Music Therapy During a Global Pandemic...
This is my first post in over a year. I don't feel like I need to explain that TOO much...seeing as 2020 has proved to be a challenging year in many ways. I thought I would just share a few highlights from my professional world and how I have been navigating amidst a global pandemic. *cries* . . . . . In March when the pandemic began to hit the Midwest, the hospital and Kansas City completely shut down. People were being deemed "essential" and "non-essential." And frontline healthcare workers were both being called heroes...and also being laid off. It was confusing, stressful, and complete chaos. I know that myself and many of my colleagues and friends were worried about how Music Therapy would be categorized. I fell in a kind of in-between category here at Truman, deemed "essential" and not furloughed, but felt pretty "non-essential" in that I was not allowed to enter patient rooms and therefore could not perform my job. I was sent home
