* AFTER ESTABLISHING HERSELF in her career as a perioperative nurse and ensuring her grown children were settled, this author pursued her dream of working abroad as a nurse.
* SHE CHOSE TO work in Pakistan, which is where her father was born.
* HER EXPERIENCES THERE gave her a new appreciation for the help that perioperative nurses can offer to the citizens of developing countries. AORN J 78 (July 2003) 108-115.
Growing up in Tanzania and Kenya, I often wondered about my ancestors, ...