I spent the night at the hospital with Jamie on Wednesday to help her with anything she needed assistance with. Stuff like changing diapers (eww...horrible, horrible to have to change a little diaper...LOL), holding the baby (the worst thing I've done in a long time), spend hours talking (that's just not me), watching late night TV (I usually go to bed quite early...NOT.), etc. When her post partum nurse came in the room on Thursday morning, she looked very familiar to me. I looked down at her name tag; would you believe it was the nurse who was in the labor and delivery room with us when I had Adam in 1991?!?!!? Back then she worked at Allentown Hospital, now she is at St. Luke's. You may wonder how I remember that far back...I mean, geesh, that's over 17 years ago! Well, turns out, her last name is the same as ours! Better yet, her daughter's name is Michele!! So as soon as I said something to her, and explained who I was, she remembered me, as well!!
It's just such a small world...what were the chances that we'd both be cared for by the same nurse, years apart, at different hospitals?!!? We both ended up being employed by that 'big hospital' in Allentown through the big merger and it sounds like she left them, too, for many of the same reasons I did, and is much happier at St. Luke's. She says St. Luke's has more of that home town, personal feel to it, much like Allentown Hospital had many years ago.
2 comments:
that's amazing!
you should have made that last part a "not me monday" post!
i think it's really neat how things happen...thank you soooooooooooo much for staying with me!!! besides you seeing that nurse you knew, i just plain think it's amazing how i happened to need you on a weds night (since you don't work on thursday) and the bad weather/no power at your house made it really easy for you to stay with me!! =)
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