Caribbean karma

She traces her desire to become a nurse back to growing up in her native Haiti, where as a 10-year-old girl she came to the aid of a bleeding man.

The barefoot man had been wading through a river near Annette Huelskamp’s home and cut his foot. The young girl raced over to the stricken man, tore off a piece of her skirt and tied the fabric over the wound to stop the hemorrhaging.

The grateful man blessed Huelskamp and may have put an angel on her shoulder. A few years later, she narrowly escaped death in a devastating earthquake that shook the Caribbean island nation.

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