Terry Morrow
September 2022
Terry
Morrow
,
MSN, RN
Medical Intensive Care Unit
Augusta University Medical Center
Augusta
,
GA
United States
Her mother was so appreciative of the amazing care not only her daughter received but also how everyone, especially Terry, had taken care of her.
Terry is a “temp” nurse in MICU. He recently took care of a 34-year-old female patient who was about an hour and a half away from home with her mom constantly at bedside. This female patient was in our unit for low sodium levels and seizures. Her outside hospital MRI read was possible brain death. Her electrolytes were all out of whack so Terry spent many days trying to correct electrolytes so neurology could do the brain death study. Well during those days of caring for the patient, he built an amazing rapport with this patient’s mother who never left her side. He learned their story and all the trials they have been through since the patient’s diagnosis of a glioblastoma. Her mother was so appreciative of the amazing care not only her daughter received but also how everyone, especially Terry, had taken care of her, even though she knew her daughter was going through lab draw after lab draw and scans and procedures to eventually rule her as brain dead and she wouldn’t be leaving to go home with her.
During the many stories, Terry learned of a lot of financial burdens the patient’s mother was going through including caring for the patient’s 2 sons and paying gas money to get back and forth the hour and a half to her home on occasion. He decided he would reach out to a select few staff who had taken care of this family and was able to gather some money to give her as a token of how her stories had blessed so many people's hearts in the unit in a short amount of time. Instead of giving the money himself and getting all the gratitude himself, he decided to give to the charge nurse that day (me) on his off day and wanted her to receive it as an anonymous blessing. This act of gratitude touched this lady in words that I cannot explain and only 2 short hours later I was the nurse that held her hand as her daughter was removed from the ventilator and took her last breath. I know that mother will never know how much Terry did for her inside and outside out of those hospital walls but she will always carry apart of him with her in heart. Terry went above and beyond to make the worst days of her life more enjoyable not only with the gracious financial blessing but also by just being an all around amazing nurse.
During the many stories, Terry learned of a lot of financial burdens the patient’s mother was going through including caring for the patient’s 2 sons and paying gas money to get back and forth the hour and a half to her home on occasion. He decided he would reach out to a select few staff who had taken care of this family and was able to gather some money to give her as a token of how her stories had blessed so many people's hearts in the unit in a short amount of time. Instead of giving the money himself and getting all the gratitude himself, he decided to give to the charge nurse that day (me) on his off day and wanted her to receive it as an anonymous blessing. This act of gratitude touched this lady in words that I cannot explain and only 2 short hours later I was the nurse that held her hand as her daughter was removed from the ventilator and took her last breath. I know that mother will never know how much Terry did for her inside and outside out of those hospital walls but she will always carry apart of him with her in heart. Terry went above and beyond to make the worst days of her life more enjoyable not only with the gracious financial blessing but also by just being an all around amazing nurse.