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A Human and International Connection S a c r e d S t o r i e s This sacred story is about a non-patient who came to Flaget Memorial Hospital in the worst hour of her life. On a cold March evening, just as the evening shift arrived in the Emergency Department, a distraught young woman appeared. She had been told to come to the hospital to identify the body of her husband, who had just died in a motorcycle accident. But, there was no body, and no one in the hospital knew of an accident. The staff made some phone calls and it found that the young husband had, in fact, been killed in an accident and taken directly to the coroner’s office in Louisville, 45 minutes away. To make matters worse, the husband was originally from Turkey, where his family lived. The woman tried to call her Turkish relatives, but she knew almost none of their language and they did not know English. The staff rallied around the grieving woman. The chaplain and the nursing staff helped her connect with the AT&T Language Line. A sympathetic Turkish-speaking operator stayed on the phone for 45 minutes while connections were made. As the relatives were notified, the chaplain knelt on the floor next to the woman and prayed. It took several hours to connect with everyone and make arrangements for the wife to accompany her husband’s body to Turkey. Finally, the calls were completed and the woman was ready to go to Louisville. As she left, she knew that she had been surrounded by the love and prayers of people who truly cared and felt deeply for the tragedy of a stranger. How thankful I am to work in a Catholic hospital with people who care so much, who know the power of prayer, and who live out our core values every day and every shift, no matter who comes through the door. Deborah Cowles Flaget Memorial Hospital Bardstown, Kentucky 14
“She knew that she had been surrounded by the love and prayers of people who truly cared and felt deeply for the tragedy of a stranger.” Question for Reflection How has God been present in the unexpected within your work? 15
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