Charmaine Garner:  

12/03/08 Hello Everyone from the class of "70". Thirty eight years has gone by and we're still getting younger but wider, I mean wiser! It's been quite a life these past thirty eight years and a wonderful one for me. Single since "91" with three beautiful, college educated, well adjusted children who have been the core of my soul. I had a wonderful career as a Registered Nurse. Started out at Hershey Medical Center doing Open Heart Surgery in the late 80's which was the rush of my career. Decided to go into Administration as Assistant Director of Nursing for a Long Term Care Facility and became certified in Rehabilitation Nursing and set up programs to improve and maintain the highest standards that an individual could maintain. The program worked for the patients and you could see results but it didn't make any money so most of the programs I designed and implemented are no longer in existance. Sad but true. I became ill in 2000 with a benign brain tumor. Surgery and radiation for they couldn't remove all the tumor. It was a good time in my life as family and friends never left my side. Didn't have a boyfriend at the time. It was a good thing though for who would have wanted a bald woman with two black eyes who couldn't read or spell and walked with a limp. Needless to say, I recovered after three years and decided to go back to my first love, the OR and be a fish in the ocean and take care of one patient at a time. it was absolutely wonderful to be back at Hershey in the OR making new friends and receiving the self-satisfaction of knowing you w...Expand for more