Veronica and Roger.
Roger Lynn
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Roger Lynn
Veronica and Roger.
Roger Lynn
This story is a part of the My Unsung Hero sequence, from the Hidden Mind workforce. It options tales of individuals whose kindness left an enduring impression on another person.
In February 2010, Roger Lynn’s spouse Veronica was admitted to hospital. She had stage 4 breast most cancers, which had metastasized to her stomach and bones. The prognosis was grim and the environment within the hospital solely made issues tougher.
”Her room was on the far finish of the surgical flooring, and felt like a darkish and forgotten nook,” Lynn remembered.
At some point, as Lynn was sitting together with his spouse, a nurse named Jennifer got here in and shared some excellent news: A room with a window had opened up and she or he needed his spouse to have it.
”She led me down the corridor and into her room, which was full of gentle, and from the home windows there was a panoramic view of the Puget Sound, Whidbey Island and the Olympic Mountains serving as backdrop for the entire scene,” Lynn mentioned.
The brand new room remodeled their expertise of being within the hospital day after day.
”I keep in mind sitting there quietly within the night, with my lovely spouse sleeping on the opposite aspect of the room, as I watched the setting solar drop behind the mountains,” he recalled.
However per week later, Veronica took a flip for the more severe. She developed a blood clot, and handed away. The following day, Lynn took flowers to the nurses’ station as an expression of thanks for his or her help over the previous two weeks. When he arrived, Jennifer approached Lynn and took him by the hand.
Roger Lynn.
Roger Lynn
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”[She] led me to one of many nurse’s convention rooms, the place she proceeded to inform me what an honor and privilege it had been to look after Veronica and her household. She had been touched by the expertise and was really saddened by her dying,” Lynn mentioned.
”Jennifer did not have to search out me that day when the room with a view grew to become accessible. She did not have to tug me right into a quiet room to inform me that understanding my spouse had made a distinction in her life. However she did, and her kindness was a beacon of sunshine within the midst of a darkish and painful time.”
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