Students flocked to patients' bedsides for observations with this newfound invention. She soon began visiting her sick neighbors bringing food and aide to their bedsides. They are traditionally put by children's bedsides on All Saints' Day. During the AIDS crisis, she was often at the bedsides of the dying. Their genius was to play them songs at their bedsides using a portable record player. I vividly remember going to the bedsides, the horrible circumstances.