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Meet...Lorraine

Name: Lorraine Bellaconis.

Department: Housekeeping, first floor Medical Center.

How long at MUSC: Two years.

Born: Charleston.

Family: Daughter, Tammy, and son, Kevin, and two granddaughters, Stephanie, 4, and Michelle, 6.

Favorite movie: Home Alone.

Favorite food: Fried chicken.

Favorite season: Spring.

Favorite restaurant: Ryan's.

Favorite pet: Ginger, she's a five-year-old Pekinese, reddish brown with white spots on her neck.

What do you like most about your job: I enjoy what I do, I like to clean and I enjoy meeting all the good people that come to MUSC everyday.

What is your biggest challenge: Raising my children.

Funniest thing you have seen on the job: I was trying to clean the men's restroom one day and the faucet came loose. I got all wet: my head, my arms and my shoulders. Someone else might have gotten mad, but I just thought it was funny.

Hobbies: Fishing.

Dream vacation: Hawaii.

Describe a perfect day: In the summer, I would go to the beach. In the winter, I would get a good book and read all day.

Most treasured material possession: My car. It may be old but it gets me where I need to go!

Something people don’t know about you: I was a cosmetologist. I worked at Brandon's Beauty Salon in West Ashley.

Words that you live by: Living with the Lord in my heart. Without my faith in the Lord, I wouldn't have made it through the hardships.