I am starting my LVN classes next Monday the 18th!! I am a little nervous as I have not been in nursing school for over 12 years. ( I had to quit when we moved to Germany and the RN program was frozen).
I have had some problems with my bile duct since I had WLS in Aug 05, and plastics to take care of the excess skin, and also had an ERCP last October which opened up my bile duct, but it is clogged again. I went to the liver specialist/bile duct specialist again today and we are going to try Actigall to hopefully get rid of the bile stones. We are praying the medication will stop the bile stones from forming.
Well, the school has been wonderful and told me not to worry, that they would work with me on my doctor's appts, and hopefully we won't have to worry with surgery, and if I have to drop out for a bit, I can pick back up the next class in October, but they really were wonderful in encouraging me to start next week instead of October. Clinicals won't start until Fall anyway....so I am very pleased they are working with me.
Any suggestions for an old chick going back to school??
I will be 41 on the 13th, and I for the first time ever feel 30!! So, why not, I am going younger, not older!!
:)
Thanks for all the support on here. The LVN board has been a blessing. I have to say other areas on this website have really been discouraging and the people have been "well, quite rude" and crude!! I was in tears one day from a nasty comment from an irritable moderator who had no right butting her nose in to a personal post, that was not her place. The admin at least stuck up for me, and set her straight.
I had thought what a bloody mess this website is, instead of a refuge of sorts for nurses, students, etc...where we can come and vent and get advice....a safe place/safe haven, it turned out to be a place that I thought if this is how nurses really are, I don't want to be one, or a part of this website.
I have decided to just stick out over here, on the LVN side, where most of the people seem to really care. Its sad to say that about the RN side, and I never thought there was a "we-they" thing, but there most certainly is.
Anyway, I hope to get great bits of advice and I look forward to school next week, and hopefully everyone here will be able to give me some sort of advice for returning to school :)
