{"id":27753,"date":"2020-05-21T09:30:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T13:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/?page_id=27753"},"modified":"2020-05-21T09:30:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T13:30:45","slug":"chris-witkowski","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/values-culture\/covid-19-staff-stories\/chris-witkowski\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Witkowski"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"27753\" class=\"elementor elementor-27753\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-f682f86 elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"f682f86\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-wider\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3d2c767\" data-id=\"3d2c767\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0acdfa9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"0acdfa9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">COVID-19 Staff Stories<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c8f0097 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c8f0097\" 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https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Chris-Witkowski1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b49858a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b49858a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>I\u2019m out in Halifax for the last couple of weeks and hearing about the weather this morning almost made me miss Toronto.\u00a0 Almost.\u00a0 Weather has not been great out here, we\u2019re just outside of Halifax in Waverley.\u00a0 My wife and I just finished 2 weeks of isolation in our house so we finally get to go for walks, get groceries, visit her sister who lives in the house next door, and this is what greets us!<\/p><p>I want to thank Adam and the Executive team for doing an amazing job of keeping us going, keeping up our spirits and especially Adam sharing with us.\u00a0 I really enjoy Adam\u2019s emails and it\u2019s the first thing I look for in my Inbox in the morning.<\/p><p>I really appreciated the one on balance, and others where he commented on anxiety and stress.\u00a0\u00a0 I suffer from periodic episodes of severe anxiety about every 5 years (started when I was 40 after a reaction to getting my wisdom teeth pulled) and I\u2019m just about over my last one. However, with COVID-19 I was concerned about it sticking around longer than usual due to many factors \u2013 worrying about family, friends and work, etc.\u00a0 But Adam has done such a great job with Delvinia and managing this that it was never really a concern, and I want to thank him for that (so does my wife).<\/p><p>I am thankful for being brought into the Delvinia family.\u00a0 I always thought my previous place of employment was a great place to work, and it was because of the people.\u00a0 But I had been there for so long it\u2019s hard to picture anything else, or being anywhere else.\u00a0 Being here brought me a whole new perspective.\u00a0 The people here are great,\u00a0but it\u2019s also the atmosphere of going forward, getting better, doing more, and doing it together that really inspires me.\u00a0It\u2019s like night and day. In hindsight, getting laid off was one of the best things that happened to me, especially as it led me to a much better environment to work in and more great people to collaborate with.\u00a0Also, kudos to Frank as he has been great guy to talk to about my anxiety when it started in January.\u00a0<\/p><p>Adam\u2019s email about Zoom just touches on how much of a godsend this technology is.\u00a0 My step-daughter turned 28 yesterday,\u00a0but she is up in Yellowknife as a CBC reporter and all on her own, so her boyfriend in Toronto organized a virtual Nova Scotia kitchen party for 19 of us from across Canada last night \u00a0(if you look for Danielle d\u2019Entremont on CBC and you can see some of her pieces she did on the shooting in NS and its impact up north,\u00a0 as well as stories on COVID-19). Last week my wife was pretty down about the incident out here, so I set up a surprise Zoom call for all the kids who could make it (we have 7 together) which really cheered her up.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think there was anything else that would have done the trick.\u00a0 And I have even used it to talk to my therapist (I\u2019m trying CBT to see if that can help).\u00a0 Not the same as in person but it still helps.<\/p><p>My wife recently cut my hair using the scotch tape technique, and we made a video of it (this was a week before hair cutting was big in the news, so we should have posted it, I could have been a star!). We are thinking of doing one where we experiment on different ways to dye hair as my wife has a lot of grey coming in (I didn\u2019t tell you this) but she will use me as the guinea pig.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-90b2119 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"90b2119\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-ddb89c7\" data-id=\"ddb89c7\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ca4cf13 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"ca4cf13\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Share Chris' Story:<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-9d24f3a\" data-id=\"9d24f3a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0dbcaaf elementor-widget elementor-widget-share-buttons\" data-id=\"0dbcaaf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"share-buttons.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t \t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 Staff Stories Back to COVID-19 Staff Stories I\u2019m out in Halifax for the last couple of weeks and hearing about the weather this morning almost made me miss Toronto.&nbsp; Almost.&nbsp; Weather has not been great out here, we\u2019re just outside of Halifax in Waverley.&nbsp; My wife and I just finished 2 weeks of isolation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":27757,"parent":27338,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":[],"categories":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27753"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27758,"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27753\/revisions\/27758"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}