LAWRENCE, MASS. (WHDH) - One nurse is doing everything she can to help her patients in the wake of Thursday night’s explosions and fires.
Melissa Campello, a visiting nurse, walked up and down the streets of South Lawrence Friday, trying to see all ten of her patients to make sure they were OK despite the widespread evacuations.
The only problem, she couldn’t drive to them because roadblocks were still in effect.
“I’ve been walking for over two hours now to see them, get meds, get insulin,” she said.
Campello works with Boston Home Health, which means missing work on Friday wasn’t an option.
“If they don’t get their insulin, they could possibly die,” she said. “It’s what I got into nursing for, helping people. If it was my mother, my sister, my father, I would hope somebody would do that for them.”
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