'You're not alone,' S.C. nurses encourage others coping with pandemic-related anxiety to ask for help

Throughout the pandemic nurses have been called our ‘healthcare heroes,’ but, like many others, the emotional toll for them has been steep. “It was always that fear that will I get it, and that is not a good feeling,” Dr. Kim Gilmore, a roughly 35-year nurse, said. “You try not to think about it because you’re doing a job and you’re being compassionate and trying to help others, but it does cross your mind all the time.”