A Beautiful Nightmare

[denise0815]

Congratulations!!!

Your story made me teary-eyed. I know the feeling of not having enough money to pursue something you want so desperatley and feeling like you might have to give up. I seem to go through it every semester.

Besides financial struggles, I also have a teenage son that will be home 4 nights a week without me (while I am at school/clinicals) and I feel guilty about that. But if I dont persevere, we will be in the same situation forever. I keep telling myself school is only temporary, and worth all the sacrifices.

The moment you describe when you realized your 'nightmare' was a reality is one I hope to experience someday soon. :)

Best of luck to you in your career!

[ely4usa]

what a beautiful story :)

I hope your story could inspire me to do this nursing classes :)

Put His faith on you. Its sounds so beautiful.Once again

Congrats. Hope the same miracle happen on me:)

[acaitan29]

i'll be with you in praying for your own little miracle..you're right..it was very,very trying experience..and it wasn't just before the exams that I experienced it..almost all the time that I was in school,this was a constant problem..but hey,i survived right?and so can you!i believe you can do it..godbless you..

[acaitan29]

what a beautiful story :)

I hope your story could inspire me to do this nursing classes :)

Put His faith on you. Its sounds so beautiful.Once again

Congrats. Hope the same miracle happen on me:)

I hope this story would be enough to sustain a little more inspiration that you have..'put His faith in me'..that was something I realized after all that i've been through..yes,He still have the most beautiful surprises..and I guess,He is cooking something for you too..ö

[diane227, LPN, RN]

Wonderful!!!!

I remember back in the dark ages when I took boards. We sat in a hugh room for two days, all day, taking paper and pencil exams. I really did not study much. I figured that if I did not know it by then, I would never know it. In those days the boards were taken in sections.... pedi, OB, Med surg and psych. The good thing was that if you flunked just one section, that was all you had to retake. Everyone walked out of the exam thinking they were going to have to retake at least part of the exam.

I recall that on my drive to Austin to sit for the boards I had a car accident. It was raining and it ran into the back of a POLICE CAR. That, of course, added a bit of extra stress.

In those days of course there were no computers or internet. All we had was snail mail. The situation was: If you got a large brown envelope then you passed because it contained your official nursing license it in. A large nursing certificate stating that you were officially an RN. If you got a regular white envelope, the news was bad. You failed the test. It took 6 weeks to get results. As the time neared we all watched our mailboxes with great dread. Then one day my mom and I were going shopping. As we left the driveway, she got out to get the mail and she pulled this large brown envelope out of the box. We both started crying, even before we opened it. It was over. No more school, no more tests... I had made it. I was finally an RN.

[Humanatarian123]

Awww congrats!! Your story was very touching and motivating!!

[gracedRN, BSN, RN]

Wow. Very inspiring. I must reiterate, "Congratulations, Miss R.N.!!"

Wishing you the best.