Mimilanie Harris
June 2024
Mimilanie
Harris
,
RN
ACU
University Health Hospiital
San Antonio
,
TX
United States
Even when Mimi was not our nurse, she made a thousand percent effort to come to our room and ask if we needed anything.
My mother has end-stage liver disease, and now her kidneys are taking a massive hit due to the liver failure. She must take a lot of medicine to survive. Those medicines do not taste good, and even for me, it isn't enjoyable to see her take them multiple times a day. She has been in the hospital five times since November 2023. The San Antonio branch denied her for an evaluation for a liver transplant. Currently, we are waiting for confirmation from the Houston branch to see if they could evaluate her and give her a shot at life. My mother is extremely depressed because she will never see her grandkids or even see me graduate college. It also makes her very scared because she knows she will eventually not be able to remember who she is, where she is, and who her sons are. In other words, she will degrade into a significantly altered mental state. It makes it even harder for her when she is in the hospital, and the nurses and doctors ignore her, keep her in the dark, and are rude to her. We asked God for help, and He answered.
This past week, God sent us Mimi from 5 ACU. When we met her, she was cheerful, compassionate, energetic, understanding, humorous, and, most importantly, loving. This was truly a blessing because she treated my mother as if she were her mother. On one specific occasion, my mother was crying, and she came in and hugged her, and instantly, my mother felt a sense of happiness and hope. For the rest of the day, my mother was normal again. She felt completely safe and happy around Mimi. My mother even started to crack jokes again, which Mimi did not mind joking about either. It has been a long time since I’ve seen my mother joke like that. Another blessing is that Mimi came running into the room whenever my mother needed anything, and her service was immediate. This is very substantial because my mother felt she mattered and was cared for. Even when Mimi was not our nurse, she made a thousand percent effort to come to our room and ask if we needed anything.
I knew I needed Mimi as our nurse, so I asked the charge nurse if she could be our nurse. Mimi loves us and cares for us. She treated me like her son; she saw how much I cared for my mother and hugged me to reassure me that everything would be okay. May God bless her and her family for all she has done for us. I wish every nurse were like her, and I thank God for sending us an angel in human form to help my mother in her time of need.