I am honored to stand before you today as the proud first recipient of the T J Myrick Memorial Endowed Scholarship, and a new nursing graduate.
As I applied for the TJ Scholarship, I was posed with a question to answer in an essay. That question was “How did I plan to Pay it Forward”, and I knew exactly how I was going to answer it.
Since I was a little girl, I knew I wanted to be in the medical field. My mom told me stories of me going through entire Band-Aid boxes on my stuffed animals insisting that they were sick and need them. Then, when I was in the second grade I was diagnosed with petite-mal absence epileptic seizures. For those of you who don’t know, it’s a form of epilepsy characterized by starring spells when my brain would” shut down and restart” as it was explained to me. Many children grow out of this kind of epilepsy and I was one of these lucky children. However, between 2nd and 6th grade I visited the neurologist often for EEG’s, checkups, and frequent blood level monitoring and this is what sparked my love and passion for the human body.
Then in the 8th grade I moved in with my Dad. A Vietnam veteran who had spent a year, at the age of 18, in combat in Vietnam. Living with my father until the day I moved away to college, we developed a very close relationship and I got to see firsthand what PTSD is really like. 50 years later my Dad still suffers from night terrors, depression, and server anxiety. My education at a Jesuit high school and university has taught me many invaluable things, but possibly the most important is how to give back to others and it was my sophomore year at Regis University that I decided it was my passion and calling to work with our nation’s veterans. They have given so much to our country that I hope to give back to them and their families by working at the VA.
Under the TJ Myrick Memorial Scholarship I was honored to have been selected to participate in the VALOR emersion program, at the VA. I cared for our nation’s veteran while learning alongside some of the city’s best nurses and doctors. As a new graduate nurse I hope to “Pay it Forward” by serving those who have served our country and especially PSTD patients. I would not have been able to achieve that dream without the T J Myrick Memorial Endowed Scholarship.
Mr. and Mrs. Myrick you have made my future possible and I am eternally grateful to your support and have been so happy to have gotten to know you. I hope to continue to support the TJ Memorial Fund in any way that I can, and I am confident that with the wonderful staff at Regis University and the Loretto Heights School of Nursing they will continue to put forward some of the best prepared and altruistic nurses who will be on the forefront of new nursing techniques and technologies to heal our communities in whichever way they decide to “Pay it Forward!”
Thank you all for sharing this day with us.
From a grateful heart,
Melissa
As I applied for the TJ Scholarship, I was posed with a question to answer in an essay. That question was “How did I plan to Pay it Forward”, and I knew exactly how I was going to answer it.
Since I was a little girl, I knew I wanted to be in the medical field. My mom told me stories of me going through entire Band-Aid boxes on my stuffed animals insisting that they were sick and need them. Then, when I was in the second grade I was diagnosed with petite-mal absence epileptic seizures. For those of you who don’t know, it’s a form of epilepsy characterized by starring spells when my brain would” shut down and restart” as it was explained to me. Many children grow out of this kind of epilepsy and I was one of these lucky children. However, between 2nd and 6th grade I visited the neurologist often for EEG’s, checkups, and frequent blood level monitoring and this is what sparked my love and passion for the human body.
Then in the 8th grade I moved in with my Dad. A Vietnam veteran who had spent a year, at the age of 18, in combat in Vietnam. Living with my father until the day I moved away to college, we developed a very close relationship and I got to see firsthand what PTSD is really like. 50 years later my Dad still suffers from night terrors, depression, and server anxiety. My education at a Jesuit high school and university has taught me many invaluable things, but possibly the most important is how to give back to others and it was my sophomore year at Regis University that I decided it was my passion and calling to work with our nation’s veterans. They have given so much to our country that I hope to give back to them and their families by working at the VA.
Under the TJ Myrick Memorial Scholarship I was honored to have been selected to participate in the VALOR emersion program, at the VA. I cared for our nation’s veteran while learning alongside some of the city’s best nurses and doctors. As a new graduate nurse I hope to “Pay it Forward” by serving those who have served our country and especially PSTD patients. I would not have been able to achieve that dream without the T J Myrick Memorial Endowed Scholarship.
Mr. and Mrs. Myrick you have made my future possible and I am eternally grateful to your support and have been so happy to have gotten to know you. I hope to continue to support the TJ Memorial Fund in any way that I can, and I am confident that with the wonderful staff at Regis University and the Loretto Heights School of Nursing they will continue to put forward some of the best prepared and altruistic nurses who will be on the forefront of new nursing techniques and technologies to heal our communities in whichever way they decide to “Pay it Forward!”
Thank you all for sharing this day with us.
From a grateful heart,
Melissa
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