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Obama Praises Nurses, Recalls Sasha Scare

Prez has lifelong respect for nurses after infant daughter's hospitalization

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(Newser) – President Barack Obama’s White House Internet town hall meeting yesterday wasn’t all business: he also discussed his soft spot for nurses, People reports. During his response to a health policy question, the president remembered the care given to daughter Sasha during her hospitalization with life-threatening meningitis at age 3 months. “I’m biased toward nurses. I just like nurses,” he said.

“The doctors did a terrific job,” he continued. “But frankly it was the nurses that were there with us when she had to get a spinal tap, and all sorts of things that were just bringing me to tears.”

In this Jan. 5, 2009, file photo, then President-elect Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama prepare their daughters Sasha, 7, and Malia, 10, for their first day of school in Washington.
In this Jan. 5, 2009, file photo, then President-elect Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama prepare their daughters Sasha, 7, and Malia, 10, for their first day of school in Washington.   (AP Photo/Obama Transition Office, Callie Shell)
President Barack Obama kisses his daughter Sasha after delivering his inaugural address during the inauguration ceremony at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009.
President Barack Obama kisses his daughter Sasha after delivering his inaugural address during the inauguration ceremony at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009.   (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Sasha Obama, daughter of President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, runs across the South Lawn and back to the White House in Washington.
Sasha Obama, daughter of President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, runs across the South Lawn and back to the White House in Washington.   (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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riffran
Mar 28, 09 1:02 AM CDT
I dont care who ya are.....when it's your baby...that stuff is down right scary....if not caught quickly by an attentive and trained crew, the prognosis is not very nice.......I hate helping the doc do pedi lumbar taps (yikes...yikes), but you gotta do what ya gotta do, for that precious child.... Reply
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