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In this month’s number you can find a series of interviews with sisters, collaborators, volunteers and family members talking about “the celebration of Christmas in times of Covid19”
Here you can find the first one:
Pierangela Shaw Sherman
Relative of a Sisters Hospitallers user in Uruguay.
“It fills me with peace and joy to know that my mother is well cared for.”
My mother, Berta Sherman, has lived at the Sisters Hospitallers’ Benito Menni geriatric centre in Montevideo (Uruguay) since July 2017. Before her admission, she was increasingly confused and had suffered a serious episode of disorientation, which led us to seek professional help. After visiting several centres for the elderly, we arrived at the Sisters Hospitallers. Their home provides the necessary medical care and a pleasant environment in keeping with custom. Since she arrived, my mother’s medical care has been excellent and the sense of humanity in the home is incomparable. In her first year as a resident, she returned to a healthy weight and regained her spark and insight, despite her failing memory. The centre offers her a refuge, where all of her needs are met. She has found spiritual support and affection, for which she is grateful every day.
Christmas in excellent care
This Christmas, her grandchildren and great-grandchildren had tickets to travel to Uruguay to spend the holidays with her, but they will not make the voyage due to COVID-19. I will go alone and hope my brother can join us. We will avoid restaurants and the family gatherings of the past, but nevertheless, it will be a great joy and a tremendous blessing.
We are grateful to the home that cares for her, that keeps her pain-free and encourages her to celebrate life. We see her exercising, painting, attending Mass, watching movies, taking part in events that make her feel happier than ever.
In light of the COVID-19 situation, I feel anxiety on a personal, family, and global level, but it fills me with peace and joy to know that my mother is well cared for by the Sisters Hospitallers. My wish this Christmas is to feel her close, happy, and safe, in the excellent care of the home.
