Tabitha Ely:  

Life After graduation I attended RSCC on scholarship majoring in Business. In 1990 I married Doug Abbott from Kingston & in 1992 we had our daughter Shelby who is now 15. We divorced in 1995. I'd been attending RSCC off & on finishing my degree in Business Management & prenursing in Spring of 1999. During this time I worked various jobs to support my daughter & myself while I completed school. While at RSCC I met Micah & we were engaged Fall 1997 after I graduated from Tennessee Technological Center with a practical nursing diploma. We married in October 1998. I've worked various places since then. I worked at Roane Medical Center as CNA for 94-97 & LPN 97-00 specializing in cardiac. I took a break from nursing & went to real estate school but never took the state test-maybe later. Later I went to work for a staffing agency-very strict standards-2000 to 2003. I was sent to different hospitals: Park West, Ft Sanders, Loudon, & MMC in OR. I worked Labor & Delivery at Parkwest the last year of my employment with the agency. This enabled me to figure out which Dr. to use when we discovered the surprise on the way Christmas Eve 2002. In fact we had her August 2003 at ParkWest & received wonderful care from the staff & my coworkers. I became a SAH mom & continued homeschooling my older daughter. My husband worked in Ohio for a little over a year & we joined him for a short time before moving back to Oliver Springs. On the way back from Ohio I had to listen to our then 1yo say "Mama,mama,mama" from top to bottom of the entire state of Kentucky before she passed out after crossing into TN. After a family emergency arose in 2005 we moved in with my MIL to enable us to care for 4 different houses & the animals that go with them. My husband checked on our house everyday after he left from work. He works at the K25 site. The family member has improved & is now living back at his house so we don't have quite as much to do as before but we still live next door so we can keep ...Expand for more