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Friends,
Meg Chandler has spent her life taking care of people, first as an EMT, then as a paramedic, then a nurse before coming back to EMS. Now, she needs our help. Meg was diagnosed with Cancer two years ago and fought a tough fight. Last week we learned that her cancer metastasized to her brain and her family has made the decision to stop fighting. For those of you that know Meg, you know that her daughter Sarah is her life.
Your contribution to this fund will help to ensure that Meg’s daughter will have the opportunity to pursue her academic goals and her career ambitions.
Meg started her EMS career as a volunteer after college. Having gotten the EMS bug, she decided to make EMS her career. In 1999 she started working in East Orange as an EMT where she met her husband. She completed her paramedic training at Union County College and John F. Kennedy Medical Center in Edison, NJ in 2001. Wanting to do more to help her patients, Meg went back to nursing school and received her nursing license in 2005.
One day Meg awoke with a desire to serve not just her community, but her country. She tried to join the United States Air Force Reserve only to learn that despite her having a bachelor’s degree and a nursing license the Air Force would not allow her to commission as a nurse with out a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree. Naturally she wouldn’t accept that, so she went back to school and received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree and commissioned into the Air Force Reserve as a second lieutenant in 2008.
While working as a nurse in the Open-Heart ICU Meg again had the desire to do more. She again went back to school for a Master of Science in Nursing degree and became a nurse practitioner in 2013. Shortly thereafter Sarah was born, and priorities changed. When Meg was presented with an opportunity to come back into EMS as the nurse manager for the nurses on the department’s transfer team, she jumped at it. She had spent the last fifteen years of her life taking care of patients, now she would have the opportunity to take care of the people who were taking care of the patients.
This is our opportunity to take care of a special person who has dedicated her life to taking care of others.
Meg Chandler has spent her life taking care of people, first as an EMT, then as a paramedic, then a nurse before coming back to EMS. Now, she needs our help. Meg was diagnosed with Cancer two years ago and fought a tough fight. Last week we learned that her cancer metastasized to her brain and her family has made the decision to stop fighting. For those of you that know Meg, you know that her daughter Sarah is her life.
Your contribution to this fund will help to ensure that Meg’s daughter will have the opportunity to pursue her academic goals and her career ambitions.
Meg started her EMS career as a volunteer after college. Having gotten the EMS bug, she decided to make EMS her career. In 1999 she started working in East Orange as an EMT where she met her husband. She completed her paramedic training at Union County College and John F. Kennedy Medical Center in Edison, NJ in 2001. Wanting to do more to help her patients, Meg went back to nursing school and received her nursing license in 2005.
One day Meg awoke with a desire to serve not just her community, but her country. She tried to join the United States Air Force Reserve only to learn that despite her having a bachelor’s degree and a nursing license the Air Force would not allow her to commission as a nurse with out a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree. Naturally she wouldn’t accept that, so she went back to school and received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree and commissioned into the Air Force Reserve as a second lieutenant in 2008.
While working as a nurse in the Open-Heart ICU Meg again had the desire to do more. She again went back to school for a Master of Science in Nursing degree and became a nurse practitioner in 2013. Shortly thereafter Sarah was born, and priorities changed. When Meg was presented with an opportunity to come back into EMS as the nurse manager for the nurses on the department’s transfer team, she jumped at it. She had spent the last fifteen years of her life taking care of patients, now she would have the opportunity to take care of the people who were taking care of the patients.
This is our opportunity to take care of a special person who has dedicated her life to taking care of others.
Organizer and beneficiary
Neil Thorn
Organizer
Bridgewater, NJ
David Stangreciak
Beneficiary
