Love for Medicine
Heroes Remember
I actually really enjoyed the medicine.
I found that out on the paramedic course.
I wasn’t a great student always.
I was too focused on socializing and
sports going through school and I got
great grades because I was into the
medicine for the paramedic course.
So then moving to Edmonton the
challenge there was to try to fit in with
these battalions or regiments.
I mean it’s hard army and not many
women do this. So I want to be infantry
medic then, if that’s the hardest then
that’s what I want to do.
I had a passion for, and I still do,
of helping high profile or fit people maintain
that degree of fitness and if there is ever
a chance whether it’s a cold or a broken
ankle or whatever I want to get that person
back up to their one hundred percent.
It was a challenge to try to fit in say 2003,
with the battalion lifestyle but I worked
my way in socially like bits and pieces
at a time and got to know one or two
people at a time and in turn I introduced
a couple more. And you go to the field
and you are carrying all your weight
on your back in the ruck sack.
And if you can carry your weight and
keep up with the boys you get more
respect that way and so just over time
evolved into kind of the brotherhood
I guess in a sense that a sense of
belonging and really rewarding work
because you are all tired, you are all
hungry, you are sleep deprived,
you are going through things like that
together and then you all get a shower
and a hot meal at the end.
It’s just like remember the time when
that was so bad, well it became not so
bad after a while and then
Afghanistan spooled up and I jumped
at that in a heartbeat.
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