I just want to vent a little. My family seems to have this thing about doctors. When I called my folks to tell them I was getting a divorce, the very first thing my Dad said was "Oh good, now you can be a doctor!" (uh, say what?) Last night I got a long long email from my brother telling me about a med school on Dominica island where "even you" could get an MD.
Okay, people...try to get this...I WANT to be a nurse. Someday I may go back to school and get an NP, but that'll be because I want to be a Nurse Practitioner, NOT because I'm a frustrated wanna be doctor. I LIKE the way nurses care for the whole person. I LIKE the fact that we see the patient, not the disease. I don't want to be a doctor. Nope, Huh-uh, no way.
But that means, in my family, I'm deliberately choosing to be a 'second class citizen'. And, I have to admit, it hurts my feelings just a little bit that they can't be proud of me for my choices. Getting my BSN as a single Mom with four kids (okay, most of them are out of the house now, but that doesn't mean they don't require mothering) has been HARD. And I'm proud of it. I just wish they could be proud for me too.