With a background in athletics, having taught aerobics for the YMCA for years, water aerobics in Thailand and competing on the National Parachuting-Giant Slalom ski team, she enjoyed the outdoors and the unique situations her skydiving students never failed to provide. After 10 years as an Industrial First Aid attendant and computer operator she found her passion to be in preventative health. Switching careers she has enjoyed a great variety in her 20 years of nursing having worked in rehabilitation medicine, pediatrics, surgery, neonatal intensive care, emergency, psychiatry, and oncology. Always, seeking new adventures and challenges, she was blessed with a child, the most fun, yet most demanding job of her life.