The third profile in this book stuck out to me. Sharon Long is a forensic artist and she has a natural talent for her work. In her profile, she shows that anybody can continue to follow their own path no matter what you have going on in life or how old you are. She was forty with two daughters and she wanted to go to college so she did. She found what she wanted to do through college and she is very gifted in making skulls.
She shows how much she loves her work. Even with the bad days, she enjoys doing what she does. She is committed and continues to learn as she moves on. There is always something to learn. You never know it all. In her profile she says “”Aren’t I awful? With friends I can say, “Can I poke on your face a little?”” She is trying to learn the facial structure when she asks this to her friends.
All my life, I have wanted to do something in the medical field. I can relate to Sharon when she wants to ask her friends if she can touch their face. There are different professions where asking those questions is not as weird to them as people take it. As a medic, people will tell me stories about some type of trauma that they had to experience and I would ask if they had any pictures or can I see the scar. I think that it is interesting how some injuries happen and it helps me learn because if I were to see anything like a specific bruise again, I would know what it is and maybe even how to help. For example, that is how I learned about raccoon eyes. Raccoon eyes are a sign of a brain injury and I had a close friend of mine tell me about her son when he was affected by trauma to the head and he developed raccoon eyes. That night I went home to research what it was, what caused it, and what to do when you see it.
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| This is a visual of raccoon eyes caused by head trauma. |
Abigail
ReplyDeleteI have so much respect for you and your passion for helping others. I also appreciate how you can compare your military life so often, and It is apparent you love being a soldier. Thank you for teaching me about raccoon eyes. I never knew that and found that to be very interesting. Something I will use with my players when they suffer a headshot.
Keep up the great work, and Thank you once again for your selfless service.
Abigail,
ReplyDeleteI agree that you can tell how much she loves her job. I believe that to be so great. In relation to the portion of the book I chose, both of the people we picked admired their jobs. I find this to be so rare now. I too love the medical field. I look forward to reading more of your work.
Abigail,
ReplyDeleteI thank you for your service and your courageousness! I think that it’s cool that we have similar interests. I’ve always felt that I was weird for being interested in morbid things like injuries, but it is nice to know that I am not the only one.