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Nurses and doctors are posting photos of their faces bruised by masks. A boy stepped in to help.
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Nurses and doctors are posting photos of their faces bruised by masks. A boy stepped in to help.
Quinn Callander with the ear guards he made on his 3-D printer from his home in British Columbia (Heather Roney)
By Cathy Free
April 16, 2020 at 3:24 p.m. EDT
For weeks, photos have been circulating online of the many weary doctors and nurses with marks and bruises on their faces from wearing tight-fitting medical masks while helping covid-19 patients.
Quinn Callander, a seventh-grader from Canada, saw the photos, and then he saw a plea from Canadian hospitals to create ear guards — devices that help relieve some of the pressure felt by health-care workers on their ears and faces.
Quinn, 13, found a design on the Internet and thought he would crank out a few dozen on the 3-D printer he received for his birthday last year, and that would be that.
But then on April 3, his mother, Heather Roney, posted a couple of photos of her son and his ear guard project on her Facebook page. Soon, requests came flying in.
Roney, who lives in Maple Ridge, B.C., was suddenly inundated with people who wanted to order the free protectors or make them on their own for medical workers in their communities. Her post was shared more than 462,000 times.
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“I posted about it on my Facebook page for my relatives, thinking he’d be lucky to raise $1,000, and he ended up going viral and raising $61,487,” she said. “Quinn’s our only child, but he always keeps us on our toes. He’s always been a hands-on kid.”
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His father, Freddie Callander, 48, attributes that to “the fact that as a family we feel it’s our duty to help people.”
During a telephone interview, Quinn’s mother asked him: “What do you tell people when they say you’re too young to make a difference?”
“Watch me,” said Quinn.
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Nurses and doctors are posting photos of their faces bruised by masks. A boy stepped in to help.
Quinn Callander with the ear guards he made on his 3-D printer from his home in British Columbia (Heather Roney)
By Cathy Free
April 16, 2020 at 3:24 p.m. EDT
For weeks, photos have been circulating online of the many weary doctors and nurses with marks and bruises on their faces from wearing tight-fitting medical masks while helping covid-19 patients.
Quinn Callander, a seventh-grader from Canada, saw the photos, and then he saw a plea from Canadian hospitals to create ear guards — devices that help relieve some of the pressure felt by health-care workers on their ears and faces.
Quinn, 13, found a design on the Internet and thought he would crank out a few dozen on the 3-D printer he received for his birthday last year, and that would be that.
But then on April 3, his mother, Heather Roney, posted a couple of photos of her son and his ear guard project on her Facebook page. Soon, requests came flying in.
Roney, who lives in Maple Ridge, B.C., was suddenly inundated with people who wanted to order the free protectors or make them on their own for medical workers in their communities. Her post was shared more than 462,000 times.
{snip}
“I posted about it on my Facebook page for my relatives, thinking he’d be lucky to raise $1,000, and he ended up going viral and raising $61,487,” she said. “Quinn’s our only child, but he always keeps us on our toes. He’s always been a hands-on kid.”
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His father, Freddie Callander, 48, attributes that to “the fact that as a family we feel it’s our duty to help people.”
During a telephone interview, Quinn’s mother asked him: “What do you tell people when they say you’re too young to make a difference?”
“Watch me,” said Quinn.
{snip}
Have a story for Inspired Life? Here’s how to submit.
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