Nurse 'Lights Up Every Hospital Room': Chicago Heroes

CHICAGO — Fred Rogers told a story on his children's show Mr. Roger's Neighborhood about being scared as a child when he saw something upsetting on the news. "My mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping,'" he told his audience. Though we're now living through an unprecedented health crisis, at Patch, we want to help you look for the helpers in your own community, so we've launched an initiative to recognize these everyday heroes.

This submission comes from Mary Kay Duggan, who nominated her sister, Nancy Nunez, a registered nurse.

"My sister has accepted an offer to assist her fellow nurses in a Brooklyn NY hospital," Duggan wrote. "She has selflessly taken on this position, while leaving her family and putting her own health at risk, in a hospital with high concentrations of COVID-19."

"She is a firecracker, born on the 3rd of July," Duggan said of her sister. "She lights up every hospital room she enters."

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