I'm still sorta training to be a medical transcriptionist. I've taken the last two years off to figure out what to do with the MS crap. I'm planning on going back to school this spring.

My dad is a CRNA (Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist) and his late brother was also a CRNA. His brother's widow is a Nurse Practitioner. One of dad's sisters was an x-ray tech till about a year ago (she retired because she's got RA). That aunt has a son who's a paramedic that is currently training to be a...argh...darn brainfroggies...respiratory therapist!! (he's also a volunteer firefighter) Dad's other sister works in the cafeteria of the hospital he works at (ok, she doesnt quite count, but she was going to be a nutritionist or something, but never got her degree or whatever she needed for that)

My uncle's youngest daughter is a nurse...I think she works in maternity. I cant remember if she was going to go back to school to be a CRNA like my dad and her dad.

and my grandfather (dad's dad) was an LPN (Licensed Practical Nurse) and was also an orderly. He got his LPN license because he learned over the years how to start IV's and other things that nurses do. To keep things legal, he got the nursing license. (he died in 61, so he was a nurse/orderly in the 40s and 50s) He was the guy that some of the doctors always called in when they were having certain types of problems with patients. He could always get the IV's started on the first try, and was considered one of the best nurses in the hospital that he worked at.

Grandpa actually made more money working as an orderly (he had more seniority as an orderly, he didnt become a nurse right away) So he kept the orderly title, but since he had the nursing license, he was allowed to do whatever the nurses could do.

Oh yeah, he also worked as a gandy dancer on the railroad before he met and married my grandmother. That's how he got to Omaha. He worked his way up here from Texas in the 30s laying railroad tracks.

I never got to meet my grandpa, but from the stories my dad tells me about him, I think he would have been one of the coolest people in the world. I feel cheated that he died before I was born. I wish I'd gotten to grow up with him around. (he'd be 101yrs old now...his birthday was Christmas day...amazing that my grandfather was born a century ago!)

I worked for an Anesthesiologist when my kid's were younger and boy, did I learn alot from her. That was a long time ago at a small hosp. and private office, where you didn't have to wear name badges, etc. and no one questioned who you were. I could go with her practically anywhere and I remember the pt's always being so afraid of the anesthesia. *heck, we still are* But, I need to say "I never went into the OR".

I have been an RN since dinosaurs roamed the earth!! [1974]
Found out I had passed my nursing boards the day before my 21st birthday and yes I did celebrate!!
Met my DH in Nursing School and worked while he went to Anesthesia School to become a CRNA [Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, like Erin's dad]
My oldest DS is a certified EMT-firefighter and now a policeman.
DD is a special education teacher
Youngest DS is a pre-med [Biology] major in collegdr with plans to go to medical school & become an Anesthesiologist.

No one else in my family, except for an Aunt, were in the medical field but for some reason becoming a nurse was all I ever wanted to be.

Sometime a little knowledge is dangerous. I just love when a medical professional is talking 'down' to me like I should be in my DD's class and then I let them know I am an RN.

I was a medical transcriptionist for 13 years before quitting due to MS. My mom was in her final year of nursing school when she got pregnant with me and quit. She would have made a wonderful nurse.