hmmmm... I may have to come back and add to this as I go
I was born in Beaumont, Tx - my father is from the Maryland/PA area and my mother from here. I have an older brother, a younger brother, and 2 younger sisters. A rather large family of seven, we grew up
dirt poor in the sixties and seventies.
tho we had lots of fun (that's me on the right
). My dad has always run his own business as long as I can remember - we began working in it when I was 12-13, every afternoon after school and every saturday - my siblings and I built/painted/installed pickup campers and accessories (yes, it's big bidness here in TX
). I missed some stuff growing up but it kept us out of trouble too.
In highschool, I played football, ran some track, played trumpet in the band and sang in the choir (was the prez a couple years and in all-region/area/etc choir as well
). Went into college hating school, so instead of becoming the doctor I thought I was gonna be, I went into nursing school instead. Played in the band, lifted on the powerlifting team, and graduated with a BSN in nursing.
I went into working in the NICU (neonatal ICU) after college and have done mostly that for the last 16 years. I have worked in some of the largest NICU's in the country (
Texas Childrens Hospital (hundreds of beds) among others - we had a set of octuplets born one time
) and some of the smallest (4 beds). I have attended >3,000 high-risk deliveries, seen babies born with no neck (no cervical spine), their intestines hanging out of their stomach, no brain, a third leg, and born at birthweights anywhere from 220grams to 15 pounds. I have inserted thousands of IV's, intubated, resucitated, inserted chest tubes, etc etc etc..
oh, and I believe I have changed one
millyun diapers
I have worked ER, pediatrics (like'm), adult ICU (didn't like it), and most every other floor from staff nurse to hospital supervisor on weekends. In the early 90's I was part of a team who installed a computer network in my hospital and have been hooked on computers since
I finished an MBA a few years ago (took 8 years to get it
) and have since worked back at my dad's business over accounting/HR/ and computers
I lost one sister in a car accident in 1986 (she was 22) and another in 1997 (she was 23) - both had small children. I have 7 nephews and one niece
I am a thousand years old and never married, but will one of these days
In the mid-late 90's I competed in bodybuilding competitions 4 different times... I never was all that good (not big enough for my height), but enjoyed it and prolly will compete next summer when I am eligible for masters competitions.
I started lifting weights in 11th grade and have been at it ever since (~22-23 years now
). I play volleyball and softball when I drag myself away from the computer.
In the fall of '98
I met a guy in front of the gym who invited me to a 'bible study' - they haven't been able to make me stop going since then. In the fall of '99 I was volunteered to make a website for the group, I had read in INC magazine how
someone was doing well with a ubb on their site, so I bought one for stand's site. A few months later I joined UBB Code Hackers Hideout, answered thousands of questions, moved up the ranks until I became an admin, and we moved the site to ubbdev a couple years ago. Last fall I was asked (or did I beg?
)... anyways, I became one of the admins for threadsdev... and here we are
I have an
old house in a historic section of town, am driving the wheels off a '98 durango, plan to go back to work in the hospital in the next few weeks, and skiing the first week of january
whew, not sure if I have typed that much at once in a long time
