Brown hair, brown with green eyes
Her story-
My father and mother were both professionals and though they were very busy they tried to instill in my brother and I a feeling that since we were brought up so well that we should give back to the less fortunate. Like the saying in the bible that says God expects more from people who are given more.
My mother and father died my first year in Med school. They were coming to visit me and their plane crashed. I took it hard and slipped into a bit of a depression. Then I met Mitch, my Husband of 16 years now. He was in the same school as I was. Just a year ahead of me. We fell in love. We were married the year I graduated.
I always knew that I didn’t want to work in a big practice, in a huge hospital where I was just another number on their staff list. I needed to do something that I knew would help people. I wanted to work with young people to. I think it was because I was just out of med school. I took my residency at a crisis center. I did exams on rape victims, battered women, and any other of the wide range of the innocent victims of violence. Though it was sometimes hard I realized that that was what I wanted to do with my life.
When I got pregnant with my daughter, Kayla, I left the practice at the center for a while. I went back when she was 3. Mitch did about the same thing as I did back there. He worked at another govrnment founded clinic.
Last year we were looking for new jobs. The patients at the clinics were getting to be to much for me and the neighbor hood was getting worse. I feared for my safety and the safety of my family. I went looking for a job that would fit my criteria and Horizon seamed to be the place.
I’ve seen a lot, so the things I see with the teens at Horizon are nothing new to me. But it’s not like I’ve built immunity to it. I’ve seen teens come in here with such evidence of abuse that it’s terrifying and yet they still deny it. It hurts me. I take care of the girls and every time I see a new face come into my office I think to myself “that could be my daughter, that could be Kyleigh” but I do what I have to do to make the lives of the people I take care of better.
What she hopes to accomplish at Horizon
I want to help teens and people who have been hurt. I could never be a councelor because I know I’m not emotionally strong enough. I can heal bodies but I can’t heal souls. I need to do something that I know what it’s like. I don’t know what it’s like to be abused so how can I help counsel them. But I know what to do in side a doctors office and I know I’m good at it.
She’s been at Horizon for a year
Brown hair brown eyes
His story
I grew up with a single mother. My father left her after my younger brother was born. She did the best she could to raise us alone at a time when women that strong were thought lowly of. She remarried when I was 17 to a nice guy that I’m happy to be related to.
I struggled paying for college and medical school myself. After all that hard worked I reeped the rewards after I graduated. My 2nd year of med school I met Robin, my soul mate. The love of my life. She was going through a low time in her life, her parents had just died, and both at the same time making the matter even worse. I tried to help her with it and did.
When I graduated I went to work in a government funded clinic for low income families and a over flow place for all victims of violence. If the hospitols couldn’t take you and you needed to be checked on so the cops could file reports, you were sent to us. It’s a rewarding job in a way. You know that you’re helping peopleand usually helping them to be safe. But to see the faces and bodies of the innocent and to hear the horrible stories of their past It’s hard.
When my daughter Kayla was born I vowed to be the father that I never had until I was in my teens. She is one of the reasons why Robin and I moved to practice at Horizon. Our neighbor hood and the area of our, my wife and I, offices were becoming very unsafe. We decided to move.
Now I’m at Horizon. It’s great. My wife and I get to work together. My daughter gets an education and friends of different back rounds. We get a home right next to campus. And we know that here we are always helping teens. I take care of the medical needs of the guys here.
What he hopes to accomplish-
I want to help the people that come into the doors of my office. I need to know that I’m helping the people I take care of. And here I can do that. And to know that my daughter is getting a good education here is always good.
He’s been at Horizon for 1 year.