Getting to Know the Class of 2018: Peyton Klinghammer

Senior Spotlight featuring Peyton Klinghammer

Getting to Know the Class of 2018: Peyton Klinghammer

In 2009, Peyton Klinghammer experienced an event that impacted her life’s trajectory: her aunt passed away from lung cancer. Klinghammer said, “I was around the nurses. We were up around the hospital every day until she passed.” This experience caused her to decide she would like to go into the field of nursing.

Klinghammer has worked as a CNA at the Heritage House since October 2017. “It gets stressful at times,” Klinghammer explained, but it’s important to her to know that residents are “getting cared for by someone nice.” One of the meaningful experiences Klinghammer has had as a CNA was being with a resident during the final hours of their life. “She had no other family. She had no one to be there for her,” Klinghammer said.

Klinghammer said her mom has impacted her life because she “stands her ground” and doesn’t let anyone tell her what to do. She has two dogs: Naní, a one-year-old blue nose pitbull, and Apollo, a pitbull mastiff around six or seven months old. “He whines constantly when I’m home. If you stomp your foot he whimpers,” Klinghammer said about Apollo. She enjoys shopping and watching movies, her favorite of which is “Wonder” because “it gives you a perspective on bullying.”