Maozinha do Amor
Little Hands of Love
I was doomscrolling again the other day and I ran across a post with a photograph from a Brazilian hospital during COVID-19 that I can’t stop thinking about. It shows a patient’s hand clasped between two water-filled surgical gloves, the latex fingers interlaced with human ones. The nurses called it “maozinha do amor” or little hands of love. When families couldn’t visit and touch was forbidden, these nurses filled disposable gloves with warm water and placed them on both sides of isolated patients’ hands.
