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Dropbox Submission: Nurses - Hospital - Pins | Anonymous #1777 | These beautiful and inspiring pins were dropped in the U of U Hospital lobby Project Art Heals Utah dropbox. Wow! While much of the world stayed home during the early days of the pandemic, the nurses did not. They walked right into the "fire" taking care of patients. We see you. We appreciate y... | Dropbox Submission; Healthcare Workers; Hospital; Nurses; Pins |
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Dropbox Submission: Rosary | Anonymous #1785 | "This beautiful rosary was dropped in the U of U Hospital lobby Project Art Heals Utah dropbox. Wow! So powerful. Thank you." | Dropbox Submission; Hope; Prayer; Rosary; Hospital |
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Carole Sue Dornbusch | Donna Rae | Carole Sue Dornbusch. 12/24/40 - 1/4/22. Carole died of a blood clot due to COVID-19. Carole lived everyday shining the light of Jesus. She died in HIS name and is now at eternal peace. | Virtual Memento; Faith; Loss; Love |
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PPE Person | Chaplain Saundra Shanti | I drew PPE Person as a playful mascot during Covid. Occasionally PPE Person, covered in a blue gown and PAPR (protective hood), would accompany an email with a bit of arts-based inspiration for colleagues, such as a poem, video clip, or song. | Healthcare Workers; Virtual Memento; Drawing; Hope; Mask |
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For Marvin | Carmin | My grandfather, Marvin Stewart, passed away on June 20, 2020. I honor both his strength and his perseverance through the pain of a long illness. He did so with grace, and with his usual humor that was full of sarcasm and (very) dry wit. I miss him every day. My physical memento, a wooden tractor toy... | Grandfather; Physical Memento; Farming; Photograph; Grief; Loss |
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Tea message | Anonymous #1767 | this message was attached to my teabag. i snapped a pic of it in Jan 2022 when the whole world was raging with COVID and hospitals were overflowing again. just when I felt like I was starting to drown in repeat pandemic madness, my teabag helped ground me. 🙂 | Healthcare Workers; Virtual Memento; Hope; Inspiration; The Little Things |
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Hair care | Anonymous #1695 | No one in my family had any sort of haircut in the first year of the pandemic. We finally found a family friend we could hire to come to our house and do haircuts outside even in chilly and breezy weather. Thank goodness for her! She was a trooper. Here are a mini comb and a mini conditioner bottl... | Family; Physical Memento; Adaptability; Haircuts; Outdoors |
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2020 Multi-Faith Calendar Collage | Chaplain Saundra Shanti | I pulled the push-pin out of the plaster wall in my office and took down my 2020 multi-faith calendar. As part reflection, part act of aggression, I cut it apart. How could I collage these images, shapes and numbers to represent my own experience? I work on the Covid ICU at the University of Utah ho... | Brother; Daughter; Family; Father; Grandfather; Grandmother; Husband; Mother; Patient Experience; Self; Sister; Son; Virtual Memento; Wife; Art; Family; Flowers; Gratitude; Grief; Hope; Mask; Prayer |
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Praying by Zoom | Chaplain Saundra Shanti | Prayer is a common intervention to relieve stress and help patients cope during times of crisis and difficulty (Simão, T. P., Caldeira, S., & De Carvalho, E. C. (2016). For some, this act is personal and private, while others find solace in collective prayer. This is particularly true for families... | Family; Patient Experience; Story; Virtual Memento; Family; Hope; Prayer |
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The #s are overwhelming | Anonymous #1607 | These papers were donated together in the Project Art Heals Utah dropbox. Two slips of paper speak volumes about our shared and individual pandemic journeys. Every COVID number represents a human life, with a real hopes, aspirations, dreams, and defeats. | Healthcare Workers; Physical Memento; Grief; Photograph; Statistics |
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March 2020: missing my late husband during lockdown | MJB; LBL | In March 2020, I had been a widow for less than 2 years. LBL and I had been together for almost 30 years. I was living alone and finally starting to get into a daily routine of life without my late husband LBL. Global lockdown hit and it was lonely. Trying to keep my sense of humor, I created thi... | Couple; Family; Husband; Partner; Physical Memento; Story; Hope; Lockdown; Photograph; Smile; Widow |
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Dinosaur | Anonymous #1545 | The kids love seeing the dinosaur fossils at the U's Natural History Museum. Once COVID hit, we stopped going. It seems like a trivial loss, but it was our go-to family activity. How strange to feel scared of going to a museum. Fortunately, we made some trips to the desert and got to see real dinosa... | Family; Physical Memento; Dinosaur; Outdoors; Photograph |
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Two hearts became two angels | Falyn | My husband and I had two little hearts grow during the height of the pandemic in 2021. The first baby we lost naturally by way of a miscarriage- while the second was an ectopic pregnancy, meaning the embryo had to be surgically removed along with the uterine tube it accidentally started to grow into... | Physical Memento; Story; Photograph |
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Laugh to keep from crying | Donna Baluchi | 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 see... | Physical Memento; Self; Mask; Photograph; Smile |
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Matt's Bandana | Nicole Sletta; Matt Shelton | This memento is my former partner's bandana. He passed away at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. He committed suicide. He was 29. We were quarantining in the same town and I was afraid to visit him because I didn't want to expose him/be exposed to covid. I'm submitting this memento to highlight... | Friend; Partner; Story; Virtual Memento; Photograph |
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Trash | Anonymous #1491 | | Virtual Memento; Healthcare Workers; Mask; Photograph; Stranger |
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Mom | Anonymous #1497 | Mom was diagnosed Jan 14, 2022 in the ED with MI, stroke, plural effusion and COVID+. Died Jan 20. I'm immunocompromised and had to watch the funeral at home, alone. | Mother; Virtual Memento; Photograph |
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A temporary loss of empathy | HCW | 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 forward... | Healthcare Workers; Physical Memento; Hope |
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Reflecting | Peter Strohmeyer; Paula Rudd | 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, w... | Story; Virtual Memento; Wife; Cancer; Gratitude; Hope; Huntsman Cancer Hospital; Photograph; Portrait; Scenic |
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Reflecting | Peter Strohmeyer; Paula Rudd | 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, w... | Story; Virtual Memento; Wife; Cancer; Gratitude; Hope; Huntsman Cancer Hospital; Photograph; Portrait; Scenic |
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We missed the ocean | Anonymous #1321 | 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. | Family; Physical Memento; Ocean; Outdoors; Photograph |
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A plastic chicken to honor my father, Keith Poehlmann | Anonymous #760; Keith Poehlmann | 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 every free moment in Litt... | Father; Physical Memento; Story; Chicken; Photograph |
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April 28, 2020 | Anonymous #1314 | A moment of beauty and calm during a tumultuous spring. | Pet; Virtual Memento; Dog; Flowers; Gratitude; Hope; Pet; Photograph; Smile; Spring |
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Canoe Life | Emily Izzo | 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 it... | Partner; Self; Story; Virtual Memento; Canoe; Hobbies; Outdoors; Smith and Morehouse Reservoir; Water Color |
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Wally & Jackie | Anonymous #1091 | 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,... | Couple; Story; Virtual Memento; Photograph; Prayer |