We’ve told you about some incredible nurses before, like this nurse who was caught singing a comforting song to patients in hospice, or this nurse who knit tiny superhero costumes for preemie babies. But Pennsylvania nurse Tricia Seaman went above and beyond, becoming family for a dying patient and her son.
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When Nurse Seaman was assigned a patient named Tricia Somers, she thought their meeting would be just another day on the job. She never guessed they would end up sharing a lot more than just their first names. Tricia was dying. She had been diagnosed with terminal cancer, and she openly shared her anxieties and life story with Nurse Seaman. The two became fast friends.
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Over the course of Tricia’s 10-day stay in the hospital, the women became more and more close. Tricia– a single mother– opened up to the Nurse about her son, an 8-year-old boy named Wesley, and her fear of leaving him behind, all alone.
Finally, on her last day under Seaman’s care, Tricia asked her a jaw-dropping question: “Will you and your husband raise my child?”
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The selfless woman then invited Tricia and her son, Wesley, to her home to see how Wesley would interact with her four children. The children got along so well that Nurse Seaman knew she couldn’t deny Tricia’s request.
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In fact, Nurse Seaman didn’t just agree to become Wesley’s second mother after Tricia died, Nurse Seaman wanted to give Tricia the best final days that she could. So she invited Tricia and Wesley to live in her home until Tricia passed away. Tricia called those final months “the best 5 months of her life.”
“Trish taught me that family is often more than blood relatives,” said Nurse Seaman after Tricia passed. Family is “those whom you are divinely aligned to meet.”
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