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tyler the surfer ([personal profile] fossils) wrote in [personal profile] forevalone 2015-05-05 07:42 am (UTC)

FROM: rogers.steve@cdc.org

Most people here don't know this about me, but I considered small and unhealthy when I was a kid. Had asthma and a bunch of other medical problems growing up.

FROM: rogers.steve@cdc.org

My mother was the bravest person I knew. She was a nurse, working with tuberculosis patients. Back then we didn't completely understand how it was spread.

FROM: rogers.steve@cdc.org

You could be fine for years working there and then one day end up a patient. She worked at that ward, no complaints, taking care of people until she got too sick to anymore.

FROM: rogers.steve@cdc.org

Jobs were hard to find back then, but she still could've picked anywhere else to work.

FROM: rogers.steve@cdc.org

Once I must've asked her why she didn't. She just told me someone had to take care of those people. Was simple as that for her sometimes.


[ Not quite about himself, but it's even more rare for him to talk about her. This seemed to make sense. ]

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