Submitted by Sharon Calhoun / Andrew HallumWhen Vicki Henricks saw people on the news standing outside nursing home windows to talk to loved ones, she never thought she would do it.
Then, for Easter, Henricks dressed as the Easter Bunny and put a sign reading “Everybody Loves You” on the bird feeder outside her father’s window at NHC Healthcare in Rossville, in Walker County, Georgia.
She spoke with her 90-year-old father through the window, but she did not like the separation. She did not like being unable to see her father up close. She did not like having a piece of glass and the delay of the phones between her and another of his seemingly endless jokes.
But Henricks understood the need for quarantine.
“I thought, well, he’s not around anybody. He’s not having visitors. He’s not out shopping. I thought, well, he’s pretty safe,” Henricks said.