Sorrow and loss

Nurse Tina and Deb comfort each other as they learn of the loss of two beloved classmates. One, an older gentleman had been a joy to Tina especially, and the other, part of the 'A Team' as Deb called them {Andrew the patient and Andrew the caregiver}.

Deb had befriended them through many shared hours in 7C,the high risk chemo area. Andrew was young for a myeloma patient...probably in his late thirties. He had the most comprehensive understanding of the disease and the meds.

Deb was a certain comforter to Andrew as his own mother could not be here in his last days. She had shown him such love and acceptance.

We came home in somber tears only to meet a walking miracle. A young New York Couple was on the van and when he came here he was totally helpless and paralyzed. Now he is walking and self-sufficient. He does not have myeloma, but Dr. Barlogie worked with his medical team back home and did dual stem cell transplants which seem to have restored him.