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Dear Peds Nurses,(And absurd assistant techs!)
I see you. I sit on this couch all day continued and I see you. You try so adamantine to be disregarded by me and my child. I see your face bead a little back she sees you and cries. You try so abounding means to affluence her fears and win her over. I see you alternate to stick her or cull bandaids off. You say, "No owies" and "I'm sorry" added times in one day than best bodies say "thank you."
I see all of those elastic bracelets on your accoutrements and captivated about your stethoscope, anniversary one for a adolescent that you've cared for and loved. I see you accustomed arm endless of anesthetic and food into one child's room, all while your buzz is campanology in your abridged from the allowance of another. I see you put on gloves and a affectation and try not to accomplish too abundant babble at night. I see you allocation bags of chaplet so you can accord them to your accommodating to add to their anytime growing anniversary necklace. I see you achievement her little baldheaded arch and constrict her covers about her tightly. I see you captivation the arrant mom that got bad news. I see you aggravating to blueprint on the computer while captivation the babyish whose mom can't or won't be at the hospital with her.
You put abreast what's accident in your activity for 12 hours beeline to affliction for actual ailing and sometimes dying children. You go into anniversary allowance with a smile no bulk what's accident in there. You see Sophie's name on the agenda and appear to analysis on us alike back she isn't your patient. You alarm the doctor, claret bank, and pharmacy as abounding times as all-important to get my adolescent what she needs in a appropriate manner. You analysis on me as generally as you analysis on her. You sit and accept to me constitutional for 10 account alike admitting your buzz is active and your agitation account is a mile long.
I see you application your buzz as a arrangement to acrylic the absolute animation appearance on the new kid's window. I see you auspicious so agilely for the kid demography laps about the nurses station. I see you with that Nerf gun, ambuscade from the kid about the corner. I see you authority tiny hands, change bedraggled sheets, construe medical allocution for parents, and clean your eyes advancing out of a decidedly adamantine room. I see you put on gloves, masks, and a clothes again abeyance afore you adhere an IV bag of adulteration chemo for my kid.
I see you. We all see you. No bulk of bite baskets or cards can absolutely accurate how accepted you are. You are Jesus to us every distinct day. Our accouchement wouldn't get what they charge after you. Moms like me wouldn't feel sane or heard after you. You save our babies and we couldn't do this after you.
Love,A mom that sees all you do and loves you dearly for it.
This adventure originally appeared on Shelby Skiles's Facebook folio committed to her daughter, Sophie. Two-year-old Sophie was diagnosed with T-cell lymphoma beforehand this year and is alive adamantine to bang cancer's butt. Skiles shares updates about Sophie's adventure on her Facebook folio blue-blooded Sophie the Brave.
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