Nurse Nina Pham Returns Home to Texas Ebola-Free - and Wants to 'Get Back to a Normal Life'


Nurse Nina Pham Returns Home to Texas Ebola-Free


Nurse Nina Pham is presented with scrubs signed with well wishes by her colleagues


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10/25/2014 AT 04:10 PM EDT



Nurse Nina Pham returned home to Texas shortly before midnight Friday after being declared Ebola-free – and was presented with scrubs signed by her colleagues at Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas.

"She's in good spirits," CareFlite pilot Jason Davis told The Dallas Morning News after she arrived at Fort Worth's Meacham International Airport.


She was traveling with her mother, Diana, and sister, Cathy, and was greeted at the airport by her father, Peter, according to Texas Presbyterian.


Earlier in the day, Pham, 26, visited with President Obama at the White House and read a statement at a news conference at the National Institute of Health's hospital in Bethesda, Maryland.


"I would first and foremost like to thank God, my family, and friends," she said.


"I believe in the power of prayer because I know so many people all over the world have been praying for me," she said. "I do not know how I can ever thank everyone enough for their prayers and their expressions of concern, hope and love."


Pham then asked for privacy as she tries "to get back to a normal life and reunite with my dog Bentley."






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