Candyce

But one of my professors, she had said, what did she say?

That they should do more research about sleep apnea in younger children and babies.

And I don't know how you would do that specifically, but they also need to do more research in the adults with sleep apnea and work their way down, if that makes sense.

She thinks that could help with research.

I don't know.

She's educated.

It does make you think, though.

Like, what else?

Yeah, she's the reason why I do anything now.

I'm actually planning on going to nursing schools specifically to help people, especially babies.

I would like to be a NICU nurse, help save babies anywhere that I can.

I think I'm nervous to say that on such a public platform too because I don't want families or hospitals to come in and think that my grief is going to overshadow the care that I give to their family members.

I think it only makes me more compassionate and empathetic and I'm able to once again relate to parents going through such a tough time.

Well, I also wasn't planning on going into nursing.

I had originally planned to go in for radiology.

I took an intro to radiology class for last semester and I had to do a radiology clinicals at our hospital.

And of course they were working on a nine month old baby girl.

So similar to Delilah, closer in age, the imaging staff was amazing and professional.

But in that moment, you just have this nine month old baby girl bawling her eyes out because she's in so much pain and

And in that moment, I knew I'm not supposed to be here.