Neva Cooper:  

Life I left Amherst & Amherst High to live in the Boston area with my dad. I worked at a few different jobs, construction, sold maternity clothes, dog walker, waitressed & ran a mexican food cart in greater Boston. I realized that I needed to finish high school so I did, it only took a couple of months. Then I got a job in a large teaching hospital, I worked for many years as a unit secretary in a very busy intensive care unit learning alot of medical stuff and realizing that working in a hospital caring for people is what I wanted to do. I switched jobs & became the scheduler for the operating room. During this time I met my firt husband, we ended up moving away from Boston buying a house on the south shore. I then decided to go to nursing school, after graduating we got married & I started working as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital south of boston. I ended...Expand for more