Jacquelyn Sankey:  

My story...um, gee that will be a short one!! After graduation from Owasso, I went to Claremore JC for a year then started working at St. Francis in Tulsa as a unit secretary. I was dating Mark Royster at the time, and after he graduated from CJC, he wanted to move to Stillwater (Go Pokes!!) to finish his degree in accounting. So we move to Stillwater, Mark lived with my brother, Roger, and Mark Bledsoe. I lived with Cindy Lundsford (Sequoyah High Grad. from Claremore) for 2 years until she and Billy Spears got married. I then moved in with a crazy chick from Lincoln, Nebraska, who had more money than God...I am, at this point, working at Stillwater Med Center as a phlebotomist (drawing blood), going to school at OSU (Go Pokes!!), applied to OU (BOO Sooners) to their nursing program, got accepted, but decided to stay in Stillwater and go to LPN school (big mistake, should've gone on to OU even though I HATE OU, but at least I would have been done!!). Mark and I, had unfortunately broken up (entirely my fault), so I go on to LPN school. I met my husband, after dating a couple of TOADS), and got married 1 week before I graduated from LPN school. We moved to Edmond, started working at Edmond Med. Center in ICU. Worked in the unit for 10 years, while I had 2 kids, and went back to school to get my Nursing degree. Richard and I went back at the same time, graduated together, sat for boards together, and passed boards together...So now I'm a RN, and I transfer to the ER at Edmond....Now Richard and I are working together!!! Different shifts though, so one of us was always with the kids (fortunately they never spent a single day in day care!). I was the Lead Charge Nurse on Nights in the ER for 8.5 years. During this time, the OKC bombing occurred...I took care of quite a few of the victims, and I can honestly say that was one of the most difficult days in my career...How does one make sense out of something so senseless....Evidently, it affected me more than I knew at the time...One month to the day after the bombing, I was diagnosed with MS. Not knowing what course the MS was going to play in my life, I decided to go back to school...So I go to UCO, get my bachelor's and then my master's in Forensic Nursing...Unfortunately in Oklahoma, there aren't any jobs for Forensic nurses, and the ones that are available don't pay even close to what I am making now...So why not move out of Ok??? My mom was diagnosed with colon cancer 5 years ago, although to look at her you would never know anything was wrong, the cancer has spread to her liver, stomach, and lymph glands. She is st...Expand for more