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specimen mounting, a cause for celebration, including a photo in a local newspaper. Says Moe, cThat was kind of fun. That was neat. d Shortly afterward, he got tapped to be president of the NTBG volunteer organization, Na Lima Kokua.

cHey, I jumped at that 4 I said yes, I really would love to do that, d says Moe. cI know people in the Garden and like them, and I want to work with them and want to have fun be- ing the head of Na Lima Kokua. d cChipper Wichman is every- thing that I remembered him to be, but now he is the director and I love the fact that he is in that position even more, so M o e : 8I get a great thrill ... giving tours 9 I v y : Teaches the value of humor in easing pain CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 what could be nicer for me than to be head of the volunteers un- der Chipper?

It 9s terrific. d Since taking on the task, Moe has helped recruit nearly 30 new volunteers. He 9s in touch with Wichman. cAs any good leader, Chip- per's always open to ... more. less.

sugges- tions and he wants to hear what 9s going on. I have no compunctions against filling him in on what I think might be an area where we could im- prove, d says Moe. Taking on the volunteer leadership in both organiza- tions might feel daunting to some, but for Moe, it is re- warding, and that 9s what keeps him at it. cIt 9s really just the satisfac- tion that you always get when you 9re doing something that 9s worthwhile, d he says. cCandid Camera d videos. He wrote a book about it that 9s become a classic, cAnatomy of An Illness, d first published in 1979. While working at Wilcox Memorial Hospital in the 880s as a rehabilitation and contin- uing care coordinator and an advocate for Kaua 8i 9s cancer patients, Osterlund initiated the Chuckle Channel, getting Frank De Lima and Andy Bu- matai to donate rights to show their videos on closed circuit TV. She began writing articles about the value of humor in easing pain, in reaching out to patients and more. Osterlund left Kaua 8i and Wilcox to move to O 8ahu to pursue a Master 9s degree of science in nursing (MSN) with a focus in pain manage- ment. She explains her work. cFor example, if your mom was in the hospital and she was having too much pain and the doctors and nurses didn 9t know what to do about it, they would call me or one of my staff to come interview your mom and make a recom- mendation about what to do, d says Osterlund. Job hunting after complet- ing her MSN, she says, cThe job on paper that I wanted was offered to me at Straub, but I felt a pull to Queen 9s that I couldn 9t explain. And then I later found out that my great, great, great grandfather was on the first board of trustees at Queen 9s, and from then on, programs that I proposed, projects that I created 4 doors just opened for me. d Those doors keep opening. One day while Osterlund was driving to work at Queen 9s, Ivy Push started speaking to her. A graduate of Queen 9s nurs- ing school in the late 1950s, Ivy Push has 40 years of nurs- ing experience. She 9s from Lawai, Kauai, Hawaii, and is of English, Irish, Scottish, Hawaiian, Chinese and Por- tuguese descent. cA lot of the Ivy Push per- formances have been for nursing conferences so nurses can say, 8Look, there 9s some- body who knows my story, 9 and it makes it all the funnier, because the story of nursing, and the story of health care is really the story of the impossi- ble, d says Osterlund. Ivy Push is funny to da max. Brit nurses respond to her. Actress/comedian Bea Arthur says, cForget Florence Nightingale. Ivy Push heals patients with huge doses of the quintessential pain killer 4 laughter! d Twenty five years after get- ting called on the carpet by her nursing instructors, Oster- lund 9s phone rings. cI got a phone call asking me to be the keynote speaker for a reunion for that school of nursing, d says Osterlund. cI was asked to be the keynote speaker on humor. cI knew that in the moment that I was having those criti- cal incident cards given to me, I knew in that moment that one day, that phone call 25 years later would happen. So when it did happen, it was very funny. d Hob Osterlund as herself, a consultant in pain management at Queen 9s Medical Center on O 8ahu. Local hero Photo by EUGENE TANNER Bethany Hamilton of Kauai makes her way onto shore after competing in a early heat of the Hawaii Amateur Surfing Association State Championship. Page 6 June 25, 2004 Kauai Island Monthly

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