Katey – Journal 16

I have a sister in law. Her name is Katey Stafford. She is wonderful. I miss her a lot. She is actually my husband’s ex step sister. When my husband’s mom and dad divorced, his mother married a man named Kenny who had 2 kids around Bradley’s age. Cody and Katey, I have never met Cody. I met Katey at the hospital. We found out Brad’s mom had stage 4 pancreatic cancer and she came to the hospital to see her ex step mom. Katey lost her mom when she was 16 of breast cancer. Trish, My mother in law treated her like she was her daughter and Katey loved Trish like she was her mom. When I first met Katey I couldn’t help but look at her leg. It was metal. She lost her leg in a car wreck when she was 23. I had never seen someone with such awful circumstances in her life with such a great attitude. Her favorite quote is “dream big”. She doesn’t let the obstacles of her life keep her down. She graduated beauty school and then became an instructor at Academy of Hair Design and that is when she was in her car wreck. After her wreck the school was not very accommodating to her new disability so she quit working there. She decided that she would become a nurse. Now she is going into her last clinical semester at Cox College of Nursing. It is so cool to see her follow her dreams. One day she is going to be a wonderful role model to people everywhere. She already is a wonderful role model to me. I think she would do great in a career for prosthesis where she can tell all of her patients who are going through new dramatic life changing catastrophes, I did it and succeeded and you will too. She is encoutaging and positive and I love her very muchWord Count 3237.11.13