When Tricia Seaman, an oncology nurse at Pinnacle Health Community General in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, first approached patient Tricia Somers, Somers felt something she had never felt before.
“Before she even said anything, I just felt comfort. It was almost like somebody put a warm blanket on me. I never anything like that before felt or any other connection with anybody else,” Somers CBS News’ Steven Hartman.
Giving off that kind of warmth is just a part of the job for Seaman, who says she truly loves her line of work.
But neither Seaman or Somers had any other idea that their connection would grow even stronger.
Somers was a single mom with an 8-year-old son and had just found out that her cancer was terminal.
“What do you say to somebody?” Seaman said. “She’s 45 years old. So I just gave her a hug and she said, ‘I have something that I need to ask you.'”
Both of Somers’ parents passed away from cancer and she had moved to Harrisburg as a way to escape a domestic violence situation.
So, she didn’t have anyone to take care of her son in the event that she died.
Right then and there, despite barely knowing each other, Somers asked Seaman if she would adopt her son when she passed away.
Somers just instinctually knew that her child would do well in the hands of a true angel like Seaman.
Seaman, who has three children of her own, believed the request was fate for more reasons than them just sharing the same first name with the same spelling and initials.
“We need to try to help this woman,” Seaman recalled her husband Dan saying, according to TODAY. “We just need to follow whatever it is God wants us to do here.”
Seaman’s family agreed to take in the 8-year-old boy Wesley.
Before being asked to adopt Wesley, Seaman, who has four children of her own, was looking to adopt after being told that additional pregnancies might cause complications for her health.
Not long after that, Somers went home to God.
He was just gifted a keychain that reads “Drive Safely” to go along with his new learner’s permit that his mom set aside for him along with other birthday gifts before she died.
“I think it was the only thing she could think to do, really. And I’m thankful every day that she made that decision,” Wesley said of his mom’s snap decision in asking Seaman to adopt him.
And Seaman is quite proud of the man that Somers is becoming.
“He’s exceptional. But the most important thing is he just has such a kind and loving heart,” Seaman said.
Now Wesley, refers to the Seamans as his parents, though he visits with his biological father twice a year.
“When Tricia was dying she actually said to me, ‘Stop crying!’ and I said, ‘I can’t help it I don’t want to let you go!’ ” Seaman said, according to People. “She then thanked me for taking in Wesley, but I said, ‘No, don’t thank me, I want to thank you.’ I told her, ‘Because you have changed my life for the better and Wesley is in the best of hands, you’ll never have to worry. You can rest easy.’”
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