YOUR MAMA!!!

[gblowfish]

Originally Posted by Mosbonian

George...I don't have a picture of my Mom and she passed away in 2008.

My Mom was a responder to the Hyatt Skywalk collapse.....she held the hands of many who were gravely injured and at times I believe that was a contributor to her mental state for many years after. One of her good friends was killed there....

We may have had many rough moments while she was struggling emotionally, but she was MY Mom....she passed away from the combined effects of many strokes, diabetes and dementia and it was tough to see her slowly slide away.

RIP Mom....

My mom worked at Trinity Lutheran Hospital, she was the nursing supervisor of the operating room. She got called in when the Hiatt collapse happened, and we didn't see her for two days. The hospital was at 31st and Main, about a half mile from the Hiatt. They got a lot of the first ambulances there. She seldom talks about it, it was a horrendous 48 hours.

[Aries Walker]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

My mom worked at Trinity Lutheran Hospital, she was the nursing supervisor of the operating room.

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.

[Prison Bitch]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

My mom worked at Trinity Lutheran Hospital, she was the nursing .

So did mine. My stepmom that is. When I was a child, there was a shooting outside the hospital. My stepmom jumped on me and my brother and covered us. I was probably 7. I'll never forget it. She put her future stepsons ahead of herself. She's a glorious woman.