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My3boyz
March 28, 2007

Enjoying The Process

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This was my HOF entry about my passion. Aside from my obvious passion to be a mommy, I absolutely LOVE my career. I am only doing it a few hours a week right now but I still LOVE it after almost 8 years!! I consider myself lucky to be HAPPY to go to work. TFL!

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I LOVE my job. Not in the normal sense of the word, but in the “Can't wait to get there, don't want to leave, can't get enough” sense of the word. I am an ultrasound technologist. I had been an X-ray technologist for 8 years and was becoming very bored with my field. I had tried CT scan, MRI, mammography, DEXA scanning… I was just burned out. Then, a training opportunity for an ultrasound tech position arose. I NEVER thought I would be going back to school but there I was loving every minute of it! I had finally found my niche.
I was hooked! I caught on quickly and I was GOOD at it… I couldn't stop learning about it. And I slowly started to see WHY I loved it so much. I was being part of the actual process of diagnosing! I wasn't just asking people to hold their breath for a chest x-ray… I was finding out WHY they needed one. I was actually helping to find the answers for people. I don't think there is anything more rewarding than that. And to find out that my field had so many different facets to it was amazing to me.
A lot of people think that ultrasound just concerns obstetrics and babies, but it encompasses so much more. We look for abnormalities in all areas of the body. We search for blood clots, gallstones, narrowing of arteries, masses, cysts; it is a never-ending list. But we have the greatest technology in the world to help us find these things, allowing us to be preventative and proactive towards fighting diseases. My job can be sometimes sad when finding cancer or malignant tumors, yet even then I feel as though I am helping people. For the most part, it is a fun and rewarding field. We get to see the body heal and repair itself, or a new life growing… or a circulatory system repair itself and make new vessels. We watch a transplanted kidney function or arterial grafts work so that our patients get to walk another 20 years…Let's face it, the human body is absolutely amazing… miraculous…. But to be able to scan the organs, watch them function on-screen… watch the blood flow, watch the valves work…. I mean… that is just AWESOME!! It still gets me every time. I simply ENJOY the process of ultrasound. I enjoy my patients, teaching students and thriving on the knowledge that my field brings me. I can't picture a life without it, really.
When I decided to make the move to stay at home with my children, I was without my profession for a few months. I quickly understood that I was a mother first, but my heart still needed the stimulation of my career; one that I worked very hard to achieve. So now, a couple of nights a week, I get to go to work to be an ultrasound technologist. I get to be a part of the adult world for a while and help people find answers to their health issues. That has always been very important to me. I take pleasure in showing parents the gender of their unborn child or showing them the baby's heartbeat. I get excited with them and it is a wonderful feeling to find satisfaction in their happiness.


I am proud of what I do and count myself fortunate for finding a career I can be successful at and, more importantly, passionate about. I am surrounded by caring people that enjoy their occupation and taking care of our patients. I think of all the
people that struggle with finding contentment in their place of work. I often worry about my own boys choosing a career that may not make them happy. I can only hope that they will find as fulfilling and as satisfying a career as I have found. I am SO fortunate to be in such a fascinating field. One that is rewarding, gratifying and enjoyable. I hope to always be an outstanding technologist and I pray that I will never lose the sense of enjoyment that I get from the whole process.


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