Mask Tree Pays Tribute To Healthcare Workers
Radiologic technologist Del Wehner decorated the tree using the masks she wears everyday while treating patients at Duke University Hospital. WRAL's Bryan Mims reports.
RALEIGH, N.C. (NBC News) — Face masks have become a symbol of 2020, and they aren’t that much fun to wear. However, health care workers have them on for many hours at a time, day after day.
Del Wehner is a radiologic technologist and is constantly wearing a mask for her job at Duke University Hospital.
“Every day, we’re wearing our masks. And when I’d come home at night, I could not part with my mask whatsoever,” she says.
She saved every mask she’s worn at work since the pandemic took hold; washed them all; then used them to decorated a cedar tree she planted outside her Raleigh home.
To Wehner, the mask-donned-tree is “overwhelmingly powerful.”
“It represents all of us in health care – what we’ve been going through in fighting this virus, so we could still be there for all of our patients and take care of all of our patients,” she says.
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