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Administrative assistant shares bond with supervisor at Community Health

Posted at 7:39 PM, Apr 26, 2017
and last updated 2017-04-26 19:43:35-04

INDIANAPOLIS – The job of an administrative assistant can mean anything from sitting through long meetings to grabbing coffee, but an executive assistant at Community Health Network shares a different connection with her supervisor.

Leslie Harley and her supervisor Kyle Fisher, were dealt some of life’s sourest lemons that ultimately led them to a healthy work relationship.

Harley lost her son Sammy at the age of four.

“The ultrasound revealed that his brain did not develop the way it should,” said Harley. “The odds of a fetus with Holoprosencephaly surviving to birth is three percent.”

During their short time together, Harley said Sammy couldn’t walk or talk, but family made sure he did things many other children would do at his age.

Harley’s experience led her to Community Health where she met Fisher.

The two connect on the subject of health, as Fisher was diagnosed with Non-Hodskin’s Lymphoma.

“I had tumors that were collapsing my lungs, my kidneys, I couldn't breathe, it was not good,” said Fisher. “My motivation was one thing: I was going to walk her (his daughter) down the aisle. I'm going to do that. I'm going to do that.”

Fisher was recently nominated as a candidate in the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's man & Woman of the Year competition.

Harley said the perspective her and Fisher have puts a personal touch on their work.

 

“He and I have the perspective of what we've been through and the fact that we both know that there are people in our hospitals who are saying goodbye to someone that they love,” she said.