{"id":3657,"date":"2025-05-08T19:38:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T19:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=3657"},"modified":"2025-05-08T19:38:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T19:38:35","slug":"the-unbelievable-story-of-amanda-scarpinati-moves-me-to-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=3657","title":{"rendered":"The unbelievable story of Amanda Scarpinati moves me to tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"98\" data-end=\"372\">In 1977, 3-month-old Amanda Scarpinati suffered severe burns after falling into a humidifier and was rushed to Albany Medical Center. A black-and-white photo captured a young nurse gently cradling her, bringing Amanda comfort through years of painful surgeries and bullying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"374\" data-end=\"582\">Haunted by the memory and touched by the nurse&#8217;s kindness, Amanda clung to the photo, hoping one day to find her. After searching for 20 years with no luck, she posted the photo on Facebook\u2014and it went viral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"584\" data-end=\"751\">The next day, a former hospital staffer recognized the nurse as Susan Berger, then 21 and fresh out of college. Susan had also saved the photo and never forgot Amanda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"753\" data-end=\"904\">After 38 years, the two shared an emotional reunion. Susan said she felt honored to be remembered and to represent all the nurses who cared for Amanda.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"753\" data-end=\"904\">\n<p data-start=\"753\" data-end=\"904\"><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>In 1977, 3-month-old Amanda Scarpinati suffered severe burns after falling into a humidifier and was rushed to Albany Medical Center. A black-and-white photo captured a young nurse gently cradling her, bringing Amanda comfort through years of painful surgeries and bullying. Haunted by the memory and touched by the nurse&#8217;s kindness, Amanda clung to the photo,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=3657\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The unbelievable story of Amanda Scarpinati moves me to tears&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657","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=3657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3658,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions\/3658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}