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That is a terrible loss.
Guess she was a travel nurse: Chicago nurse, 28, dies when boat hits her in water -- chicagotribune.com
The 28-year-old Chicago woman who died after being hit by a boat while wake-boarding on Geneva Lake over the weekend was passionate about her career as a registered nurse, friends said Monday.
Christina Ann Tully, who lived on the Near North Side of Chicago, worked as a traveling nurse for the University of Chicago Hospitals while studying to become a nurse practitioner. She was visiting Lake Geneva in Wisconsin to celebrate the completion of an important school paper, said family friend Pamela Reynolds.
Devoted to her profession, "she told me she hadn't called in [sick] for over two years," said a colleague, Roxie Porchia Young. Tully was from Tampa, Fla., and her nursing career had taken her to Miami, San Francisco, Philadelphia and Orlando, but she had a special fondness for Chicago, Reynolds said.
"It was young and there was so much to do and it was very vibrant," Reynolds said Tully had told her.
In addition to her job, Tully loved travel and her Yorkshire terrier, Sasha, friends said. She was also close to her parents, Robert and Mary-Ellen Tully of Winter Garden, Fla., and her brother Ryan, 15, Reynolds said.
Sad all around.
That is a terrible loss.
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