Today I got a hug that I didn’t even know that I needed. As I sat in my office pouring over reports and preparing for our upcoming Board of Directors meeting, one of our case directors came into my office in tears and asked for a hug. I was expecting the worst and said, “Oh my gosh- WHAT’S WRONG?!” She said, “No, nothing, this hug is for you.”
She had just come from Walmart where she purchased an air mattress for a grandmother that had come into ACO for assistance. This elderly woman was giving her bed to her grandchildren that she was attempting to raise, house, clothe and feed while also caring for her daughter on palliative care and living on a ventilator. This grandmother was painfully sleeping on the floor every night.