CUTEST AFGHAN <3

Omg this is super-cute!! :D

Thank yoouuu! Purple always wins, right?? ;) <3

Awwwwwww hehehe she looks soooooo cute!!!

Thank you soooo much!!

Awesome costume and interesting house.

Hah, thank you! Our house is pretty interesting. It was built back in the 1800s, at least the part you are seeing. It's a huge great room that is open, it's where the den and living are (how we did it anyway). It used to be used as a concert hall. Yay random things.

That's cool that your house has that kind of history. My parents house used to be the mayors house in the 70s. More Marylin hugs are required also, your suit is so awesome.

LOL!! Haha I love that!! XD I am totally going to do that at FF! ;)

Thank you SO much for those incredibly kind words! You just made me smile more than you can imagine! I haven't started working yet, I just graduated from school in May and got my license in July. I'm trying to get into the local hospital near me... I'm very hopeful! But I do love helping people, I always have, and I was so happy when Nursing found me. It is a very rewarding feeling, I already have impacted so many people's lives during my rotations in school, I ca only imagine what the future will hold! The reward definitely outbalances the stress.

Thank you again, that really meant a lot to me. It is always touching when someone takes the time to see who the artist is behind the art/suit! <3

It means a lot to me that you can see my intelligence and determination just in the way I write. At times I take on a more relaxed lingo online but I still always find myself trying to use correct grammar, punctuation, etc... it just won't let me go! ;)

That is so crazy you found me through Dingo's page, she is super awesome! I haven't met her in person myself, by best friend Chival hung out with her at FC which is how I found her... but she is so great! I actually used to be a vet tech, which is what she is studying to do, so we found a common interest!

I would love to tell you more stories anytime! And I'd be curious to hear your's and how you ended up in something as challening as neurophysiology!

Part of the reason I found nursing was from being a vet tech. I was a tech for about a year and a half and I LOVED it, helping animals has always been my passion (I was going to school to be a tech).. it wasn't until after experiencing the job that I realized I wanted to do more than that. I am not belitting the field in any way, I just love the freedom Nursing gives you! You can pursue so many different fields and still be a Nurse, you know? Psych (my fav), Ortho, Neuro, Oncology (my least fav :( ) , Telemetry, etc... or you can go into research, doctor's offices, management... there are so many things!

That and I just have this gift to talk to people. I love making people feel better and if I can do that in more ways than one I feel even more accomplished! It's amazing the difference a NICE Nurse makes in a hospital stay. The mean ones can change the way you experience your illness forever.

Anyway, I ramble! Thank you so much for taking such an interest :3

And speaking of: I read in your profile that you are a researcher/instructor. In what field??

Oh WOW!!! That is absolutely incredible!! I take my hat off to you and salute you! If you can major in neurophysiology you must have a natural gift for understanding the sciences. Neurology is definitely the most challenging of the body systems, there is still so very little we know about the brain! I find it fascinating that you are studying the signaling pathways involved in stroke.. if we could learn to understand these pathways we could hopefully prevent/and or halt strokes early in their development... imagine the lives that could be saved!

And while I may be a Nurse and am the one with the patients the most, you are far from a background worker!! It is thanks to the research and information that you gain and pass on that I am able to assist my patients adequately!

Haha, i like calling us ScrubsFurs!! XD (I do love the show Scrubs, so maybe that makes me a bit partial lol) but it is a suiting name and I am constantly surprised at how many furs are in the health care field! There aren't too many of us, but ever since I got into Nursing and started looking around I've found there are far more than I thought!

I'm not sure if I asked you this already or not, but are you going to FurFright?? It'd be awesome to meet you someday!

I have always been fascinated with neurology! I absolutely love the science behind it, and the fact that we still know SO little about the human brain and how it works. I find the neuro units a bit daunting, as the patients you see in such units are so seriously ill. I haven't yet had any experience in a neuro unit, though I hopefully will when I start working at the hospital I'm trying to get into.

I would be interested in working in neurology, perhaps somewhere down the line... though my true interests lie in psychology. I have always loved psychology and always found an interest in understanding human behavior. I also find that many nurses and health care workers shy away from the psych field as it can be intimidating. It was very hard for lots of my classmates when we did our psych rotations - psych isn't like medical-surgical nursing... you don't see an immediate improvement. It's not like a knee replacement patient who you see improve INCREDIBLY over 2 days then send them home. You can't put an implementation into effect and see immediate results... it's hard to wrap one's head around. But I think that psychology plays such a HUGE roll in how illness effects us, that if we "fix" the mind we can in turn "fix" the body, to an extent. I know that curing someone of depression won't cure their cancer, but it will perhaps help them deal with it better and give them a better quality of life.

So in short - yes I do love neurology and will continue to research it and learn, but for now my interests are leaning to the other side of neuro, the psych side. They're all interconnected after all!

And to answer your question about what brought me into the furry fandom... I come to find upon looking back at myself in my childhood I was always a furry lol! I have pictures of me dressed as a dog from Halloween when I was 4... I have always loved animals and really I have to say it was Beast Wars (The Transformers series, did you watch it?) that really got me into drawing and making up characters.

I started drawing "furries" not realizing they were furries after watching Gargoyles... and seeing the episodes with the unicorn and the lion gargoyle and the panther etc... I was like ooo I like that I'm going to draw that. (and then again, Beast Wars robots were kind of like furries in a way). And one day my friend who was into Beast Wars with me linked me to Mayra/Huskie's art and I realized... HOLY SHIT there's a whole community of people who draw this stuff!!! And thus, I fell into the furry fandom.. I'd say that was around 1999/2000 or so.

As for fursuiting that's a much more recent thing! I NEVER thought I'd wear a fursuit! I used to laugh at some of the fursuits and was like NO I will never do that... that was until my best friend wore a friend of her's suit, enjoyed it, made a suit and made me put it on. That was hm... at FWA of 2009, so suiting is a recent thing for me! I love it! I want to smack my past self and say wtf, why didn't you get into this sooner?! Lol!!

Goodness this was a long reply, sorry for that again!! It does make me happy we can send such long replies to each other, it shows how interested we are in what the other has to say! I enjoy your comments so very much, thank you again for taking the time to get to know me.

I added you!! I am Jolyn Ferguson :3
Sorry for the short reply, I must run for now but I will catch up with you later! <3