Hmmm, I have been told I am a great patient advocate and teacher and I'm extremely intelligent. those compliments make me very uncomfortable. It took many year of therapy to realize maybe I did have worth, maybe god had a plan. Slowly this confident, outspoken, compassionate woman began to emerge. I realized I am where I am, despite where I began, I am a self made woman who may have stumbled along the way but I stood back up, and at times with the help of an outreached hand of someone believed. How many of us as children when asked "what do you want to be when you grow up" say - a drug addict, homeless, raped, quit school, prostitute be abused? Some people are resigned in their station in life, but there comes a time in life where a woman will question who an I? someone"s -wife, mother, daughter, girlfriend, but who and I. I soul searched, I remember my saint of a grandmother who loved me to the moon and back whispered in my ear frequently "when you grow up your going to be a nurse," Once on that path I promised her I would not quit she never lived long enough to see "our" dream, but I would like to think I make her proud everyday. I never had the opportunity to go to high school because from age of 13-17 I slept in a laundromat, sat out side liquor stores asking random people to get me something to drink, slept with people to get a shower or washed up in a gas station bathroom. Stole clothes and food. I came from that far down place also, these same woman can't see their worth/ potential because its easier to believe the bad rather than the good.
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