NONFICTION

Pandemic Diaries

What’s changed in a year?

Eileen Vorbach Collins
ILLUMINATION
Published in
5 min readMar 23, 2021

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Photo by Vera Davidova on Unsplash

As a home care nurse in Baltimore, I learned years ago how to get in and out of a house without touching any surface with my bare hands. My first AIDS patient had open sacral wounds and explosive diarrhea. I was nervous, so I called my supervisor for a reassuring pep talk.

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Eileen Vorbach Collins
ILLUMINATION

I write true stories I wish were fiction and fairy tales I wish were true. Author of award-winning essay collection: https://www.loveinthearchives.com/