Masks donated to Bellingham hospital mean more than protecting staff from coronavirus

Christy Austin says when her mother, Ervena Yu, gets an idea in her head, “she won’t stop — she’ll work on it day and night until she’s done.”

In this case, it was probably a good thing for her mother — almost cathartic.

How else could she possibly put aside the grief of losing her husband of more than 64 years, Dr. Ming Ho Yu?