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 Health Care Hero
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Nov. 21st, 2008 @ 03:33 pm 
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I feel like Miss America. I just wish I could tell my mom. She always wanted a homecoming queen and I certainly never was THAT, but I think she'd be proud of me.
The Charleston Business Journal opens nominations for Healthcare Hero Awards each year. After the nominations come in and are judged, the three finalists in each category are invited to a banquet to recognize the winners. I didn't even know I had been nominated and got an invitation to the banquet. Here is a picture of our table. Dick, me, Tommy, and Marie Brown, whom I introduced as my sister, but who helped me learn to be a nurse. Also with us are Wynde and Scott.
As each category was announced, a little snippet was read about each finalist - the winner being announced last. And I won! Holy cow! I had to actually make an acceptance speech, which nearly did me in. I have no idea what I said, but I'm pretty sure I didn't describe Dick's sexual ability this time. I wasn't the only Roper St. Francis person to win - Scott Broome, the service line director for Cancer Services also won as well as a Roper cardiologist. Caroline, our pet therapy volunteer was a finalist, too.
Today, the lady who nominated me sent me her nomination form and it was beautifully written. She had asked imput from several of my co-workers (unbeknownst to me) and took quite a bit of it from this blog. It was really good...hell, I would have voted for me!
I am really quite honored by this. Dick, Tommy and Marie told me it was a good thing I won. They said they would have gotten up and complained loudly if I hadn't. Jerry Springer would have loved that! |
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