For eight years, Chaltu Emana searched for the nurse who saved her and her baby's lives during a traumatic delivery at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. She only remembered the nurse's face, not her name.

Emana's labor, at 39 weeks, quickly turned dangerous when her uterus ruptured. Amid the chaos, one nurse stayed by her side, alerting doctors to the emergency and helping make sure both mom and child survived.

"I thought I was going to die, and I thought the baby was going to die too," Emana said.

Emergency surgery saved mom and baby

Minutes later, an emergency C-section saved them both. But Emana never learned the nurse's name and spent years asking hospital staff for help.

"I kept saying her name was like Gina or something, and they kept saying we don't know that person,"

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