Heather Letendre:  

Life After high school, I went to Pace University in New York for one year and then transferred to Mount Ida College both for Equestrian Science…yes, I really did want to teach horseback riding and earned an Associate’s degree, and then right away a Bachelor’s of Liberal Arts there…just in case while teaching summers and weekends. After the Bachelor’s to the dismay of my professors, as I graduated top in my class, I really did go and teach horseback riding full time at a beautiful place in North Andover with a nice indoor ring called RS sport horse at the time. I loved it except for the money and the abuse of my time…and eventually when the owners starting bouncing my paychecks and expecting more and more work for free I realized this wasn’t the life for me. Next, I did some secretarial and switchboard “fun” at Hillhaven and PME commuting back to Lexington until I discovered the field of Occupational Therapy placing therapists for PME and met my later to be husband. I decided to go back to school again and earned a Master’s in Occupational Therapy from Boston University commuting from a few different places until finally ending up where we live now in our home in Shrewsbury, MA. Unfortunately, during this time my father died in a motorcycle accident at the age of 47. I worked as an OT for about 3 years and ended up managing the entire northern region of nursing homes for my company at the time, when another tragedy struck…I went numb from the waist down. Being in health care I cared for everyone but myself and was sure it was ju...Expand for more