A woman whose Facebook search for a nurse who cared for her almost 40 years ago went viral this week has found the mystery woman — in only 24 hours.
Amanda Scarpinati has wondered all her life about a nurse who helped her in the Albany Medical Center in 1977. At 3 months old, Scarpinati caught a cold, so her parents put her on a couch near a hot-steam humidifier. She was in the living room by herself and rolled off the couch and landed right on the humidifier. She remained there for a full minute, suffering third-degree burns on her face and hands.
Scarpinati spent seven weeks in the hospital and went through many surgeries during her youth as a result. All through elementary school, she was picked on and laughed at because of it. But one person Scarpinati knows treated her with only loving care? A nurse at the burn unit, whose photo Scarpinati had seen for years. “There are a picture of us together in an annual report for Albany Med from that year. I don’t know how our family got hold of it, but I’ve always had the report and I would stare at the pictures and wonder who she was, ever since I was kid. But I’ve never had a name to go with the face,” Scarpinati says.
Scarpinati says she tried to locate the nurse 20 years ago, but with no luck. “I went to Albany Med and they did some research but weren’t really able to find anything,” she says. “I just wanted to thank her.”
Nurses’ work is important to Scarpinati, whose mother is also a nurse. “What they do is truly amazing. A lot of time it’s not the doctors who have the bedside manner, it’s the nurses that comfort you. I remember as a kid having one surgery and my mother couldn’t be there but a nurse was.” Scarpinati said.
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