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
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.
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.
I am submitting this plastic chicken to honor my father, Keith Poehlmann, to be included in the Art Heals Utah project. Keith was a U of U alum and his family had a chicken hatchery on State St. in Salt Lake City for a number of years. Keith loved his time in Utah and spent… Continue reading A plastic chicken to honor my father, Keith Poehlmann
My physical memento donation is my badge holder. It pictures a stethoscope looped into a heart. It was a gift from the University of Utah years ago. I dedicate it to HEALTHCARE WORKERS near and far. I acknowledge the suffering you have seen and experienced. I acknowledge your moral injury and burnout. I acknowledge your… Continue reading Dedicated to HEALTHCARE WORKERS near and far…
