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Hi my name is Joanna and I recently found allnurses.com a couple of days ago and decided to join. I am glad to know that there are many others feeling or going thru the same anxieties as I am going thru. Here is brief background about myself. Nursing has always been in my mind since I graduated high school, but never actually did anything about it. November of 2007 was one of my life's greatest blessing the birth of my son. My son was keeped in NICU for 7 days. The longest 7 days I have ever lived. Being a first time mother I was there with him from sunrise to sunset, so I meet every single nurse he had. There was one paticular nurse that I will never forget her name is AIDE. I told her about how nursing is something I would like to do, but I never find the time to got to school, I am getting older, and honestly I've always had a fear that I am just not capable enough to do it. She looked at me and said don't ever say you are not capable enough because if I did it by coming to this country not knowing the language , being much older than you, and going thru hurdles just to be able to pruse my dream I know you are capable of doing it and much easier than I; You know the language, you are still young, and most importantly you have the drive to do it. There was just one thing still stopping me finding the time to go to school if I've always had to work to support myself. Fortunaly I found myself a wonderful husband. When we first married I told him one day if someone would give me the chance to go back to school full time I would take their offer in a heartbeat. So 6 months after our sons birth my husband turn around and said I am going to give you that chance and go back to school full time. We knew we were going to have hard times ahead of us financially, but having a career is ten times better than just having a well paying job. So to make a long story short. A year later not only did I finish my prerequisites I have one more math class to finish to obtain an AA in Liberal Arts. I am currently applying left and right to all community colleges and universities so I can start the nursing program in the Spring of 2010. It has not been easy, but doable. I am just anxious about the nursing program not knowing what to expect, so if anyone has words of encouragements do not hesitate to throw them my way. Thanks