Bjorn J. Sundling was born in Nebraska to a Swedish speaking family and lived there until 1969. He had a failed early college career due to what was diagnosed, albeit much later in life, as having moderate to severe ADHD (but it plagued him from a very young age.) That event, which some called a failure, prompted him to join the US Army in 1971. When he was shipped overseas, he served as a medic on a SAR/Recon team. He frequently tells people that he grew up in the Army while overseas. He has stated to numerous people that much of his success in the field during that time was due to his ADHD, although he was not looked upon kindly by more senior NCO’s, who tried, and failed, to have him busted down to Private E-1 for his antics and lack of impulse control, related to the ADHD, when he was not out in the field. He attained the rank of E-5 and kept his stripes to the end of his time in the Army, to the amazement of many and consternation of others.

When he separated from the Army in the mid 70’s, he began to work in a number of Emergency Rooms. He became an RN, and all told, he worked in various ER's for more than 33 years, teaching Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) and other subjects related to Emergency Nursing. He served on several Emergency Response (or Code Blue) Teams. When asked about the stress of the ER, he would tell people, “The stress could be worse. At least, in the ER, no one is shooting at us.” Emergency Room Critical Care was almost a passion for him, and he would precept students and new nurses every chance that was offered. Upon his retirement from ER, he began to instructing nursing students in LPN and RN programs. He has since retired from teaching.

He lives in Oklahoma with his wife of 40 plus years and goes out in the woods, hunting, deer, mostly every chance he gets with either a gun or a bow. He is happiest when he is out in the woods communing with nature or in the kitchen creating recipes that include the animals he has hunted.