I have had a lot of great new experiences as a nurse since becoming one in 2006. I guess the thing that brings me to share this story though is how it came about for me to become a nurse. I worked in electronics as an engineer for approximately 15 years. I then decided to start a family and found out at 15 weeks that my family was going from just the two of us to a family of 5. The triplet pregnancy, I thought I was going to breeze through, quickly became complicated at just 17 weeks when I was put on bedrest. My first trip to the hospital was at 19 weeks with lots of medications to stop contractions and delivery. I stayed for almost a week and was discharged. Within a few days, I was back and at that time, my perinatologist decided I would be there until I delivered since I lived over an hour away. The great team of people, nurses especially, that took care of me changed my life forever. I decided after making it to 31 weeks with their care and dedication to my wonderful healthy triplet pregnancy outcome, that I wanted to become a member of that team. I went back to school when my triplets were 2 taking one class at a time and am now working in cardiac and I love my new career. I have the nurses that listened to me when I thought I couldn't make it through another day in bed, crying because my extended family was so far away and my husband couldn't be there every day, or just talking because I was alone for so many days and worried every minute about my babies while I contracted constantly. Their strength, knowledge, care, dedication and support made me want to be a nurse and I am so glad I did it! Thank you.


Name: Sharon
City: Londonderry
State: NH