In the midst of the chaos, Jed, her former collaborator, arrives and offers her a job writing a new show with him in New York. Four months later, Kay is still struggling with her domestic chores when a windstorm hits, threatening to blow away the interior of her house. When Chris then returns with a dead cougar, asking that Kay cook dinner for his friends, Kay collapses in tears. Kay's uncomplaining perseverance soon wins the children over, but despite their support, Kay is overwhelmed by the day's work and fires their Indian cook for trying on her clothes. The children, who are wary of their new stepmother, inform Kay about all the ranch chores and then watch in horror as she dutifully but ineptly tries to accomplish them. At five, Kay is again stirred from her sleep by Nan and Tina. Later, after only two hours of sleep, Kay and Chris are reawakened by Chris's chatty friends, who insist that the groom join them on a cougar hunt. An inexperienced dancer, Mears slips and falls into a piece of pie and roars out of the party, humiliated. Jean welcomes Kay without jealousy, however, and the shivaree is a great success until Kay cajoles Mears into dancing with her. Organizing the shivaree is Jean Morrow, a widowed rancher who, until Kay, was Chris's romantic interest. No sooner does the exhausted couple settle in for the night, than they are dragged out of bed by boisterous well-wishers, anxious for a shivaree.
They also encounter their more prosperous but cantankerous neighbor Mears, who controls Chris's water rights. The newlyweds then drive across country to Chris's Wyoming ranch, the Cougar Rock, where they are greeted by Chris's young daughters, Nan and Tina. Friend and fellow rodeo rider Orvie pushes the reluctant Chris, who is a widower, into Kay's arms, and after a whirlwind romance, the two are married. – Beverly Sumwalt, MA, DLM, CLS, MT(ASCP) is an ASCP Global Outreach Volunteer Consultant.When cowboy Chris Heyward sees sophisticated Broadway songwriter Kay Kingsley during a benefit rodeo in New York City, he is immediately attracted to her. And lo and behold, even after all these years, there’s still never a dull moment. Now, looking back, experiences like that have gifted me with knowledge and the experience to share in dialogue with colleagues and perhaps inspire new students in our field both at home and internationally. Encountering a B positive bleeder in surgery while on the night shift or working solo on Christmas Day with only Shigella group D cultures to keep me company were a few of those times I wasn’t so sure I had made a good decision. In retrospect, what an excellent choice I made all those years ago. These included: sitting in on a panel discussion around the Medical Laboratory Technician (MLT) training programs exchanging thoughts and challenges faced by couriers who serve very remote Native American communities in our country shared and compared notes on world primary care clinics and the need for laboratory services in both western Africa and eastern China brain-storming ideas and initial plans for merging several lab operations into an efficient and effective new model and of course, the next exciting adventure for me with ASCP Global Outreach coming up later this summer in Central Asia! These conversations with various experts and leaders in our field covered staffing, recruiting and training, operations, remote challenges, international services, and the vision for the future of laboratory medicine nationally and globally-just about everything from the ground up and every facet from the top down in laboratory medicine was in there somewhere!Īs I reflect on the past month or two, I’m reminded that there has never been a dull moment in my laboratory career.
Just this past month I have had the privilege to be part of multiple unique conversations that involved laboratory services and career paths. So once in a while it’s good to have interesting conversations and experiences that remind us that labs add value in so many areas. We are often so focused on our day-to-day operations, the tests we’re performing, the myriad of measures we use to assure safety and quality that we tend to fit rather nicely inside the “black box” just by doing what we do every day. Every now and then it’s good to be reminded that laboratories are all very dynamic and play an active role in the delivery of healthcare worldwide.
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