Christina. Weaver. (Sutton):  

October the 18th, 1973. Our 50th anniversary since our 1st 😍😘kiss. We spent 3 and 1/2 hours talking and letting each other know we both had held a caring for each other t1hat seemed to come so quickly but, fearfully that we might screw up a great friendship. Well for my part of this little adventure, 💘 I had too see if the feelings I had were leading anywhere with a guy I had fell for! 😏 I. After 4 years Manual, I cont. to save up for my schooling toY a Nurse. This is what I always wanted to do since I was 3 yrs. old. Pretty wild #to know what you wanted to be that young. I did not have a lot of encouragement at home due# to pay for it all up front and pay my own car and health insurance up front before I could be allowed to drive. All by being 18. 1/2 yrs. old. I went on to be a Nurse starting 1976, I graduated in 1977 and had my license by the end of that year. I started in med./surg. at first and took over Basic Life Support teaching and development of Advanced Life Suppport at The old ( now a Bible college), University Heights Hosp. on Carson Ave. I increased the amount of instructor's for the Life Support Courses and I became an Instructor Trainer and took on the scheduling of classes and manikin repair/ordering parts. We moved and became Community Hospital South. Also took on departing instructor's job of Chairperson of both Med/Surg. and Critical Care Units Policy and Procedures for Nurses . Both major areas required. a lot of meetings with staff representatives from all units to review/re-write and organize all to current (1987) at the time for hospitals were reviewed every few years to make sure all instructional booklets for staff /nurses are current by Joint Commission for Acreditdation. I also was very humbled and pleasantly surprised to be asked to come work in. the newly expanded/modernized Intensive/Cardiac Care Unit. by the new supervisor. I worked Intensive/Cardiac Care for 27 of the 30 years I worked at Community South, Indiana University Hospital (Loved working with Heart Transplant patients ). I even had 2 of my patients request I photograph their whole procedure. I was known for doing photographs for Indiana, District 15 AMA motorcycling. Thus, one of my patients got his heart after I had worked a double shift. (no sleep for me for 36 hour straight) The pics turned out great!! As I know many of you, especially my Glee Club friends and Carol Hosford who had to put up with me during our work time for Counselor, Hendricks, Yes I was so in ❤️ love with a guy from Southport H.S., that unfortunately my parents hated him because he had and rode a motorcycle and on our first date, we were about an hour late getting home due we had never really had time at work ( we met at a Nursing Home where he was in maintenance and I worked in the dietary dept.,did Nursing Aide work , even worked as a housekeeper if needed..) Remember before you ask (why so many different jobs)? My parents were not believin' in my after H.S. dream of being a nurse. But there was no such thing as being grounded for a crime of forgetting to check the clock for a couple of weeks. My parents believed in straight- up That's It ! ! I was made to quit my job, and immediately stop seeing him. Nothing warranted that . We were on a "party-line" telephone if any of you remember that, and my mother even had other members tell her if I made any call! For some reason, it seemed to be a new Sport to tear the only pay phone. the school had, up! ! Either the coin holder had been tore open (I get you need money, but.?) But the worse was when I really needed to make call to Ti m (we were trying to see each other "undergr.ound" ) the handpiece to the phone was ripped off the line ! We tried to desperately keep in touch by notes passed back and forth between him at work, and me at school. (Thanks to Pam who went to Manual and still worked at the Nursing Home, through 1974). My mom got desperate by making go to work with her after school and called school to tell them to call her immediately if I "cut" school any. Please be kinder to teenagers. Tim and I were broke up over her mentally tearing me apart to the point I was not keeping my grades up and almost flunked 2nd semester of Junior year. I even freaked out over constant threats to call his parents to "force" us from writing. each other. Somehow I wrote one note he said was a "breakup" note that was with others that were last he received. I waited patiently for return noes not knowing about ("breakup note I either starting and question now if happened when I was really freaking out or if my mother "finished" before they were sent) . I had to always hide them in my coat or in. schoolbooks. ) I assumed wrongly, that he was just tired. of all mom's drama and dropped me. I would not blame him and our "mail person" would say he was" fine" (not sick or acting funny at work upon asking her)(If I had told her why I would suddenly "breakup"). We ended up apart for 9 mos. I sent him a letter or X-mas card with my Senior pic in it just to say hi. Hoped he was doing well. That was it. We are still together. Married 41 years (2023) and a couple almost 50 years. Be consistent in rules but talk and find. compassion and at least wait till they really do something that warrants the "forever" punishment with your teenagers. I was so afraid mine would make an even worse move toward his parents and threaten them. to keep their boy away from daughter. We ended up having no children unfortunately but we did end up trying to help kids of others who had questions in life that they were not sure they could ask their parents about. Animals that were lose in the world. Had males & females "fixed" and given shots, flea & tick meds . Kept sheltered & warm, Dogs, cats & even a Dutch rabbit that I felt probably 😅 was an Easter gift that a child was tired of, or bitten as Dutch are not exactly a friendly breed. . Motorcycles were Tim's life at the time but we really had a bond that 11P#! ...Expand for more