Yolanda Dyer is my absolute, most favorite person at Johns Hopkins. She has been a scrub nurse at Hopkins for many many years. My first day in the OR she asked me my name so she could write it up on the board and she didn't believe me when I first said Dyer. She was like "Whaaaaat!?! Let me see your name tag..... Oh, I gotta show people this. You my sista, yes you my sista frum anotha mutha!" And since then every time I see her passing in the hall or in the OR we say "Hey Sista!!" Even the other OR nurses have caught on and call us sisters.
The other day I ran into Yolanda in the hall as she was talking to another nurse. When I got closer I noticed tears in her eyes and running down her cheeks. She was just having one of those days that we all have and venting to her friend. When she saw me she said "Hey Sista" and introduced me to her friend. She was like "oh I wish I had a cell phone so I could take a picture of us. I was tellin' another girl friend about this little white girl who has the same last name as me, and I wish I could show people a picture of us." So I got out my phone and had the other nurse take a picture of us with our name tags, then I emailed it to her so she could print it out. It made me feel good because by the end of our short meeting in the hall Yolanda was happy, smiling, and being her cheerful self again.
I love this picture of us together!
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I left Hopkins 4 years ago and the news still broke my heart. I am glad to know that she spread joy until her last days and she will be missed by many. Thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI did not know Yolanda like a lot of other people did, but whenever we saw each other, she always spoke to me and was very nice to me. She called me "troublemaker" because I'd play around sometimes lol. She will definitely be missed.
ReplyDeleteShe will definitely be missed
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