The emotional teenager comes in a surprising hospital nurses with a shoebox
Jeannie Joseph is a neo-native nurse who has worked for more than 20 years. She had his fair part of the remarkable delivery stories to fill your ears. 14
Jeannie Joseph is a neo-native nurse who has worked for more than 20 years. She had his fair part of the remarkable delivery stories to fill your ears. It's been 14 years ago, she played a major role in a story that has become huge. It all started with a shoebox.
Jeannie works at the Swedish American Hospital of Rockford, Illinois, April 24, 2004. The emergency department called it from the special care hall. When she came, she saw a teenager filled with tears, holding a shoebox. Jeannie was in total shock when she looked inside the box.
Kept in a shoebox
There was a baby of 3 pounds in the shoe box. The baby was wrapped in a flat towel and a doll. Adolescence stood when the hospital staff took the baby in isolation. After three hours, they managed to stabilize the baby. Jeannie noticed that the boy was in tears throughout the period, there were enough curious about approaching it for the answers.
A teenage dad
The boy told him he and the mother of the age 15, wanted to give the baby. Jeannie accepted his request but informed him that after that, it would end his rights as a parent, so she would no longer have the power to update it about the baby. She gave him two parental bracelets and the time to think.
CONFORT WORDS
The couple came to see their baby at the hospital. Cherish Coates, the mother, was clearly saddened to keep her head. Jeannie gave a hand and told him, "You know you saved his life, did not you? I do not want you to catch your head. You gave him the best chance you could. An immediately formed link between the two.
Listen to me
Cherish confided to Jeannie, who gave him a shoulder to cry. Because his parents wanted to join the college, she admitted to having kept her pregnancy a secret. His own mother had given birth to the age of 15 and cherished was raised by his grandparents, that she did not want to drop. She told Jeannie the horrible way she gave birth to her child.
Frightened teens
Cherish managed to hide his belly of growth at school until his cramps started to occur. She would treat with her work pains blocking her room after school. She convened her boyfriend as soon as she brought the child. The boy climbed a ladder to reach his room. After feeling helpless and frightened, he came and brought the baby to the hospital leaving an explanation before leaving.
A love letter
Teen parents threw the baby into a shoe box with a Winnie-the-pooh doll. Then they added a touching note that said, "We love you, we are just not able to raise you. We want its name to be Allen Corey and we hope to see you again. God will look at you on you. "The grandpa teenager walked to eight miles to the hospital with the baby in the box.
A premature baby
The baby was suffering from hypothermia after being born 6 weeks before the due date of Cherish. The baby has been severely dehydrated and doctors have tried to treat his scissor wounds they used at home to cut his cord. It was a miracle to see him breathe because most premature babies can not do it. "There was someone looking to him," said the doctor who had treated him. But cherish found it impossible to give him.
Soften his doubt
Jeannie wanted Cherish to be aware of all the possibilities, including open adoption. She also wanted to inform her family. Cherish remembers: "She did not talk to me as if I were just a stupid teenager. She told me as if I were a person. "Finally, the girl has decided to tell her to her mother who expected to understand how she had lived the same thing with cherished.
The warm acceptance of the family
Cherish runs her mother at the incubator and she was surprised. Cherish remained speechless while waiting for Jeannie to Vienna to the rescue. His mother surprised her when she said she wanted to hold the newborn. A few hours later, his grandmother arrived at the hospital. After feeling the crushing meaning of support and love, she decided to keep it.
Say goodbye
The baby, now named Allen, left the hospital after 4 weeks. Jeannie has cherished to promise a school finish. His grandparents have happily offered to heal the baby while Cherish had his class hours. But cherish inscribed in an alternative school with daycare. She explained that "I did not want to place this burden for them." Cherish and Jeannie lost contact up to 12 years.
To grow
Cherish sent a message on Facebook to Jeannie in 2016. She is 29 years old and live in Glendale, Arizona. She now has three children, including Allen, who was currently 5'3 years old and playing football, running and is also part of the cadets of the Naval Academy. Life has been superficial not only to cherish.
Nurse
After the high school, Cherish went to Rock Valley College to obtain an assistant certification from the nurse. For 7 years, she worked in a hospital of Illinois and Arizona. After postulating at the law school, she is now a clerk in law until graduated. She wanted to be a lawyer on mental health and it was Jeannie who made her realize this dream of her.
Unbreakable obligation
On the subject of Jeannie, Cherish said: "I just wanted to let him know how much of an impression she did. We will always be connected because we share this unique story." They have frequent contacts on the media. but not in person. One thing Jeannie Admétra is that she recognized the impact of her empathy would have cherished, even though her other colleagues would have done the same thing.
She felt humiliated
Jeannie said that about herself: "It makes me just think:" Wow, all the interactions you have with someone is so important. "To be able to be in this position where I am part of someone's story of their life - it's so honor." Jeannie continues to work at the Swedish American hospital and is extremely proud of his participation in saving Allen's life.
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