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SHARON ARNOLD.Mid-Jeff Hospital’’Ihe greatest thing a “■•man can give is to love a child. Children arc tomorrow's hope. I love children. They're All mine. II | could lake them all home. I would.the pcrvnt speaking is Sharon tVVceksI Arnold lhc children she would lake home if she could arc 'he newly.born babies ai Mid-Jo ffcrson County Hospital in Nederland where Mrs Arnold u.eks as Parental Supervisor.I lose working with children and I’m happy being right where I am’ Mrs Aiitold said She lias .1 h'linevii member staff and is directly iiivohed With labor d,iivery, the n ii i s e r y . p o s i p.1 r i tiin. (; V N . and patients with female problems From ihe it mine m an vxpectam moiher arrives ai M.ICH until i Ik- .lav «hc pi mid parvtus take their habv home. Mrs Arnold is here 10 help and is doing lie work she loves.Ml hahies are heaui it til. ” Nurse Arnold said I .crv new horn hahv has his own scperau-persoitalnyilivivlualiivShe said ii is a myih 'halt; all new horn babies have blue eves.I hev an a comltination -I Uoh parents and grow mio .luiranerisiies.S»me hahies mute mu. ilic y.orl.l with (heir il.ivsaml nights mixed up anil do crv . Mrs Arnold said. A nervous parentusually equates with crying children.A mother can do all sorts of things to try to predict ihc sex of Iter baby, according io Mrs. Arnold. But it ail boils down io a fifty-fill y chance Alter three years at MICH. Mrs. Arnold s.nd I have.vet to sec a disappointed parent. Boy ot girl, there conies that first moment when a mother realizes liei hahv has come into the world alive ami healihv.M.ICH offers I amaze classes and Mrs Arnold said ahull H'lpcreont of ihcir births are with the I amaze method of child delivery. “If they use ihc breathing techniques and relax iheir bodies. she said, “only a small a mi hi m of medication is required for ihc hard part. Despite those moments of labor. Mrs Arnold said. Most mothers find childbirth happy and hcaunful. and are up and out of the bed. Keating us to tin- nursery.Nome fathers paw die waiting room floor, beeause o is trighienmg lowan and not know wltai is going .hi. Mis Arnold explained. Bui when a lather ts involved w tin I amaze met hmt. iltere are-less problems, because n is ihcir birth mo. and lit . are a part of it.Her position at M.K H is line Mrs. Arnold s fustnursing job. I arlier in her nursing career she was a nurse as a Lieutenant Commander in me li S N Navy, working with Vk-i Nam returnees.•Ii was difficult.. .very difficult, working on the military Hour.’’ she explained. trying to rebuild and restore people s faces and bodies, io help men tirul something worthwhile about life, to tout something to live tor.’I was iliascd down the hall be mum a parapalcgte in their w Iteelehairs. Mrs \tiiold laughed, finding calm* in seeing a scverlv wounded man • nice again restoring Ins interest in life.Ihe military eotp smen and patients are a breed ol ihcir oven. Mrs Arnold said. Tltcx have courage. Ami ill someway s. tlwv are wav wav above civilians flu-v take care lt;4 caelt oilier. IIk-v don’’ s.ie. I don’t wain to get involvedI lie same- love n| ihitdmi that fulfills Mis. Arnold in her |ub also lit Hills her personal file.lip until recently her lantily consisted of her husband Jerald, and llieir two children. 15-y car-old lone and IK-ycar old I arry Keith Then, something vcrv important happened in Sharon Arnolds life, the addition of Ou ida Ivnn.She is very special and vers legally mine!” Mrs Arnold beamed over her newly adopted baby. •We were told I exmldn’i have children and my husband told me to ‘stop asking whv‘. And one month later, we were offered Ottida. I believe it was a blessing front Heaven. We had been turned down by every place there was to apply for adoptions, for the* same old reasons Finally, a place in San Antonio tailed, and I was holding a one day old baby in my arms!Io bold a habv in her arms is a 'ny to Sharon Arnold, and she gets to do it every day at M.IC H as I'arental Supervisor. When she gels off work, her three children arc waning to see their mot her.Persons Interested In nominating someone as Employ c« of the Week” should write a nominating letter, staling why they think the person should be honored.They should Include the nominees »oti addrews. husine* and home phone number*. The letter* should be signed and Include Ihe phone number of the nominating persons. Call* for nomination* will also be taken by the editorial department of the Midcounty Newspaper* at 722-0479.
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Port Neches Midcounty Sunday Chronicle Review
Port Neches, Texas, US
Sun, May 11, 1980
Page 7
Full Page
Clipped by
Rosenberg L.
TX, USA 30 Mar 2017
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