When health sciences students were allowed to return to using our building in May 2020, I was one of the few physically staffing the building. I make funny buttons for students every semester, usually bad puns about medicine, and decided to try and design something that might be funny but didn’t seem flippant about the… Continue reading Laugh to keep from crying
I’ve worked in healthcare for almost 20 years. Over the last two years I felt my empathy slipping away. It was scary. It was sad. I’m donating the rainbow off my crocs as my physical memento to symbolize my temporary loss of empathy and to symbolize the hope that comes with a rainbow. I look… Continue reading A temporary loss of empathy
February 29, 2020. Huntsman Cancer Hospital. 48 hours and counting down. Four months have passed since the recurrence put her in the hospital. Unaccountable fatigue and a persistent urinary tract infection were the first symptoms. Her lab results returned with creatinine flagged with the letter H, worse was to follow. And like that, a recovery… Continue reading Reflecting
Our family is contributing a tiny FISH and a tiny SEA TURTLE as our mementos. We love the Utah desert, but we NEED the ocean. We usually visit the ocean once or twice a year. Once COVID hit, we did not feel comfortable traveling, so no ocean trips. It felt sad and strange.
A moment of beauty and calm during a tumultuous spring.
Like so many others, the pandemic renewed my old hobbies while introducing me to new hobbies. For a while, it seemed like being outside was the only safe thing to do, so during that first pandemic summer my partner and I bought a new-to-us canoe from a guy in Ogden. Weekend after weekend, we took… Continue reading Canoe Life
It is getting better, but at times it has been a real struggle with anxiety, depression, and loneliness during the pandemic.At times, I feel like I have lost my mind, thus the small plastic brain as my physical memento.
We both tested positive for COVID-19 on a Monday (fully vaccinated). By Wednesday I started feeling better, but Wally entered the hospital. He slept on three beds; 1) ER, 2) Telemetry, and 3) ICU. On Friday he was gone. A Letter From Heaven When tomorrow starts without me, And I’m not here to see, If… Continue reading Wally & Jackie
This is a short video tribute of my father, Keith Poehlmann, a U of U alum and his family had a chicken hatchery on State St. in Salt Lake City for a number of years. The video can be viewed on Instagram (an account maybe required) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZj7kPIA_Qy/ Memento related to A plastic chicken to honor… Continue reading A video tribute to my father, Keith Poehlmann
I’ll do anything Emily tells me. I love this project already.
