7 amazing and inspiring stories that happened during the pandemic
'24.04.2020'
Source: health.mail.ru
Soon films will be made about this period, writes health.mail.ru.
For several months now, the planet has been covered by a pandemic of coronavirus infection - the number of infected has exceeded 2,5 million. Humanity is now in constant alarm due to fears for their own health and the health of their loved ones. It is concerned about the prospects of work, self-isolation, and an obscure future. But at the same time, amazing stories are happening in the world, designed to inspire each of us.
Wedding with Social Distance
Many couples have already planned a wedding in the spring and even in the conditions of an epidemic they did not cancel the celebration. But in some countries, as it turned out, it was simply impossible to hold weddings. But where it was allowed, the future spouses had to agree to unusual ceremonies.
For example, nurse Kelly Donoghue and policeman Andrew Sherlane decided to have a wedding ceremony right on the driveway to Kelly's house. Their wedding was scheduled for June 5, and it was planned that about 300 guests would arrive.
The situation in the USA has become complicated. It became clear that marriage would not work on schedule, but Donoghue and Sherlein found a way out.
There were many guests at their makeshift wedding, but they all watched the bride and groom from their cars. The next day, the couple returned to work - she went to the hospital, where she continued to book patients with COVID-19, and he went to the police station.
Kelly and Andrew are sure that they and their families needed a wedding - this event added positive to the life of the bride and groom and encouraged everyone. After quarantine, the couple plans to hold a large-scale ceremony, as was previously planned.
107 - not the time to die
It is known that elderly people are at increased risk; coronavirus infection for them is more often accompanied by serious complications and can result in death. A real miracle happened in Turkey: a 107-year-old woman defeated COVID-19 and became the second patient of this age to recover from coronavirus infection. Istanbul resident Havahan Karadeniz was hospitalized with cough and fever. She was discharged on April 13: she left the hospital to the applause of doctors and nurses. Havahan shared her impressions, noting that the staff was nice and the conditions of stay were good.
A few days earlier, another patient of the same age was discharged in the Netherlands. Cornelia Ras, who lives in a nursing home on the island of Gure-Overflakk, felt bad the day after her 107th birthday. She spent 2,5 weeks in the hospital and, much to the delight of herself and her many relatives, recovered.
Today, these two women are the oldest patients who have recovered from COVID-19.
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Acquaintance during a rooftop disco
Going on dates in isolation is, frankly, problematic. But American Jeremy Cohen came up with an original way to get out of the situation.
One day in quarantine, he noticed a girl dancing on the roof of the house opposite. The young people noticed each other, and soon Jeremy sent a drone to the girl who delivered her a note with his phone number and a call to write to him.
“By that time, I hadn’t been leaving home for a week and desperately needed at least some kind of communication with other people,” he said.
An hour later, the guy received an answer. Tori, that’s the name of the girl, continued the correspondence, and the next day the two decided to make a date. Tori is located on the roof, and Jeremy on his balcony: they drank wine, ate delicious food, waved to each other, exchanged messages.
Jeremy decided to go further and went on a real date with Tori, naturally, without neglecting the rules of quarantine. He took a bouquet of flowers and, climbing into a huge inflatable transparent bubble, went to a neighboring house.
Now Jeremy wants to sell the bubble at auction, and transfer the proceeds to a fund that helps doctors and nurses working in a pandemic.
Tori and Jeremy continue to communicate, inventing the most unusual ways for meetings and dates - they both assure that quarantine is no longer a boring time, because it has turned into an interesting pastime.
10 years of abstinence behind
Surprisingly, self-isolation benefited the inhabitants of the Hong Kong zoo Ocean Park. We cannot vouch for everyone, but the story that happened with the giant pandas Ying Ying and Le Le is proof of this.
The zoo was closed for visits in late January. Pandas have successfully mated for the first time since 2010, although scientists' efforts to reduce animals earlier in 10 years ended unsuccessfully. Now zoologists hope that the mating will end in pregnancy, the onset of which with natural fertilization is higher than with artificial. To find out whether a pregnancy has come, zoo workers hope in June.
Pandas are listed in the Red Book: in the world there are no more than 2000 of these animals living in nature, and about 400 more individuals are kept in zoos.
Congratulations on hospital gowns
Celebrating a birthday away from relatives and friends is always sad, especially hard when they cannot visit you in the hospital. It was in such a situation that one of the patients, whose name is not called, turned out to be - she was treated in a medical facility in Wuhan in February 2020.
The woman was in serious condition, and the doctors could not say when she would get better, go home and see loved ones. The patient told about all this to the 25-year-old nurse Sun Dianpeng, who worked in this hospital.
On that day, February 14, the young man decided to somehow cheer up the wards and wrote “Happy Valentine's Day” on his protective suit. An elderly patient noticed the inscription, shared her experiences with the nurse and said that today she was 70 years old.
Upon learning this, Dianpeng invited some of his colleagues to the patient’s room: doctors and nurses, also dressed in protective suits, sang a congratulatory song. Later, the woman said that it was the most unusual birthday of her.
Since then, the hospital's medical staff, following the example of Dianpeng, began to write different signs on their protective suits that helped to encourage patients.
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Support through window glass
Campbell's spouses have been married for over 60 years: both of them live in a nursing home Life Care Center in Washington. Gene Campbell, 89, was diagnosed with coronavirus infection, like some other older people in the center. His wife Dorothy was healthy, and for security reasons she was forbidden to communicate with her husband.
She, along with her loved ones, nevertheless found a way to support Gene during this difficult period. Dorothy came to the nursing home and was able to talk with her husband: she looked at him through the glass of the window and talked to him on the phone (touching photos of the spouses' communication circled the whole world).
Gene, fortunately, recovered, and now he and Dorothy can communicate without any restrictions.
LEGO marriage
Wedding photographer Chris Wallace was left without work during quarantine. However, he decided not to stop filming wedding ceremonies, even in self-isolation. To do this, Chris organized a wedding from LEGO, using a set that was stored in his house for more than 20 years.
Chris came up with a shooting scenario - he began with a romantic meeting of future spouses on the coast and ended, in fact, with a wedding. The ceremony was attended not only by friends and relatives, but also by special guests - Chewbacca, Han Solo from a set based on Star Wars.
In its блоге the photographer said that there could have been no wonderful wedding if it weren’t for quarantine - before the outbreak, Chris was constantly busy on the set and had virtually no free time. The LEGO wedding became incredibly popular in social networks, and Chris himself hastened to urge everyone not to lose hope in this difficult time, especially those who worked for themselves and were forced to remain without work.
