TAMPA, Fla. —Whenever Michelle Rau is with her daughters Molly and Elizabeth, there’s a lot of love and a lot of laughs.
Now they’re sharing that love for each other with patients at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa.
What You Need To Know
- Michelle Rau and her daughters all work a Moffitt Cancer Center
- Michelle is a nurse; daughters are oncology techs, students
- Family members see different sides of each other at work
- Molly and Elizabeth say Michelle is an excellent role model
Molly and Elizabeth joined their mom, who is a nurse, to work at Moffitt.
“Sometimes I’ll tell my patients that my daughters are both here. I’ll have them pop in. And the patients love it,” Michelle says.
The sisters are both oncology techs and are in school pursuing medical careers of their own.
“Our mom always joked about how she isn’t going to see us as much when we moved out,” Elizabeth says. “Then she said. ‘You should come work with me and I can see you all the time!’ And that’s how we ended up here.”
Seeing each other at work gives them a whole new relationship. They work in nearby units and always make time for lunch.
“We knew from growing up that she was an awesome mom,” Elizabeth says. “But then we started working with her, and you can see aspects of her that you don’t see as a kid. And so it’s fun seeing the kindness she has toward others, too.”
“She raised us well to do exceptionally well in this environment,” Molly says. “She’s a great role model. It’s the best.”
Michelle feels the same way about her girls in return.
“As soon as they started working, I got so many messages from my nursing friends, saying, ‘We love your daughters. They’re so great. Can everybody be like them?’ So they really make me proud. They’re really good at their job,” Michelle says
It takes a certain kind of person to work with cancer patients on their hardest days. This team of three is sometimes just what the doctor ordered.
As Michelle says, it’s more of a calling than a career choice.
“A lot of it is just innate. But I try to teach them to be loving and caring. And understanding. But honestly, I think they just were born that way,” she says.
Molly actually just graduated from USF on Saturday with a pre-med degree. Elizabeth is pursuing the same one. They hope to one day have full-time careers working in oncology.
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