-year-old Leah Mihaly from the Rochester area.
During the peaks of the pandemic, nursing homes were closed for visitors, so Leah used the time to make a new friend at Buffalo s HighPointe on Michigan facility. She joined a pen pal program and was connected to Thelma Haskins, a long term resident in the facility.
According to WHAM, Leah says she wanted to reach out at a time when the pandemic has prevented residents like Haskins from seeing loved ones. Leah began writing to Thelma. Something about the two of them, despite their difference in age, clicked, and the two became great friends.