Not for the last time, I’m going to say how proud I am of my younger daughter Melissa (aka Aunt Liss), seen here providing a much-needed lap nap to niece Ellis over the holidays …
Yesterday Meliss posted this on her Facebook and Instagram accounts …
The back story is that Meliss was a wonderfully free spirit in high school. This picture from her senior year Homecoming parade shows her and a friend doing a send-up in a little red wagon of the Homecoming “royalty” waving from their sporty cars …
Unfortunately, she was less than enthusiastic about her grades back then, which haunted her when she tried, unsuccessfully, to get into nursing school.
Half a lifetime, a marriage, a house, and a family later, Meliss went back to school to earn the credits she needed to apply once again to nursing school. This time around she made it into a competitive two-year accelerated program that will result in a BSN (Bachelor of Science in Nursing), with which she hopes to go into Labor and Delivery care.
And she still makes me smile as much as she did back in the day …
So that’s the story behind today’s tiny nine patch …
complete with stitches that match that awesome hot pink stethoscope.
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Everyone’s journey has a timetable of its own. She’s a keeper. Love her bunches.
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amen
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Congrats to her! May this next part of her journey be a fulfilling adventure!
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She tells us the full-time program is really hard (especially the virtual classes necessitated by Covid), but the eyes practically glow as she talks about it all
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A good lesson for all of us– never give up on those dreams!!
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Persistence is definitely one of her strengths
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Congratulations to Melissa for keeping her dreams alive. You must be very proud of her. My prospective daughter-in-law is pursuing the same goal….tough to do in pandemic times.
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Exactly … off-site learning in a hands-on profession is tough! But nurses are do-ers … best wishes to your soon-to-be daughter-in-law
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Congratulations. Huge kudos to a second act.
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I can’t help thinking she is getting so much more out of the experience by doing it at this point in her life
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That’s what a little maturity will do.
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nurses are angels in disguise!
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even as a teenager working as an assistant in a physical therapy practice, it was obvious that she had a healer’s hands …
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What a wonderful journey she is on. Thank you Liz for sharing her with all of us.
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I’m looking forward to further sharing her journey here
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my favorite part is the hot pink stitches.
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they are everything
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It feels right for now – even without the nursing connection – time to heal. That said, a fabulous story – nevertheless, she persisted! And looks like she just loves loves loves it!
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she does and she will … and for sure she will need many pockets
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Love this. Sometimes the timing just needs to be right. I student taught twice and learned the second time what I really needed to know. 🙂 Congratulations Melissa!
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You’re so right … I left research librarianship and became a public school librarian at the age of 41, then stayed with it until I retired … I wouldn’t have lasted two years in my 20s!
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Hi L – talk about persisting – well done her B
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