WoodysGirl
12-15-2010, 08:55 PM
BY Meredith Land (http://www.nbcdfw.com/results/?keywords=) // Wednesday, Dec 15, 2010 at 09:37 CST
The wife of one of the Dallas Cowboys' biggest stars could sit around enjoying a life of luxury. Instead, she tends to the sick and injured in Dallas County's public hospital.
Her badge simply reads "Michelle W." Few people know the trauma nurse is Michelle Witten, the wife of tight end Jason Witten.
And just like No. 82, she is living her dream in Dallas.
"He had played in the Cotton Bowl down here when he was in college and, at the time, I was in nursing school, and I said, 'I would love to work at Parkland. I would love to be a trauma nurse and work in the ER at a Level I trauma center like that," she said.
Read more: http://www.nbcdfw.com/blogs/blue-star/Wife-of-Cowboys-Star-Shines-in-the-ER-111897374.html
Video: http://www.nbcdfw.com/blogs/blue-star/Wife_of_Cowboys_Star_Shines_in_the_ER_Dallas-Fort_Worth-111921364.html
The wife of one of the Dallas Cowboys' biggest stars could sit around enjoying a life of luxury. Instead, she tends to the sick and injured in Dallas County's public hospital.
Her badge simply reads "Michelle W." Few people know the trauma nurse is Michelle Witten, the wife of tight end Jason Witten.
And just like No. 82, she is living her dream in Dallas.
"He had played in the Cotton Bowl down here when he was in college and, at the time, I was in nursing school, and I said, 'I would love to work at Parkland. I would love to be a trauma nurse and work in the ER at a Level I trauma center like that," she said.
Read more: http://www.nbcdfw.com/blogs/blue-star/Wife-of-Cowboys-Star-Shines-in-the-ER-111897374.html
Video: http://www.nbcdfw.com/blogs/blue-star/Wife_of_Cowboys_Star_Shines_in_the_ER_Dallas-Fort_Worth-111921364.html