After being unable to see either of her grandmothers for nearly an entire year due to COVID restrictions, one Florida nurse can now proudly say she is personally responsible for giving both women the very vaccine that promises to protect them against the deadly virus.
As Good Morning America reported, Megan Patterson was recently given the incredible opportunity to administer the vaccine to her grandmothers, an experience which she says will certainly remain "a forever memory" for her.
"Both Gramma and Nana are huge influences in my life," she told GMA. "They were bonus moms [and] played huge parts of being available in my life growing up."
She actually lived with Gramma when she was younger, and although Nana lived two hours away, Patterson has fond childhood memories of both her grandmothers, who she told People are the reason she is the woman she is today.
Because of her extreme risk of exposure to the virus, she's been careful to limit her contact with other people, including her beloved grandmothers. Because of this, she went nearly an entire year without seeing two of her favorite women in the whole world face-to-face.
"It was so hard," Patterson told People. "They both have COPD [chronic obstructive pulmonary disease], so their lungs aren't in the best of shape."
On January 4, she shared a Facebook post revealing she was able to be the one to vaccinate Gramma after a colleague had offered her the opportunity.
"I think it was a huge part of medical history and everything that happened over the last year of not being able to see her and being so worried, I felt like I was having my own breakthrough in my career," Patterson told GMA of the experience. "And also, a forever memory that I was able to make with her."
Patterson said both of her grandmothers decided themselves to receive the shots and both made the appointments on their own accord — she was just lucky enough to be the one to administer the vaccine.
"Raise your hand if you got to vaccinate both your grandmas," she wrote in a Facebook post, adding a hand raising emoji. "Over a week ago, the Nana got #modernavaccice to protect herself against #covid_19. Sadly, she has yet to gain any super hero powers but on the flip side, she didn’t turn into a zombie either!"
"Nana, you’re still a superhero in my eyes."
h/t: Good Morning America, People
