DaVita Williamstown is a small clinic in Northern Kentucky where patients are not like any others. They are the type of patients who know everything about each other – including each-others battles. A patient of Williamstown was battling cancer in the middle of a pandemic last year. He had no immune system and was doing everything he could to stay safe. If we prayed for anyone not to get Covid, it was J because he was so medically unstable. J, unfortunately, contracted Covid mid-last year. This was Williamstown's first Covid diagnosed patient of 2020. We were all worried that he wouldn't make it, even though he is a tough, determined man.
After months of being hospitalized and then in rehab, he conquered his fight with Covid and came back to our facility. Sherry was the nurse who called and checked in on him daily. She was also the nurse that reached out to his daughter offering her words of encouragement and told her what a strong, good man her father was. When J returned back to the facility, his chair was waiting on him, fully decorated with balloons and a t-shirt that said, "I punched COVID-19 in the face." This was met with J's sweet laugh and a light in his eyes that had been gone for some time due to his fight with cancer. Sherry goes out of her way daily to make our patients and their families feel special, comforted and cared for. They aren't patients to Sherry – they are family.