So...miracles big and small happen everyday. Things were able to be worked out and a new life has started for me and my son here in Idaho. We arrived last Friday after 3 long days in the car. I wish I could say that the trip was uneventful but as it turns out our last day came with a little drama. We were 90% through nowheresville Wyoming when all my warning lights cut on and my engine started straining. Of course there's hardly anything in Wyoming and as it turns out we had already passed the closest town with a car repair service station. So on a prayer I turned around drove back to find the service station. Here is where the lesson was learned-don't take people's words for anything. Be your own judge. It was fearful for me to be in a place that I knew nothing about (only others assumptions), 2000 + miles away from the place I knew as home, hoping that someone would be kind to me and help me out. I found just that, no prejudiced people, no one dressed in white sheets, just a kind man running his own shop with no employees who fixed my tire in 10 minutes and wished me well. I wish I knew his name, but I'm thinking of sending him a nice card or something because of how he treated me.
Anyhow, we made it safely and have begun settling in to our new home. I started as a CNM today and spent the day getting to know everyone and shadowing one of the L&D nurses. Everyone is so supportive and excited to have midwives, and frankly its really refreshing. I've never been in a place so open to new possibilities and so willing to change to meet the needs of the community. You can't help but get swept up in their excitement and passion. I'm so looking forward to meeting everyone and getting things going.
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