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Originally Posted by gblowfish
My mom worked at Trinity Lutheran Hospital, she was the nursing supervisor of the operating room.
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I was born in Trinity Lutheran. Was she there in 1967? I doubt if I came out in the OR, but still.
This is a photo of my Mom from a trip up to my aunt's farm in Maine in about 1979. It's artificially enlarged and out of focus and the color is dull and it's oddly cropped, but it's my favorite picture of her. That's a lobster in her hand, I think.
She's a career nurse here in Maryland, and has been for about 55 years now. Most of the time, she worked in the ICU with recovering heart attack patients and so on. Sometimes, however, one of us would go see her at work, and a gurney would go racing past, with some poor soul in horrific distress, while my tiny, kind-hearted mother, coated in blood, was kneeling on top of them, performing CPR as they whisked the patient into the OR. Now she's a nursing supervisor at the hospital near her home. She's saved more lives than I can count, and she's still going strong at 77. And she helps take care of her great-grandchildren. And in her spare time, she volunteers.
She's amazing. I think I'll call her in the morning.