Mary Daniel took a job as a dishwasher at a nursing home so she could visit her husband amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mary Daniel took a job as a dishwasher at a nursing home so she could visit her husband. Mary Daniel visited her husband Steve every day at his Florida memory care center until they stopped allowing visitors in March because ofDaniel said the isolation took a toll on her 66-year-old husband, who has Alzheimer's. So when the facility offered her a part-time dishwashing job, she jumped at the opportunity.
"That was our set routine and then all of a sudden I'm gone," she said. "And he doesn't know why. He can't understand why." Daniel, 57, said that getting to see her husband after she's done working is a perk, but she's scrubbing dishes, mopping floors and cleaning the kitchen just like any dishwasher.
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