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For the first time in more than a year, when Pastor Miles McPherson looked out into the Rock Church auditorium during Sunday’s Point Loma service, the faces of his congregants were looking back. He was beaming.
“It was so good to see our family back together,” he said of the weekend service. “It was like Thanksgiving or Christmas when you get to reunite with your family and reestablish your relationships.”
Unlike some other large churches, The Rock hasn’t held indoor services since the state first announced restrictions for places of worship that aimed to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. Following the state’s decision to lift mandatory restrictions for churches last week, The Rock welcomed people inside. More than 5,000 attended indoor services across four campuses on Sunday.
Aidan Gardiner, The New York Times
Published: 13 Mar 2021 10:59 AM BdST
Updated: 13 Mar 2021 11:01 AM BdST Gabrielle Dawn Luna, who followed her father into emergency nursing, sits for a portrait at her home in Woodbridge, NJ, on Jan 31, 2021. She was the last person to hold her father s hand when he died of COVID-19 in April at her hospital in Teaneck, NJ (Calla Kessler/The New York Times)
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As an emergency room nurse in the same hospital where her father lay dying of COVID last March, Luna knows firsthand what it is like for a family to hang on to every new piece of information. She has become acutely aware of the need to take extra time in explaining developments to a patient’s relatives who are often desperate for updates.
Gabrielle Dawn Luna sees her father in every patient she treats.
As an emergency room nurse in the same hospital where her father lay dying of Covid last March, Ms. Luna knows firsthand what it’s like for a family to hang on to every new piece of information. She’s become acutely aware of the need to take extra time in explaining developments to a patient’s relatives who are often desperate for updates.
And Ms. Luna has been willing to share her personal loss if it helps, as she did recently with a patient whose husband died. But she has also learned to withhold it to respect each person’s distinct grief, as she did when a colleague’s father also succumbed to the disease.
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