The first time I saw Sarge Ransom step into the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Willow Creek Medical Center, I felt a cold knot of pure panic tighten in my chest. I have been a charge nurse in this unit for eleven years. I know the rhythm of this room down to my very bones. I know the soft, synthetic hum of the ventilators, the warm, amber glow suspended over the plastic incubators, and the desperate, whispered bargains parents make with God in the middle of the night. This room…
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