BEAVERCREEK — A middle school teacher’s mother was a COVID patient at Soin Medical Center and to say thank you for the level of care her mother received, she donated blankets made by her students to give to other patients.
Jennifer Ebersole, a middle school English teacher from Delaware County, made the donation of tie blankets to the to the Beavercreek hospital that treated her mother, Portia Hammond, on Tuesday.
In a letter thanking the staff, Ebersole wrote that her mother praised the way the staff treated her after several trips to Soin, that eventually led to her being diagnosed with cancer. Hammond refused to go to any other hospital when it came time for treatment.
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During her chemotherapy and radiation, Hammond was diagnosed with COVID-19. Ebersole wrote that her family was worried about the diagnosis, but her mother told them she was in good hands at Soin.
“She trusted the doctors and nurses at Soin to help her get healthy again,” Ebersole wrote. “The nurses who updated me were always honest and hopeful. I never felt rushed as they patiently answered my many, many questions.”
The blankets that accompanied the letter were made by eighth-grade students of the Committed Distance Learning group of Olentangy Local Schools’ “Blanket Club,.” The club created by Ebersole’s colleague, Amy Koons, as a way to help students relax.
Ebersole said that when the students found out her mother and step-father were battling COVID, they made the decision to donate their blankets to the patients at Soin.
“They made these blankets for others, people they will never meet. May it inspire others to do the same,” Ebersole wrote.
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