
Goodbye Miss McAbee: After 50 years of caring for sick children, awesome nurse retires: Just before 8 on the last morning of her 2,604th week on the job, a nurse in a kaleidoscopic scrub top hobbled across the lobby’s cream-colored tile and switched on the lights. At a computer in the back of the D.C. neighborhood health clinic, Clydia Lavenia McAbee — “Miss McAbee” to most — adjusted her black-rimmed Ray-Ban reading glasses to review the day’s list of patients, almost all of whom she knew well...click here to read the rest of this Washington Post profile of an inspirational SEIU 722 member.