You're listening to sound opinions and later in the show we're going to share our favorite songs about helping our neighbors in times of need.

But first, Jim and I are going to play rock doctors to try and help a listener.

So our latest rock doctors patient is Hannah. We've got her on the phone now.

Hello Hannah welcome to sound opinions.

Hi thank you. All right tell us your story. It's a really moving one.

Okay so I'm a grad student at the University of Florida,

and so up until March 2020, I was living in England,

in England, Florida, which is a pretty long drive from my hometown in northwest Ohio.

But when some of the COVID stuff started coming out, I got a call from home that my grandpa was in the hospital and was expected to be in the

hospital for a couple days.

And this is pretty problematic for my family because he was serving as the full-time caregiver for my

grandma who has Alzheimer's disease and the reason for that is because our

professional caregivers were asked to start social distancing after the pandemic broke out.

We were trying to take it on at our family but my parents both still worked full-time

and it was just it just wasn't going to work.

So the next day I drove home and I was still pretty new to the pandemic so I was pretty

scared of everything and only stopped twice on the 14 hour drive to get gas and I don't touch anything but I got home around 2 AM and my mom has been awake for like 36 hours with my grandma who's just really

agitated and she would go sleep for a few minutes and get up and ask where's my

husband and we have to explain to her that he wasn't coming back that night and she was just, you know, just over and over again, not really knowing what was happening.

And so, yeah, that was the beginning of my time as a caregiver and

I put about three months living with my grandparents and doing full-time caregiving.

Wow you know the ramifications of this disease, and it go on and on and on.

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