Through layers of protective gear, a married nurse couple shared a tender moment while tending to coronavirus patients at a busy Florida hospital
Between surgeries one stressful morning, Ben Cayer and Mindy Brock — husband and wife and fellow nurse anesthetists — peered through layers of protective gear and locked eyes."Everybody's talking about the photo," says Cayer, 46. It strikes a chord "because we're all going through the same thing right now, and it's a symbol of hope and love."
This April 2015 photo provided by Richard Bell Photography shows Mindy and Ben Cayer during their wedding in Charleston, SC.The Florida pair share a home, a profession, and, now, a mission — shouldering the high-risk duty of placing breathing tubes in surgery patients, any of whom may have COVID-19. They didn't think twice about volunteering for Tampa General Hospital's new "airway team," Cayer says.
Their patients have been in car crashes or needed brain surgery because of a ruptured blood vessel. As is the case at many US hospitals, only emergency surgeries continue at the Tampa hospital to make room as the pandemic continues to crest.They met in nurse anesthesia school in 2007. In classes, they sat in alphabetical order. Brock next to Cayer, she says, "and it just took off from there.
The new COVID-19 procedures — it was Brock's first day on the new team — were making them both tense. "We were arguing," she says. Later, they found each other between surgeries. The tension melted.
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