"That direction" turned out to be a career in nursing burns. Jill is now the nurse manager at a large California burn clinic. "I think the people who come in see me differently to the other nurses. I think half the time they see me not as an employee of the hospital at all, but as a fellow survivor".

One of Jill's most vivid memories is when, as a young nurse, she was walking the corridors of the hospital where she was taken when she suffered her burns as a child. "There was this doctor in a white coat walking towards me, and when he saw me he just stopped in his tracks and stared at me. I was terrified, because he was a doctor and I was just a trainee nurse, and I wondered if I'd done anything wrong. And then he said to me 'Are you Jill Sproul?', and I said yes, I was. And when I said that he began to cry."

"Afterwards, he told me that he was one of the doctors who had treated my burns when I was a child. There had been times when I wasn't expected to live, and in those cases you can't help wondering as a doctor whether you're doing the right thing to save a life. But I guess when he saw me walking down the corridor of the hospital in my nurse's unifrom, it answered the question for him there and then."