Voices that Inspire

What inspires you from WFSU Public Media? Here's this week's Voices That Inspire. My name is Kathy Brooks. I am the Service Line Administrator for oncology for telehacimemorial health care. I'm a nurse. I went to FSU nursing school and started my career here at TMH as a labor and delivery nurse and quickly learned that I really liked leadership and I really liked administration sort of trying to remove barriers for the nurses and the physicians to actually care for the patients. Then went and ran telehacial patient surgery center for the orthopedic surgeons for about 10 years. And during that time, that's when I was diagnosed with my breast cancer. So I was diagnosed with my breast cancer. I was 32 when I was diagnosed. I was about 18 weeks pregnant. You just go into fighting mode. You just go into like, I gotta take this one day at a time. I have to be very grateful and thankful that I have every day beyond today. And it changes your whole perspective on life. There's life and death and anything else really can be sorted through. And that's, I think one of the lessons I've taught my kids too is as long as we still have each other and as long as we're still here on this earth, we'll figure the rest of it out. It's very hard to have hope when you are receiving a diagnosis of cancer and you have to have hope. The commitment on the part of the people who all work here, they inspire me. They inspire me to keep going. And when I'm like, ugh, I've hit this barrier and I don't know how to overcome this. I'll pull the team together and we come up with solutions for our patients every day. My name is Kathy Brooks and I am the administrator for oncology at Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare. You're listening to voices that inspire.