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Sandra Carroll: There's passion here and I can tell you a short story. The reason I became a neonatal
therapist was because as a new graduate
I was working in a large hospital
performing my occupational therapy duties on
patients with strokes, spinal chord injuries, head injuries, burns
and I followed and shadowed a therapist who cover the neonatal intensive care unit
and once I got into the N.I.C.U. I fell in love with it. I couldn't
believe that this was something I could do as a job and get paid for.
She recognized that passion in me
and mentored me along and
when she took off work I would cover the N.I.C.U. so I kind of learned and I
started
paying for courses on my own, buying my own books
She went out for two weeks
one time and
she died. By default I became the N.I.C.U. therapist.
She was 34 years old,
she had lupos, her name was Lynette.
During that two weeks that she was out before she passed away
she had a box of books deliver to my door with a note that said
she wanted me to be the person who took this knowledge on
and carried it on because she recognized passion in me.
So I feel compelled
to carry what she had, the passion that she had,
to carry it on and share it with others.
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