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SALUTE TO NURSES
THE NORTH PLATTE TELEGRAPH
SUNDAY, MAY 9, 2021
Daughter gives vaccine to oncology nurse mom By HEIDI STEVENS Chicago Tribune As soon as the million Americans. “At the beginning I was keeping a log,
“We’re just so excit- ed to have a vaccine,” Murphy said. “I was like, ‘As many hands as they need. Let’s get this in people’s arms.’” Griesmaier signed up to receive her first dose of the vaccine at 9 a.m. on Dec. 18. Murphy signed up to work one of Northwestern’s vac- cine tables all day on Dec. 18. Griesmaier is Murphy’s mom. The two have leaned on each other and drawn strength from each oth- er and shared tears and the occasional lunch (when there’s time) and rides to work (masked, with the car windows down) as the novel coronavirus crashed through our lives, in- fecting more than 32
‘How many patient ex- posures do you think you had today?’” Griesmaier said. “And then I was checking it against the statistics on TV. I mean, it was nuts. I was really so worried about how things were going for her.” Griesmaier was in awe, she said, of her daughter’s calm, and her lightning-fast mastery of COVID-19 protocols and person- al protective equipment needs and severe respi- ratory illnesses. “I’ve been a nurse for a very long time,” Griesmaier said. (Forty years, to be exact.) “I just kept thinking,
COVID-19 vaccine be- came available to her department, Lynn Griesmaier, nurse co- ordinator for breast medical oncolo- gy at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, jumped at the opportunity. “I took the first avail- able spot,” Griesmaier said. “I said, ‘I’ll go anywhere, at any time.’” As soon as ad- ministering the nurse Lizzy Murphy, education coordina- tor at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, jumped at the opportu- nity. COVID-19 vaccine became an option,
Youngrae Kim / Chicago Tribune Registered nurse Lizzy Murphy, left, gives the second dose of COVID-19 vaccine to her mother, Lynn Griesmaier, who is also a nurse, at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
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