My Newborn Has Dermatitus

comes to work. Dressed in white. Calla at the elbows.

smiles to patients. She knows them all.

Cecilio : a child had a leg amputated. Colostomy. Light

: 80 years of caring. Appendicitis. Álvaro

: Your best mate corridors. Probe cleaning the perineal area. Roman

: Ovo-Lacto Vegetarian, Christian beliefs, and Boy Scout leader. Kidney stone. Carmen

: Alzheimer and afraid, very afraid. Amputation in the foot (because of poor diabetes).

...

...

Yesterday he came home crying.

Pilar had died. Talkative woman, cheerful, neat. Ernie was complicated groin. Retained fluids. Large leg ulcers. It was very fast, just five days.

Today was not a good day.

When he entered the room 729, Lucy was not in the window. Grandmother grateful and smiling. When operated on for appendicitis, the wound became infected, and their weak defenses led to a bacterial infection. He endured almost a month.

But the worst was not that.

She had spent hours with Lucia. She made the bed. Had washed. Had helped her up. He had calmed down. He had taken the temperature and stress. I had injections. Had cured the points of the Ernie. He had been there when he was about to go into cardiac arrest. Had controlled his oxygen ...

and had not even shed a tear.

That scared her.

What would morning?

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