“I barely slept last night. The babies woke up twice, and I was afraid I’d oversleep,” Lydia said.
“How are they doing?”
She pulled out her phone and showed me a photo. Three tiny faces stared back from the screen.
“They’re growing fast,” she said. “And they eat like tiny dinosaurs!”
I laughed.
She grew quiet for a moment.
“You changed my life,” Lydia said softly.
“How are they doing?”
I shook my head.
“You changed it yourself.”
She looked down the hallway where patients and nurses moved back and forth.
Then she looked back at me.
“My babies will never grow up ashamed of what their mom does for work,” Lydia said. “They’ll see me helping people every day.”
