Love for Medicine

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 trying 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 your ruck sack. And if you can carry all your weight and keep up with the boys you get more respect that way and 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 hot meal at the end. It’s just like remember the time when it 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.