A California RN State Retiree in her golden years in the Golden State From the Philippines, came to the United States on the Foreign Exchange Student Nurse Exchange Program in 1966 in Houston, Texas. Six months before the two years tenure of the exchange program, applied and took the State of California Board of Registered Nursing board exam to have obtained her RN license in 1969. She worked as staff RN in several nursing departments to vary and broaden her experiences on the job, worked longest in the critical care nursing units years before she went into mental health nursing in Southern California's Department of Forensic Mental Health at Patton State Hospital in more than twenty years to her retirement in September 2008. Most grateful as incredibly blessed in God's love legacy, lived and loved her job and made her work on her most incredible journey to a better life among all others in the professional nursing career of varied job opportunities in most God- blessed great America- the land of opportunity for all giving back and making a difference. Nursing, a caring and most fulfilling career that gives back.