My role as a HouseCalls nurse practitioner
is to meet people in their homes
for annual wellness visits.
We meet patients wherever they live.
I’m able to put out fires before they ever start.
I get to spend an hour with them.
I’m there to treat and monitor the whole patient,
their medical needs,
their social needs,
and of course, behavioral health needs.
I want to use my knowledge and experience
to advocate for members to get the care that they need.
Live here in this little ol’ country town,
and I have approximately 11 deer
and I get up every morning and feed those deer.
Got through feeding the deer, and breathing a little hard,
and when I got in, that’s when it all started.
Hi.
Hi Heather.
How are you?
Jack’s blood pressure was dangerously high.
It was 217/110, she said there’s something going on.
And she said I’m going to treat you like my daddy.
She said if my daddy was like this,
he would go to the emergency room.
If Heather hadn’t come all the way out here,
I wouldn’t have went to the doctor.
There was no reason to take that chance.
She knows what she was doing
and if she thought I needed to go,
I was gonna go.
They found my widow maker was 97% stopped up.
After I got Jack to the ER and knew that he was there,
I got the update that he had had a stent placed in his heart
preventing a massive heart attack.
If it wasn’t for my guardian angel right here,
the doctor said I wouldn’t be here.
But you’re good now.
I'm real good now.
By her coming all the way out here
and checking me that day,
it, you know, it saved my life.