Carolyn Marthin:  

Since leaving high school I have married, traveled, had two beautiful daughters who are now 21 (Lauren) and 18 (Heather). Early in my life I worked in dentistry and once I retired my license I was a stay at home mother. After my divorce, I went to nursing school and found my niche'. My primary area was cardiac... I found that I enjoyed fixing broken hearts. Nursing offered a challenging, rewarding and flexible work experience that allowed me to spend a lot of time with my girls. After three years I grew tired of floor nursing and the cardiac stepdown unit was more like an extended intensive care unit... It was stressful, long hours and many nights 8 patients, which made it harder if I were charge nurse with 8 patients. So, I moved to the intensive critical care unit and worked Surgical Intensive care (open heart recovery) and Medical Intensive care ( a bit of everything) and sometimes I floated to the ER and other specialty floors; i.e. Cancer and Medical/Surgical. The latter two were my least favorite. In 1999 my father fell gravely ill with end stage lung disease and passed away in May of that year. It was hard on all of us, but especially on mother and my girls. Mother became ill with her heart in September of that year and there was much change. In April of 2000 I went to work for Unum Provident as a RN Clinical Consultant Case Manager and I have been there since. This has been an awesome career change for me and one that I have been very successful in. I work closely with treatment providers all across the nation and evaluate not only disabilities, but functional abilities that will afford those who have lost much of their previ...Expand for more