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Kumara Gunawardena
Caregiver and nurse, St. Mary's Maternity Hospital
- 🇱🇰 Dehiwala, Western, Sri Lanka
- St. Mary's Maternity Hospital
- 1998 to 2021
- English, Sinhala
I've been a nurse for 23 years, most of them in rehabilitation at St. Mary's Maternity Hospital in Dehiwala. Night shifts taught me patience, and patients taught me everything else.
The thing I'm proudest of is that families usually remember my name. I make terrible puns.
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I still get cards from families years later. They're pinned to my fridge.
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