{"id":864,"date":"2020-04-01T18:54:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T18:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/?p=864"},"modified":"2020-04-09T17:17:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T17:17:39","slug":"helping-hands-sewing-face-masks-with-my-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/2020\/04\/01\/helping-hands-sewing-face-masks-with-my-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping Hands: Sewing Face Masks With My Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Written By:<\/strong> Becky Ceraul, Assistant Dean for Communications and Marketing<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i><b>Editor&#8217;s Note:\u00a0<\/b>This post is the first in a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/tag\/helping-hands\/\"><strong>Helping Hands<\/strong><\/a> stories authored by School of Pharmacy faculty, staff, students, trainees, and alumni who stepped up to assist their family and friends, colleagues, and communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">My 13-year-old daughter, Maddie, and I decided last week to make face masks for health care workers after hearing about\u00a0the\u00a0School of Nursing\u2019s campaign to provide masks to\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.umms.org\/ummc\/coronavirus\/how-you-can-help\/masks\"><strong>University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC)<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Maddie has a sewing machine and some skill. I have no sewing skills, but knew this was a much needed distraction for both of us and a way we can help while stuck at home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We downloaded a pattern, gathered supplies, found a tutorial on YouTube, dusted off her sewing machine, and got started. It took many arguments and do-overs and much longer than it should to make\u00a0the\u00a0first one (like several hours) and many FaceTime calls with my mother. She is a master seamstress and is making masks for health care workers in West Virginia where she lives. On day two, we were able to complete about 10 masks before running out of supplies. We plan to give\u00a0them to two health care workers we know \u2013 one who works in an urgent care center and\u00a0the\u00a0other who works in\u00a0the\u00a0emergency room at UMMC \u2013 for\u00a0their personal use and\/or to share with\u00a0their colleagues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We plan to hunt down more supplies and to keep sewing!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School of Pharmacy&#8217;s assistant dean for communications and marketing shares story about making face masks with her daughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,7],"tags":[313,311,312],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baltimore","category-community","tag-becky-ceraul","tag-helping-hands","tag-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}