Lovingly Remembering with Gratitude

About the Book

A California RN State Retiree in her golden years in the Golden State From the Philippines, came to the United States on the Foreign Exchange Student Nurse Exchange Program in 1966 in Houston, Texas. Six months before the two years tenure of the exchange program, applied and took the State of California Board of Registered Nursing board exam to have obtained her RN license in 1969. She worked as staff RN in several nursing departments to vary and broaden her experiences on the job, worked longest in the critical care nursing units years before she went into mental health nursing in Southern California’s Department of Forensic Mental Health at Patton State Hospital in more than twenty years to her retirement in September 2008. Most grateful as incredibly blessed in God’s love legacy, lived and loved her job and made her work on her most incredible journey to a better life among all others in the professional nursing career of varied job opportunities in most God- blessed great America- the land of opportunity for all giving back and making a difference. Nursing, a caring and most fulfilling career that gives back.

About the Author

Born poor in the barrio of Angin, Naguilian, La Union, Philippines the fifth of the six living children, raised by widowed mother before she was three years old. Meek, quiet girl, matured before her time as she took care of home chores including caregiver of her blind grandmother with her baby sister because she cannot be afforded to go to high school; anyway, she was still young as she was accelerated twice, finished elementary grades in four years.

The town of Naguilian, La Union is nearest to the City of Baguio which is the summer capital of the Philippines. She worked for her board and lodging in her high school in Baguio City at her wealthy relative’s household as a housemaid when not in school. After high school as she waited for promise support to take a short college course she full time then at in Manil she worked as a laundry maid for a wealthy Chinese family of sixteen and a nanny later.

With providential support she made it happen to have graduated from the school of Nursing with ambition perseverance, and strong determination of working hard. Becoming a registered nurse made her go into her most remarkable life journey to a better life in most God – blessed America with loved ones and relatives.