A Tribute to Nurses

Julie Ballantyne Brown
4 min readFeb 3, 2022

Heroes in scrubs

Photo by Vladimir Fedotov on Unsplash

I’m posting this in honor of my Grandma Ruth, who crossed over twelve years ago today.

A little more than twenty-three years ago, a nurse named Vincent at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit made all the difference.

Our first baby, only three months old, had just had an insanely complicated surgery where his skull was cut into pieces and put back together. He was…

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Julie Ballantyne Brown

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