Man makes painting for his Covid nurses

OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) — "I'd ne'er been this sick before, it was new, I was frightened and I kept reasoning I won't marque it," said creator Danny Reyes.

He recovered from COVID and instantly enactment his thoughts, feelings and emotions connected canvas.

"What means a batch to maine is my art. I americium truly passionate astir it, truthful I knew arsenic soon arsenic I got home, it would beryllium the precise archetypal happening I would enactment on, this acquisition for the radical who saved my life," helium said.

He wasn't afloat recovered erstwhile helium started moving connected the painting.

"I would get a small winded, truthful I would person to dilatory it down," Reyes said.

The nurses who helped him were his superheroes.

"They would travel successful with specified happiness and conscionable blessed to beryllium determination and truthful I started feeling that way," said Reyes.

His appreciation is 1 that does not spell unnoticed, and astatine times, is overmuch needed.

"Every time is simply a antithetic day. You tin person truly atrocious days, you tin person truly bully days but looking astatine that painting, connected the days you cognize it is going to beryllium tough, you look astatine that representation and you cognize we are making a quality successful someone's life," said Tiffany Whitney, caregiver supervisor with Nebraska Medicine successful Bellevue.

The coating captures thing that struck a chord with Reyes; the nurse's eyes and the kindness that stood out.

"I could admit them from their dependable and their eyes," said Reyes.

"That picture, if you person ever been successful a COVID unit, the lone happening you ever spot is our eyes. We person the mask, look shield and the gown, and to cognize that the 1 happening they spot is our eyes," said Whitney.

The coating is simply a reminder to the nurses of their strength.

"Every time is simply a combat for america to get radical location to their families," said Whitney.

The coating hangs successful the lobby astatine Nebraska Medicine successful Bellevue.

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