When a nurse who had befriended an elderly care home resident decided to introduce the woman to her four grandkids, the children thought they “wouldn’t be able to talk to her.” Yet in opening their hearts and minds to a different kind of friendship, they found their “Bonus Grandma.”
The now-retired nurse, Vickie Rodgers of Southern Illinois, was so touched by her grandkids’ relationship with 93-year-old Ruby Foster, a U.S. cadet nurse during World War II, that she wrote a children’s book, titled “Ms. Ruby and The Gigi Squad: Friendship Comes in All Ages.”
