'It’s a stress reliever just to be with each other and see each other throughout these tough days.' These identical twin sisters are nurses working in the same COVID-19 unit.
The story behind this touching message from a COVID-19 patient who was recently discharged from an intensive care unit
Samantha and Rebecca Silverman are identical twin sisters working together as nurses in the COVID-19 unit at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago."It’s just nice when you’re having a rough day and you can turn around and see Samantha’s face," Rebecca told"" in an interview alongside her sister."It’s a stress reliever just to be with each other and see each other throughout these tough days.
Samantha and Rebecca Silverman are identical twin sisters working together as nurses in the COVID-19 unit at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago.They live close enough to each other that they had always been able to commute to work when their schedules allowed, but now they are working side-by-side to help the hospital's most critical patients during their 12-plus hour shifts.
"It’s physically exhausting. It’s mentally exhausting," Samantha said of the work she and Rebecca and their colleagues are doing."I feel like we’re all just working really hard and we all need each other right now." Samantha knew she wanted to be a nurse from a young age and pursued nursing while in college. Rebecca did not decide on a nursing career until later on in college and completed graduate school before becoming a registered nurse.Samantha has worked at Northwestern Memorial Hospital for the past three years, while Rebecca started at the hospital about six months ago.
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