Sheralee’s story of resilience
Grandmother chases her childhood dream
IT’S NEVER easy to change your life, but that’s exactly what Sheralee Storey has done.
Mrs Storey is a grandmother of seven from Dalby who, after a 20 year career in retail, decided to chase her childhood dream.
All she had ever wanted to do was help people through nursing, but the timing never worked out.
“Marriage and kids, then bills to deal with. Life just got in the way,” Mrs Storey said.
But a few years ago, Mrs Storey enrolled in the University of Southern Queensland’s Bachelor of Nursing.
She’ll join about 600 graduands at the Spring USQ Toowoomba Graduation Ceremonies at the Empire Theatre today.
Mrs Storey has a passion for rural medicine and during her studies worked in Cunnamulla, developing care plans with local community members.
“It was such a rewarding experience. I helped diagnose people with diabetes and kidney disease,” she said.
She is now continuing to make a difference in regional healthcare, employed full-time at Western Downs General Practice.
The nursing graduand said the career switch was intimidating but had changed her life for the better.
“You are never too old to study and certainly never too old to do what you want to do,” she said.
Graduands and their guests will celebrate the successful completion of their university program at the graduation ceremony for Education, Engineering and Built Environment, Health and Community, and Sciences at 10am.
It will be followed by
Business and Commerce, Creative Arts and Media, Humanities and Communication, Information
Technology, and Law and Justice that afternoon at 2pm.
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