My wife is now Dr Walker PhD

[Bill Groom]

Congratulations to your wife, what am amazing journey she undertook and conquered! And a hearty congratulations to you for all the support and encouragement it takes to see that task through to completion. After earning an MBA, I have no desire to take it any further.

Here is to many years of success to you both!

 

[Deere Dude]

Congrats to both of you. I am sure it took a lot of sacrifices to achieve that goal.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Congratulations Dr. Walker and Eddie.

From what I understand, half the battle of getting your PhD is just getting into a program. We have had 4 people leave at work recently to pursue theirs.

You guys make a great team.

 

[hawkeye08]

Congratulations! Awesome accomplishment, even more so with the challenges she faced with her health.

 

[cdaigle430]

My wife and I got ours a long time ago one winter but you can call us doctor. We got our PHD (Potato House Degree) in a potato house packing potatoes.

 

[dodge man]

Congrats to her, thats a big deal in my book! Do you have to call her Doctor or does she let you slide with just Doc?

 

[Topzide]

Hats off to her for following her dreams! Hope that she finds all was well worth and that the spark for knowledge never be out of her reach!

 

[WVBill]

Congratulations to your wife, and you Eddie. And what a worthy field for her.
Having recently gone through end-of-life struggles for my father in law it's something we should all be paying attention to. We can't avoid it, we can only make it easier - for everyone. But it takes planning. Everyone - please document your end-of-life wishes and plans. It's not something that should be put off "until the time comes".

 

[BRMyers]

That is a great accomplishment for her, congrats. I think in honor of her great accomplishment, you should go buy a new tractor to celebrate the achievement and mark the occasion. I'm sure the doctor will approve.

 

[Molalla1]

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This morning my wife successfully defended her Dissertation and officially earned her PhD. On Dec 13th, she will receive her degree at the graduation ceremony. What impresses me the most about this is that she is a High School drop out that was married with her first kid when she was 16. After her second kid, she realized that she needed to make some changes in her life and started her life of education. First was a Bachelors in Nursing, then a Masters in Nursing and then her MBA. All along, she wanted a PhD, but she was also raising 4 kids on her own and working full time. She never gave up, even when she was confined to a bed in the hospital while fighting colon cancer last year!!!!!

The PhD is in Palliative Care, which made it a lot harder then some of the other things she could have done it in, but that's where her passion is and it's a field that has been neglected by modern medicine. There are a lot of plans for her with the University, she will now be on the track for Tenure, they are talking about a speaking tour and one of the advisers today said that they need her to come to DC to explain her work and do whatever it is that they do there. It's all over my head, especially since she writes at grade level 19, but from what I understand, she has 4 articles to publish from this, and there is talk of the University of Texas giving her a year off from teaching to focus on her research. This is all talk, but it's been in the making for awhile now. She just needed to finish this part and now we will see what happens next.

I am now official a Doctors husband!!

That is just awesome Eddie!!!! Congratulations to the new Doctor.