Registered nurse Angie Pigg never has seen anything like the coronavirus pandemic, and she hopes to never see anything like it again.
Registered nurse Angie Pigg never has seen anything like the coronavirus pandemic, and she hopes to never see anything like it again.
Pigg works as a charge nurse in the intermediate care unit at St. Mary Medical Center in Hobart, where 17 of the unit s 32 beds have been designated for COVID patients. It s been very challenging, she said. I don t think in my almost 21 years of nursing I ve seen so many nurses cry and break down. Â
Nurses feel like all they ve done is lost, she said.Â
To rise from any major challenge or catastrophe, it becomes necessary to both see and see through the enemy standing in the way.
In 2020 and into the new year, COVID-19 soundly socked our nation, state and Region in the chops, and it did so on nearly every level of our humanity, society and economy.
But this is Northwest Indiana.
We re tough. We always have been.
And the examples abound of how our Region has looked COVID-19 in the eye, stared it down and then saw through the pandemic to a stronger Region waiting on the other side.
Today, we begin publishing a series of special sections over the next three Sunday s in The Times and on nwi.com that show real reasons for the hope we all long to feel.