{"id":63982,"date":"2020-04-19T01:24:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T01:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=63982"},"modified":"2020-04-19T01:24:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T01:24:18","slug":"knicks-dancer-moves-msg-coronavirus-frontlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=63982","title":{"rendered":"Knicks dancer moves from MSG to coronavirus frontlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 6, Tara Rappleyea was on the floor of Madison Square Garden performing to Amy Winehouse\u2019s \u201cValerie\u201d with her fellow Knicks City Dancers as the team took on the Oklahoma City Thunder. Less than a week later, her dancing gig was on ice when the NBA postponed the season due to the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>But the 27-year-old has hardly been idle. Her day job is working as an ICU nurse at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset in Somerville, New Jersey \u2014 and she\u2019s been right on the front lines of the pandemic battle.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post2\"><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Adv<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bagfactory.com.hk\/216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Sun Winning Ind Co<\/strong><\/span><\/a>: Manufacture of Canvas Bag, Recycle Bad in China<\/li>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theunitravel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheUniTravel.com<\/a><\/strong><\/span> : Find the latest\u00a0<em>travel<\/em>\u00a0and tourism\u00a0<em>news<\/em>\u00a0from around the world. Stay informed with\u00a0<em>travel news<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>updates<\/em><\/li>\r\n \t\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt seemed like it happened overnight. Our unit went from regular patients to COVID,\u201d said Rappleyea, who lives in South Amboy and became a registered nurse almost two years ago. Before all this, she logged three 12-hour overnight shifts per week; now, she is working around 60 hours a week.<\/p>\n<p>Since the hospital has a no-visitors policy, she is not only caring for patients but also managing communication between them and their loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI realize now more than ever how important it is for me to take a moment to be present and sit with my patients \u2014 especially because they can only see my eyes [because of protective gear worn by the staff] \u2014 and hold their hand and talk to them to give them a sense of comfort, safety and connection,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63983\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/15.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/15-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/15-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63984\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/16.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/16-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/16-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63985\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/13.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/13-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/13-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63986\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/14.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/14-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/14-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are moments of hope. Whenever a COVID-19 patient is discharged, The Beatles\u2019 \u201cHere Comes the Sun\u201d plays throughout the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou just get the chills,\u201d Rapelyea said. \u201cIt reminds you why you are there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Jersey native, who graduated from Rutgers, joined the Knicks City Dancers in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of people said that wasn\u2019t going to be possible to do both, but I rely on good time management and being focused on the task at hand,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, the task is momentous.<\/p>\n<p>But the other day, Rapelyea returned home from a shift, looked at her phone and saw a text from her fellow Knicks City Dancers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a 17-minute video of the girls telling me how much they appreciate me. Immediately, a wave of emotion came over me,\u201d the nurse said. \u201cIt was one of the nicest things anyone has ever done. And it came at a moment when I really needed it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 6, Tara Rappleyea was on the floor of Madison Square Garden performing to Amy Winehouse\u2019s \u201cValerie\u201d with her fellow Knicks City Dancers as the team took on the Oklahoma City Thunder. Less than a week later, her dancing gig was on ice when the NBA postponed the season due to the coronavirus. 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