Chelsea Pirie

Today is a very special day, it’s the day that a dream came true for me. When I first began to dream this dream, I was a very young girl and ICHS was not part of the dream, there were no details to the dream yet, just the big picture, the longing for the end result with no real thought of process and work required to bring the dream to life. But as I grew older and moved further down the path of bringing my dream to life I found that not all people or places were supportive or encouraging to me and my dream. They tried to tell me I wasn’t good enough, for various reasons, to have my dream come true. They told me I hadn’t worked hard enough, that I hadn’t tried hard enough, and that I didn’t care enough. They had facts and figures and statistics and quotas but no vision. No vision of who I was or who I was to become.

Then I found ICHS.

ICHS saw who I was, they knew some how who I was to become, and they accepted me and made me one of their own. ICHS didn’t embrace facts and figures and statistics and quotas as a means to explain why they couldn’t help me move down the pathway towards my dream, instead they embraced me and helped me realize all the ways and reasons those others were wrong. And their help, teaching, guidance and acceptance was what I needed to reach my goal and achieve my dream. For the dream I dreamt from the time of my youth was to one day become a Registered Nurse, and today I learned that with their help, that dream has come true.

I could not have done this without ICHS and their program when others had turned me away and said I wasn’t good enough. I am thankful for all they have done for me and for so many others and know that they will forever be in my heart and mind as I continue down this path, for I realize that they have not helped me reach the end of this path, but only the beginning.

Thank you,

Chelsea Pirie, RN