CHILDHOOD AMBITION
To become a veterinarian.
FONDEST MEMORIES
The birth of my children.
FAVORITE MUSIC
Classical to hip-hop.
WILDEST DREAM
To learn to fly a helicopter.
PROUDEST MOMENT
Being chosen as an interpreter for a group of physicians from Spain, at the Naval Hospital Pensacola in Pensacola, Florida.
PERFECT DAY
Hiking and four-wheeling in the Arizona desert.
FIRST NURSING JOB
Trauma ICU.
INDULGENCE OR SECRET SIN
The occasional cigar.
LAST PURCHASE
Laptop.
INSPIRATION
My wife's courage in fighting breast cancer.
SCARIEST MOMENT
The morning my wife called to tell me she had been diagnosed with breast cancer.
BEST VACATION
Snorkeling and kayaking in Key West and the Dry Tortugas National Park.
FAVORITE MOVIES
The Godfather trilogy.
FAVORITE FOOD
Japanese.
WORST DATE'S FIRST NAME
Mary.
FAVORITE BOOKS
The In Death series by J. D. Robb.
DREAM VACATION
Jamaica.
I ASPIRE [horizontal ellipsis]
To work as an advanced practice nurse in a rural Arizona town.
Nursing ambition
To complete the master's program, to become an NP.