Collected Item: “Hilma Rodriguez Oral History, 2022/01/08”
Title
Interview with Hilma Rodriguez
Who conducted the interview? List all names, separated by comma.
Kit Heintzman
Who was interviewed? List all names, separated by commas.
Hilma Rodriguez
Email Address(es) for all interviewers. Separated by comma.
kheintzman@gmail.com
Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your oral history. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?
#baby, #birthday, #bordercrossing, #Canada, #childcare, #children, #Delta, #dental, #dentist, #family, #grandmother, #healthcareworker, #Hispanic, #hope, #hospital, #hugging, #hygiene, #Florida, #masks, #mother, #partnership, #pediatrics, #PPE, #pregnancy, #pregnant, #sacrifice, #selfcare, #toddler, #travel, #vaccination, #vaccine
What is the format of your recording?
Video
In what ZIP code is the primary residence of the interviewee? (enter 5-digit ZIP code; for example, 00544 or 94305)? In what city/town/village does the interviewee live? In what country does the interviewee live? All comma-separated.
Florida
What is the gender of the interviewee? Be sure to allow interviewees to self-identify their gender in the pre-interview or interview. *Do not assign a gender identity to interviewees.*
she/her
What is the age of the interviewee?
25 to 34
How does the interviewee describe their race or ethnicity? Be sure to allow interviewees to self-identify their race/ethnicity in the pre-interview or interview. *Do not assign a racial or ethnic identity to interviewees.*
Hispanic
Describe the oral history.
Self-description: “I work as a healthcare [inaudible: "worker"], I’m a pediatric dentist. I’m coming from that perspective. I’m coming in from the perspective of a mother. And also as somebody who needed healthcare during the pandemic.”
Some of the things we discussed included:
The particular dangers of dental work during the pandemic, working at different hospitals and clinics
No access to PPE in the beginning and reusing masks
Being pregnant at the beginning of the pandemic, losing that pregnancy, and getting pregnant again and carrying to term
Fear of COVID infections in hospitals; having to go to doctors’ appointments alone
Giving birth at the peak of the Delta variant in Florida; giving birth while masked
The impact of the emergency order mandate on work, loss of income, and choosing to go back to work
Having a toddler at home, child care
Mother visiting from Canada to help with childcare, border crossing
Getting vaccinated while pregnant; having family members who are not vaccinated
Toddler’s fear of contact with other people; toddler having one friend
Risk assessment
Pandemic hygiene after returning from work in medical setting: coming in the back door, straight to the shower, thorough scrubbing
Touching, hugging, and kissing in Hispanic culture
How tending to young children and working during the pandemic limited connection to the rest of the world
Receiving support from family and other healthcare practitioners
The personal sacrifices of healthcare workers
Patient entitlement around access to routine care during a pandemic
The physical sensations of wearing PPE for 10 hours straight while pregnant/breastfeeding
Nothing feeling super safe anymore
Human resilience
Cultural references: FaceTime
See also
https://acpediatricdentistry.com/doctor/dr-hilma-rodriguez/
https://sw-ke.facebook.com/ACPediatricDentistry/videos/meet-dr-hilma-rodriguez/205769804076807/
Some of the things we discussed included:
The particular dangers of dental work during the pandemic, working at different hospitals and clinics
No access to PPE in the beginning and reusing masks
Being pregnant at the beginning of the pandemic, losing that pregnancy, and getting pregnant again and carrying to term
Fear of COVID infections in hospitals; having to go to doctors’ appointments alone
Giving birth at the peak of the Delta variant in Florida; giving birth while masked
The impact of the emergency order mandate on work, loss of income, and choosing to go back to work
Having a toddler at home, child care
Mother visiting from Canada to help with childcare, border crossing
Getting vaccinated while pregnant; having family members who are not vaccinated
Toddler’s fear of contact with other people; toddler having one friend
Risk assessment
Pandemic hygiene after returning from work in medical setting: coming in the back door, straight to the shower, thorough scrubbing
Touching, hugging, and kissing in Hispanic culture
How tending to young children and working during the pandemic limited connection to the rest of the world
Receiving support from family and other healthcare practitioners
The personal sacrifices of healthcare workers
Patient entitlement around access to routine care during a pandemic
The physical sensations of wearing PPE for 10 hours straight while pregnant/breastfeeding
Nothing feeling super safe anymore
Human resilience
Cultural references: FaceTime
See also
https://acpediatricdentistry.com/doctor/dr-hilma-rodriguez/
https://sw-ke.facebook.com/ACPediatricDentistry/videos/meet-dr-hilma-rodriguez/205769804076807/
On what date did you record this oral history?
2022-01-08T13:14