“…This quest and interest in communication led me to take classes in the Department of Speech Communication. In my second year in the program I participated in a study interviewing families receiving care from pediatric cardiologists at the University Hospital (Chenail, Douthit, Gale, Stormberg, Morris, Park, Sridaromont, & Schmer, 1990). This project entailed interviewing families, and introduced me to data collection, data immersion, transcribing, category development via discourse analysis, collaborating with colleagues, the rigors and commitment of time of doing qualitative research and the excitement of writing and publication.…”