continued MY STORY

I MADE SOME CORRECTIONS DIDN'T POST BUT WILL REPEAT THE TWO PENNY CAUGHT WHILE READING THIS DRUG OUT STORY.

IT REALLY WAS THE VIETNAM WAR NOT THE KOREAN THAT VERELAN DIDN'T GO TO SINCE HE HAD FOUR HUNGRY MOUTHS TO FEED. THEN PENNY SAID SHE WAS TWELVE THE YEAR WE GOT THE PIANO. NO WONDER IT WAS NOT EASY FOR CHUCK AND CLAY TO WANT TO BE PIANISTS. THER IS ONE MORE CORRECTION I'LL MAKE SOME WHERE LATER AS PENNY IS LOOKING FOR IT NOW.

I FOR GOT TO INCLUDE TELLING ABOUT HAVING MY APPENDIX OUT AND TALKING WITH NURSES AT THE HOSPITAL ABOUT NURSING. SOME HOW THAT DESIRE NEVER WENT AWAY. AFTER I RECOVERED VERELAN HAD HEARD ME TALKING AND HE GAVE HIS WHOLE HEARTED APPROVAL AND EVEN PUSHED ME TO GO ALONG WITH TAKING L.P.N. TRAINING. THE L.D.S. HOSPITAL HAD STARTED A CLASS AND IT WOULD BE ANOTHER SIX MONTHS BEFORE THEY STARTED ANOTHER. I WAS TOLD TO CHECK WITH THE SACRED HEART HOSPITAL WHICH I DID AND AT FIRST WAS SENT TO THE LAB AS THEY NEEDED ASSISTANTS THERE. SOME HOW I WAS SENT TO SEE SISTER ALVERNIA AND SHE LATER CALLED ME TO TELL ME SHE LIKED WHAT SHE SAW IN ME AND THAT I'D MAKE A VERY GOOD NURSE. THE CLASS STARTED IN SEPT. SO WITH MY CHILDREN IN SCHOOL I SIGHNED UP AND STARTED A YEAR LONG TRAINING. WE

STARTED WITH THE LUCKY NUMBER THIRTEEN IN THE CLASS AND GRADUATED WITH NINE.

WE HAD CLASSES FOR THREE MONTHS AND IN THEM USED EACH OTHER AS PATIENTS AND LEARNED THE TECHNIQUES WE'D NEED. I WON'T GO INTO THOSE AT THIS TIME. WE DIDN'T LEARN ABOUT SEEING OUR FIRST PATIENT LEAVE THIS WORLD AN EXPERIENCE I WON'T FORGET. I CAN STILL SEE THE MAN AS HE STRUGGLED TO GET OUT OF LIFE.


AFTER THE THREE MONTH'S WE WERE ASSIGNED FLOORS TO WORK ON FOR ACTUAL PATIENT CARE. FIRST SEEING THE PT. FED DEPENDING ON THE FLOOR WE WENT TO FIRST. I WAS ON THE MEDICAL FLOOR THEN WENT TO SURGICAL OB AND VERY LITTLE NURSERY THEN PEDIATRICS. WE HAD A HOSPITAL CHRISTMAS PARTY THE SISTERS WAITED ON US AND GAVE US A LITTLE BONUS AS I RECALL. THEN FOR GRADUATION SISTER ALVERNIA WENT ALL OUT TO RECOGNIZE HER CLASS. I HAD BEEN ASK TO WORK ON MEDICAL FLOOR AND SOON GRADUATED TO PEDS. I LOVED WORKING THERE WHEN THERE WAS ENOUGH PATIENTS THAT I WAS NEEDED. THERE COULD BE LOTS OF STORY'S TOLD BUT MAY BE BORING SO WILL MOVE ON.

I HAD BEEN IN PEDS FOR SEVERAL MONTHS WHEN DR. BYRON WEEKS SISTER WAS WORKING THERE AND TOLD ME HE WAS LOOKING FOR AN OFFICE NURSE. I APPLIED AND WITH HIS SITERS RECOMMEDATION I WAS HIRED. I WORKED THERE FOR 5 YEARS THEN HE FOUND A MISTRESS AND DECIDED SINCE SHE WAS AN R.N. HE WOULD LET ME GO AND HIRE HER TO REPLACE ME. THE FIRST TIME I'D BEEN FIRED FROM ANYTHING. THAT WAS A HARD BLOW TO MY EGO. I SPENT A FEW WEEKS RESTING AND DOING THINGS THAT NEEDED TO BE DONE AT HOME. ONE DAY I GOT A CALL FROM THE DR. ASKING ME IF I WERE WORKING YET AND TOLD ME TO GO TO THE L.D.S HOSPITAL AS THEY NEEDED HELP. I STILL RESPECT HIS DESIRE TO SEE ME EMPLOYED BUT HAD A HARD TIME ADJUSTING TO BEING FIRED. I WENT AND APPLIED AND WAS HIRED ALMOST IMMEDIATLEY TO WORK ON MEDICAL FLOOR.


OUR SQUARE DANCING STARTED JUST BEFORE I LEFT SACRED HEART AND CONTINUED ON FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS. WHILE ALL THIS WAS GOING ON AND I WAS WORKING FOR THE DR. WAS WHEN VERELAN AND I BECAME ACTIVE IN THE CHURCH. NOW AS I LOOK BACK I'M SURE THE BELL'S AND OMANSON'S WERE PRIMING US FOR ACTIVITY IN THE CHURCH. WE JUST DIDN'T RECOGNIZE IT AT THE TIME. I DIDN'T WORK WEEK ENDS WHILE IN THE DRS. OFFICE SO COULD GO BACK TO CHURCH AS I TOLD PRIOR TO THIS.


TODAY WHILE ANDRA AND I HAD LUNCH SHE ASK WHAT WAS THE BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE. I TOLD HER THAT WAS A HARD ONE TO ANSWERE BUT AS I THOUGHT BACK I KNEW IT HAD TO BE WHEN WE BECAME ACTIVE AND WENT TO THE TEMPLE. SHE ASK IF MY PARENTS WAS STILL LIVING AND I TOLD HER YES AND THAT WHEN I CALLED MOM TO TELL HER WE WOULD BE GOING ON MAY TWENTY FIRST SHE SAID" WITH TEARS IN HER VOICE "I ALWAYS KNEW VERELAN WOULD TAKE YOU TO THE TEMPLE AND WE WILL BE THERE." DAD DROVE FROM OGDEN SO THEY COULD ATTEND. I TOLD ANDRA HE SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN DRIVING AND SHE WANTED TO KNOW IF HE WERE KNOWN TO BE A CRAZY DRIVER. I TOLD HER HE GREW UP IN THE HORSE AND BUGGY DAYS AND SORTA DROVE LIKE THAT.