That’s some memory.
A California nurse and a young doctor at the same hospital recently discovered that they had a decades-old connection to one another – she had cared for him as a premature newborn.
Brandon Seminatore, now 28, was born at just 29 weeks and weighing two pounds at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in the city of Palo Alto.
He spent 40 days in the hospital’s neonatal unit following his birth, where he was cared for by a young nurse by the name of Wilma Wong.
Almost thirty years later, the memory of the little boy stayed with her.
She approached a man she didn’t recognise who was on rounds in the hospital one day in August and asked who he was.
The new paediatric resident introduced himself as Brandon Seminatore. Vilma said the name sounded familiar and he told her that he’d been born in the same hospital.
She then asked if hi father was a police officer.
“There was a big silence,’’ Vilma told Mercury News. “Then he asked if I was Vilma.”
The pair were reunited and the hospital celebrated by sharing photos of them together both when Brandon was first born and now on Facebook.
The post has gone viral, having been liked over 34,000 times.
Brandon admitted that he was shocked to run into Vilma as an adult.
“Meeting Vilma was a surreal experience,’’ he said.
“She cares deeply for her patients, to the point that she was able to remember a patient’s name almost three decades later.”
