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In a stunning display of awkwardness that could rival a middle school dance, President Joe Biden recently gushed about his hospitalization experience at Walter Reed during a healthcare event in Virginia Beach. The topic at hand was supposed to be about the importance of nurses, but it quickly turned into a cringe-worthy trip down memory lane for the president.
Biden, who was hospitalized in 1988 for two life-threatening brain aneurysms, couldn't resist the urge to give a shout-out to the nurses who cared for him during his stay. "Let me tell you, those nurses at Walter Reed were something else," he said, with a wistful look in his eye. "They treated me like a king. I mean, I had two aneurysms and they still managed to make me feel like a million bucks."
"I had a nurse named Pearl Nelson. She'd come in and do things I don't think you learn in nursing school. She'd whisper in my ear, I couldn't understand, but she'd whisper and she'd lean down and actually breathe on me to make sure there was a human connection."