Dr. Lauren Jenkins reads to her twin sons, Pierce and Ashton, while wearing her"hazmat" suit. Because lung cancer has compromised her husband's immune system, Jenkins moved out of her home and visited in the suit as a precaution.Dr. Lauren Jenkins reads to her twin sons, Pierce and Ashton, while wearing her"hazmat" suit. Because lung cancer has compromised her husband's immune system, Jenkins moved out of her home and visited in the suit as a precaution.Dr.
"I'm sitting there thinking, 'OK. I've been exposed. It's very likely that I've been infected. And it's very likely that I've infected my family,'" she says. Roux brought food to her room on a tray, she says,"and passed it through the door and ran away." When her family had all gone to bed, she put on a mask, grabbed bleach, and wiped down every surface she could find.
It was a massive relief. But she decided that as long as the pandemic dragged on, and as long as she was treating patients with the coronavirus, she could not put her family through that experience again. She would have to move out.At first, her husband argued that the family should stay together at their home in New Jersey. His cancer — and the heart problems from the treatment — make it hard to care for two energetic toddlers, even with the help of an au pair.He eventually came around.
The twins had been born prematurely and had subsequently spent months in the neonatal intensive care unit.
Hero!!
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Message to Dr. Lauren Jenkins - Your burden is great, but you do not have to carry it alone. How can we support you. We are praying for your family and strength, as well as for your ability to be stronger than what you have to go through every day. You are in our prayers.
Heart breaking😢
I hope to God he doesn’t I will be praying he doesn’t.🙏🏽
This is a picture of me from the future, teaching my students.
so when you read a story like this can you see how the re-opening 'protesters' look like total jerk-offs? so so so selfish i hope their hair and their nails look nice
This absolute love of self and family. Blessings
Gosh, the comments on this are terrible.
Thank you for your dedication. Hero
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Isn’t it already catastrophic to have stage 4 cancer?
They deserve a better country and president.
Go protest in Minneapolis and you'll be magically cured.
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We owe our HCW everything!!!
I feel more sorry for those children and husband than the so called educated wife whose already dead yet know it not..
Why did Democrats urge people to take to the streets during a pandemic?
The struggle for Doctors and their families (and other healthcare workers) is real. I am the wife and mother of doctors -- a hospitalist and a pediatrician. As they take precautions (and lots of showers after work) and socially isolate, even being home can feel risky. COVID19
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