A nurse named Aly Hogarth has reunited with a mother and daughter at the same hospital ship 30 years after saving their lives.
In 1993, Ms Hogarth was touring a hospital ship in Sierra Leone when she knew that a patient Catherine Conteh needed a Caesarean section (剖腹产手术), but she couldn’t ____1____ it. Ms Hogarth contacted her colleagues and they paid for the £70 surgery, so that Catherine’s daughter, Regina, could be ____2____. Later, Ms Hogarth volunteered to take care of her in the hospital, ____3____ her wound and teaching her how to feed the baby. In this way Ms Hogarth formed a ____4____ with the mother and the baby, but they lost ____5____ when she returned home to New Zealand.
Ms Hogarth, now 52, volunteered for charity Mercy Ships. Surprisingly, she ____6____ Catherine and Regina at the same hospital ship. They both became nurses, inspired by Ms Hogarth, and Regina now has a child of her own.
Ms Hogarth said, “To see Catherine in person again, it’s very unreal really. It’s not something I ____7____ expected until we made contact again. For me, I felt ____8____ at the moment when we met and didn’t know how to react.” “We just cried and cried,” Catherine said. “Regina and I would have died without Ms Hogarth’s pure love.”
“It’s really ____9____ to see Catherine again,” Ms Hogarth shared. “I thought about her every time I told that story for the last 30 years. I know it was a significant time-realizing that you can make a real ____10____ by doing something.”