Louise Ashburn:  

I remember having friends from every group in school, and never enough time to have fun. After high school I married Chris Clark, moved around (Texas, CA, Seattle, San Diego), went to school, raised a son and a foster daughter, kept on going to school, worked a lot, had some fun, kicked up my heels a little. I have traveled to 38 of the 50 states (and counting), and been to Europe several times, sometimes with friends, sometimes with a ladies' group. I was divorced in 2001 and moved to TN, where in 2005 I was remarried to a wonderful big old TN bubba. That's a wedding photo on my profile, and the young man with us is my son Bryan, of whom I am exceptionally proud. Professionally I have been a radiation therapist, helping people fight cancer. I started doing this in 1991. I am also a medical coder which I used as the auditor for our department's charts. I became the Radiation Oncology Specialist in Revenue Integrity for the Tri-Star Division of HCA, then worked for Coding Strategies, Inc. for a year, and now I am a coding manager at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center financial office, with radiation oncology and cardiology coders working with me. I have an awesome boss and hopefully will stay with Vanderbilt until it's time to retire. I am still looking for a Masters program to help me decide what I want to be if and when I ever grow up! I still read too much, love to laugh and have friends of all kinds, shapes, sizes, races, and ages. I try to fight prejudice and ignorance wherever I find it and help people see ways in which the...Expand for more