Margaret was a patient of mine but I considered her to be more like family. Her warm smile and her laugh could make even the hardest shifts worth it all.
Margie is my older sister and she saved my life when I was about 10 years old. We were swimming at Good Lake, only a block from our house when a neighbor boy grabbed my leg and pulled me under while I was in deep water. I wasn’t a good swimmer and panicked. But Margie was a short distance away and rescued me, pulling me to safety.