Simple Beginnings

First, I would like to introduce myself. I am Teri Lynn, and I started this adventure on my thirty-seventh birthday. It is now 11 years later, and time stops for no man or woman including me. I am going to be 48 but I’ll only admit to 21 with experience and I’ll completely ignore the fact that my kids are both older than that. I have been blessed with great kids. My daughter Morgan is almost 22 and just finished her junior year at Norwich University studying Architecture and my son Garrett is almost 28 and working hard as an Auto Parts Store Manager. Not only are they both hard working but they are genuinely good humans. They are everything any mother would hope for her children to grow up to be. Yes, I am a very proud Mother.
Professionally I am a scientist, a Clinical Laboratory Scientist to be exact and I have been for 28 years. I have had a remarkably interesting career and it is still different every day, even 28 years lat-er. (Wow! That is a long time, but if the truth be told it went amazingly fast.) I work for Albany Medi-cal Center Hospital and I will remain here at my hospital until I retire. My “why?” you ask- well Al-bany Medical Center found me when I was fifteen years old and taught me one of the most im-portant skills that I have and that was how to administer Factor VIII to my father at home. (This, by the way, was answered prayer for me.) They helped me to become a better caretaker for my father and for that I will always be grateful. I want to extend my gratitude to them by helping any way that I can to ensure that they will continue to reach out into the community to other individuals like me with those life-saving skills.
When I started this book, I was just beginning to reflect back on my life and I was in such a differ-ent place then. It was 4 years after Dad had passed away and I was just beginning to get my feet on the ground and figure out who Teri Lynn was. Truthfully, I hadn’t had anytime to really think about that question or even what I liked or wanted for myself much before then. I was always busy with the next medical crisis with Dad or raising my kids. Now I have the time to reflect and share with you some of the most important life lessons, faith and love, through the story of me and my Dad.