I Had a Dream

Amy had dreamt all of her childhood about becoming a doctor. She nursed injured animals back to health and followed the town medical doctor on his house calls. When she approached her parents she was told that the boys needed to go to college and there was not enough money for the girls to attend college. Her mother suggested she attend nursing school. When all of her alternatives for college were exhausted, Amy applied for nursing school. Not realizing at the time that she was about to head down a career path that would lead her to become a nurse practitioner. The story encompasses Amy's life in nursing and medicine from the time she was sixteen years old until she retired at the age of sixty-two.