{"id":32167,"date":"2026-08-04T12:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T12:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=32167"},"modified":"2026-08-04T12:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T12:58:16","slug":"amanda-scarpinatis-unbelievable-story-leaves-me-in-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=32167","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Scarpinati\u2019s Unbelievable Story Leaves Me in Tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">For nearly 40 years, Amanda Scarpinati kept a black-and-white photo of a nurse holding her as a baby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">In 1977, 3-month-old Amanda suffered severe burns after falling onto a hot-steam humidifier. At Albany Medical Center, nurse Susan Berger comforted the injured baby, and that photo became a source of strength for Amanda during years of surgeries and bullying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Determined to find the nurse who showed her kindness, Amanda searched for decades. When she finally shared the photo online, the internet helped reunite them.<\/p>\n<p>38 years later, Amanda and Susan met again in an emotional reunion \u2014 proving that one small act of compassion can leave a lifelong impact.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nurse Has Emotional Reunion with Burn Patient 40 Years Later\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Df7sCYKlXQk?feature=oembed\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For nearly 40 years, Amanda Scarpinati kept a black-and-white photo of a nurse holding her as a baby. In 1977, 3-month-old Amanda suffered severe burns after falling onto a hot-steam humidifier. At Albany Medical Center, nurse Susan Berger comforted the injured baby, and that photo became a source of strength for Amanda during years of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=32167\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Amanda Scarpinati\u2019s Unbelievable Story Leaves Me in Tears&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32169,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32167\/revisions\/32169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}