Posted on 10/07/2016 6:25:59 PM PDT by AC Beach Patrol
After his 34-year-old wife suffered a devastating asthma attack and later died, the Boston writer Peter DeMarco wrote the following letter to the intensive care unit staff of CHA Cambridge Hospital who cared for her and helped him cope.
As I begin to tell my friends and family about the seven days you treated my wife, Laura Levis, in what turned out to be the last days of her young life, they stop me at about the 15th name that I recall. The list includes the doctors, nurses, respiratory specialists, social workers, even cleaning staff members who cared for her.
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A friend of mine was involved in her care at the hospital....a good, strong women & excellent nurse.
MsBo after twenty years in medical profession got her RN license.
During her 4 plus years she had her hands on training at a hospice. And has seen this. As she’s been a part of human life ending as the author described. Lots of sad nights during that 6months of training.
Doctors, nurses and medical professions have a vocation from God and it is always humbling to see them work with a smile.
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