In healthy times, our police, firefighters, paramedics, EMTs, licensed healthcare workers, and corrections/probations officers assume risks to protect our San Diego community in ways that often go unrecognized. With the pandemic, and by the very nature of their work, these s/heroes have faced increased risks of coronavirus exposure and infection and dangerous emotionally volatile situations.
The stories of healthcare workers who slept in their garages or in their backyards to keep their families safe from infection, or who developed sores or bruises on their faces from long hours of wearing PPE, are particularly poignant to me because they make me think of my grandfather, who was a cardiologist. He raised me as his own and was always a superhero to me. Over the past year and a half, I’ve pictured him battling the virus and working long hours to save lives because I know he would have been right there doing just that if he were here today. I see a little bit of him — and that superhero I looked up to — in every healthcare worker who made those sacrifices this year.
We at the San Diego County Bar Association are proud to be able to give back to our first responder heroes through our annual Wills for Heroes program. But we cannot do it without YOU.
If you are licensed and in good standing in California, a member of the SDCBA, and have estate planning experience, we hope you will join us in donating time to meet with our local heroes for 30-60 minute blocks to help them prepare their wills, durable power of attorney, or advanced health care directive.
You can register here.
Yours,
Renée N.G. Stackhouse
2021 SDCBA President
Reading now: Alpha by David Phillips
Listening to: Eine kleine Nachtmusik by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
What are you reading or listening to? Tag us #sdlaw #sdcba