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NICU nurse discovers new colleague was premature baby she cared for 28 Years ago

September 1, 2018 By Rana Waqar Leave a Comment

Vilma Wong, a nurse working in the neonatal intensive care unit at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, worked with a memorable baby 28 years ago.

NICU nurse discovers new colleague was premature baby she cared for 28 Years ago

The baby was a boy, born at just 29 weeks, and he needed to remain at the hospital for a month before his parents could bring him to his home to San Jose.

After nearly 30 years, Wong remembered the baby’s last name: Seminatore.

So when a young doctor named Brandon Seminatore began working at the same hospital, Wong investigated:

“I kept asking questions, like where he was from, and he told me he was from San Jose, and that as a matter of fact, he was a premature baby born at our hospital,” she recalled in the Stanford Children’s Health blog. “I then got very suspicious, because I remember being the primary nurse to a baby with the same last name. To confirm my suspicion, I asked him if his dad was a police officer. And there was a big silence. Then he asked me if I was Vilma. I said yes!”

NICU nurse discovers new colleague was premature baby she cared for 28 Years ago

Seminatore said the revelation was “surreal,” believing that Wong had since retired, but added, “I’ve come full-circle and I’m taking care of babies with the nurse that took care of me.”

Seminatore is working closely with Wong these days; he works as a child neurologist. As Wong said, “Now he’s a pediatric resident to the same population he was part of when he was born.”

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