![]() ![]() It would be several years before she took a day off. She was up and out of the house before her children left for school and home close to bedtime. to 8 p.m., 12 hours a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year. "You have to explain it to her, you have to educate her who is coming, what is that for - at times we have some difficulty." A small, compact woman with warm, dark eyes and black hair flecked with gray, Hadassah described patience as the key to her chemistry with Huguette. "You have to convince her," explained Hadassah later. When they couldn’t reach Hadassah, the other nurses would sometimes pretend that they were talking with her on the phone, telling Huguette that Hadassah said it was time to check her blood pressure. She refused most medical treatments unless Hadassah was there to hold her hand and talk calmingly. And after Huguette's death in 2011, the nurse is in the will for about another $30 million, or about $15 million after taxes.ĭoctors and nurses said Huguette at first was "extremely frightened" of new people. Hadassah and her family received more than $31 million in gifts while Huguette lived in the hospital. ![]()
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