Lori says 'work was my community'.
Transcript
Work was not only my social life. It was – you know you got to see surgeries. You got to see patients either recover or you cried for the ones who couldn’t recover. You know you got to know everybody like staff, patients, families, families of patients. To me it was my community and now I don’t have that and I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to go back to work now.
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