Comstock's magazine 0620 - June June 2020 | Page 31

like the coronavirus
pandemic increase stress,
especially for first responders,
but there are ways to cope
HELPCrises
for the
HELPERS
BY Sena Christian | PHOTOS BY Ryan Angel Meza
eather Donaldson was on a ski trip in Tahoe last
December when she “got a little overconfident” and
fell. She heard two pops but skied the rest of the way
down and did one last run before she, her fiance and friends packed
it up. She tried to work the following day at her job as a critical care
nurse in the intensive care unit at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento,
but she was sent home on crutches. She had torn her ACL,
but because about half of the ligament remained attached, the injury
could heal with physical therapy.
“That was like this major thing I was wondering how I was going
to get to the other side of, and then the pandemic happened, and I
was like, ‘Oh, God,’” Donaldson says.
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