Amy Ross:  

Hi Everyone! This is basically what is going on with me... I am 34 years old now and a Registered Nurse at Emory. I spent 10 years earlier on in my career as a paramedic, 7 years of which I worked for Grady EMS. To put it all in chronological order, after high school I waitressed for a while, wasted some time but pretty quickly got into EMT and then paramedic school. When I was 21 I went to work for Grady EMS running 911 calls in the city of Atlanta. While I was working at Grady I moved to Athens and went to UGA to get a BS in Chemistry. I didn't finish, but came close. Then I got married in 2002. While I was married I went back to college at the University of West Georgia, but decided to get a Bachelor's of Science in Nursing and took my RN boards. My ex-husband and I lived in Villa Rica for 4 years, so that is why I went to the University of West Georgia, plus I think they have the best BSN program in the state (but of course I am biased!) Another update on me, I got stage IV thyroid cancer in 2005 but am disease-free now. That was quite a trip! Whew! Hope I never have to go through that again, but I'm grateful to have made it. I got a divorce (never had kids) just last July (2007). I think the stress of the cancer was too much for a marriage that wasn't strong to begin with. So I moved from Villa Rica to Decatur and live right across the street from my parking deck for work. I relax by doing Sudoku puzzles, New York Times c...Expand for more