Molly is an extraordinary nurse! My sister texted me last week, asking me to come to the hospital, as her husband was taken to SHMC by ambulance. He was recovering from radiation therapy and continued to have a urinary catheter, which, as many in the health care field know, is a risk for infection.

He had chills, a fever, and felt very unwell. I am so very proud of the work everyone contributed to making the sepsis protocol routine. Molly and the physician on staff blasted through the protocol, discovering a lactate of 9! Other labs signified that this was an emergency situation. Eventually, my brother-in-law had fluids flowing along with a norepinephrine drip, O2, and the crash cart outside the door.

Molly was in the room along with a student nurse. She was managing all the variabilities that came with septic shock. She was in "total control" of evaluating signs and symptoms while adjusting care as appropriate at all times and educating her co-worker. I was so impressed with Molly’s mastery of the emergent situation. Things were very scary when my brother-in-law’s BP was extremely low, and his O2 saturations were in the high 70's/low 80's. His legs were mottled, his creatinine was high, his fever was high, and his breathing was labored.

I thought he would die. It looked really bad. But slowly, improvements came. I have no doubt that Molly's intricate nursing management of the sepsis protocol for this loved man was the difference in the end. Today, my brother-in-law is recovering with no dialysis, no heart failure, no anything else. We are blessed. Molly, thank you for helping him survive so he can continue to love his two grandsons, two daughters, two sons-in-law, and most importantly, his wife.