Boston terror takes chaplains to new ground
Two days after the Boston Marathon bombings, Boston Medical Center chaplain Sister Maryanne Ruzzo was checking on staffers who’d been caring for the injured when she received a page. A bombing victim wanted to see her.
A woman in her thirties had lost a leg to amputation. Still suffering multiple injuries, she was now heading into surgery again, knowing she might wake up without her other leg.
Ruzzo stood among the woman’s parents and siblings and did what she does best: listen. She heard their fears, including concern for the woman’s husband, who was being treated at a different hospital and who also might lose a leg to amputation. Then she prayed.
