Another Shadow

Beginning this year, Alison has been in the “Healthcare Career Academy”. This is essentially a grouping of classes and electives that focus in the healthcare field, which is the direction she thinks she wants to go in when she gets to college. The unfortunate thing is that you need to decide you want to be in these academies right after freshman year. Sarah didn’t do that and by the time she realized she wanted to do something in the healthcare field, it was too late. So now Alison is pretty much taking some classes that are identical to what Sarah is taking in college, specifically, “Careers in Healthcare”. Part of this class is setting up a job shadow, which Sarah just did. Now Alison has to do the same thing. Unfortunately, the hospitals require kids who do job shadows to be at least 16 years old, and Ali is only 15. So she is having a little bit of trouble tracking something down. We thought she could shadow our dentist, since Kris has been going to him since before she was Alison’s age, and I have been seeing him for the last 25 years. But she wants nothing to do with sticking her fingers in people’s mouths (apparently the tongue depressor thing doesn’t bother her though). It appears that she does have something lined up with a private, PT practice though. She still needs to nail down the specifics, but it looks like they’ll let her do it even though she is under 16. I can’t wait to hear how this will end up going.