HEALTH AND WELLNESS

The Merits of Prevention
By Linda Palmer and Wendy Rudy

Wendy has always been a scrapper for the causes she believes in.

Health and Wellness has always been her heart’s forte beginning with her initial dream of a Sports Medicine career, then her experience as a student of the Naval Academy of Heath Sciences near Chicago, where she was privileged to serve our hospitalized Veterans throughout her training.

Oaknoll Naval Hospital near Oakland, and various other military assignments as a Hospital Corpsman reservist for 13 years had Wendy in the fray of things during Desert Storm.

Later, many other medical offices learned of her feelings of gratitude and compassion for our veteran’s wellness while under care. I believe she won election as a rare young female City Council Member for the City of Visalia, California, due to support by Veterans. She did not betray their trust.

She’s currently under Contract for several local community projects centering on prevention, and is a full time re-entry Communications Major at Oregon State University in Corvallis, where she makes her home with her husband Will and youngest child, Emily. She was P.E. Coach at Mid-Coast Christian School in Toledo, Oregon for two years prior. The Drill Sergeant, indeed, but her kids miss her.

This Section is right up her alley.