The Call

Just got the official call informing me that as of tomorrow I am redeployed full-time to a CHSLD, aka ground zero of the COVID-19 outbreak in Quebec. I am not a doctor or a nurse; I am a pediatric speech-language pathologist. I have no training or experience with this population. I don’t know yet what I’ll be doing, but I’ve been assured it is unrelated to my profession.

You’ll hear a lot in the next days and weeks about reinforcements from doctors and nurses, but it is much more than doctors and nurses. You’ll hear about brave volunteers, but we did not volunteer. You’ll hear that we are going because we care, and this is true, but we’re also going because our contracts will be terminated if we refuse.

So anyway, if you were wondering how bad the situation is. It’s this bad.

Day 1 (Part 1)

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