As we were leaving high
school I doubt any of us thought much about what really was going to
be happening (or not happening as the case might be). I decided that
after graduation it was my mission in life to make sure that every
single female on the campus of BYU-I had the opportunity to go on an
amazing date with yours truly. I am sure that many broken hearts
ensued, but it just wasn’t meant to be, as I hadn’t found my
one-true-love. So I attended church on campus throughout the summer
and decided that I would start school in the fall. In my mind I
would have preferred to send in my mission papers as soon as I
graduated high school, but my birthday precluded me from turning in
any mission papers until most of the way through the college semester
anyhow. I decided to major in Biology and minor in Chemistry
thinking that I would be headed to medical school after I finished my
bachelor’s degree when I got back from my mission (little did I
know that wasn’t going to be happening!)
I went to the Fall 2002
and Spring 2003 semesters at BYU-I and then this small town country
boy was shipped off to the 8th
largest metropolitan area in the world, São
Paulo, Brazil to learn Portuguese and serve a mission in the Brazil
Riberão Preto Mission. I
can honestly say the hardest two years of my life, but definitely the
most rewarding. Little did I know I would be returning stateside at
the same time my future bride was returning from her mission to
Panama City, Panama. I wouldn’t even meet her for three months,
but little did she know I was going to be the next best thing since
sliced bread! After my mission I decided I needed to buckle down and
figure out what I wanted to do with my life. So between my 4-6 dates
per week and a busy school schedule, I proceeded to job shadow
several MD’s and realized that it just wasn’t my calling in life.
I also job shadowed a pharmacist at Memorial Hospital and found out,
that it was something I really enjoyed.
I met my wife Celeste
Taphous, from Ohio, through a mutual friend, only after dating three
out of the four of her roommates. We were on talking terms, but that
was about it. Then, the week before the 18th
of February 2006 I decided that she needed to go on a hike/date with
a group of us during one of the coldest winters on record in Rexburg.
She was the only girl I had ever met that had so bluntly told me
“NO”! Then I proceeded to hear it four more times until either I
wore her out or she just wanted me to leave, but that was the start
to something amazing. We were engaged in April outside of the Idaho
Falls Temple, and we were sealed for eternity on August 18, 2006 in
the same temple. I couldn’t imagine my life without her and every
day is one I look forward to living with my dream girl.
I applied to the Idaho
State University-College of Pharmacy with just my pre-requisites and
a $55 application fee gamble, and it paid off. I lived in Pocatello
for the first three years of my program where we had our first kiddo,
Eva, while I was pursuing my degree and Celeste was getting her
Master’s in Public Health. Right before my final year of pharmacy
school we had our number two, Hunter, and then two weeks later we
moved to Coeur D’Alene, ID for my final year of clinical rotations.
We enjoyed every minute of it! I graduated with my Doctorate of
Pharmacy in May 2011, moved to Twin Falls, Idaho for a job, and had
baby number three, Londyn, in September. I went through the process
of applying for clinical residency, to become board certified, and
lo-and-behold I am now starting a residency program with the
Veteran’s Affairs in Lincoln, Nebraska.
I can usually be reached
at jeremyboehme@yahoo or gmail.com and if you would like an invite to
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