CHILDHOOD AMBITION
To be a go-go dancer.
FONDEST MEMORY
Working weekends in the surgical ICU at the Detroit Medical Center with the funniest group of people (you know who you are).
FAVORITE KIND OF MUSIC
I'm definitely a rocker.
WILDEST DREAM
To win the lottery.
PROUDEST MOMENT
The day my son was born.
PERFECT DAY
Every Christmas Eve, with my family and my husband's family, eating, drinking, opening presents, and playing Mexican Bingo.
FIRST HEALTH CARE JOB
I was a nursing assistant on a medical-surgical floor caring for patients, 99% of whom were admitted from nursing homes.
INDULGENCE
Buying one more pair of shoes or another purse that I don't need.
LAST PURCHASE
A purse and a pair of shoes.
INSPIRATION
The people who take perfect care of chronically ill loved ones at home.
SCARIEST EXPERIENCE
Every time my patients coded.
BEST VACATION
When my family and I toured Lima, Peru with my brother's family.
FAVORITE MOVIES
Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz.
WORST DATE'S FIRST NAME
Chico.
FAVORITE BOOK
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, especially when Elizabeth realizes how prideful she has been, something she thought she wasn't capable of.
DREAM VACATION
To travel anywhere abroad.
I ASPIRE TO [horizontal ellipsis]
Obtain a PhD.
NURSING AMBITION
To one day go on a medical mission to a Spanish-speaking country.