Can I Really Do This....?

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I've read All Nurses for over a year now - I think each of you are amazing and your stories are spellbinding - I find myself reading them for hours. My dream has always been to be a nurse - actually a doctor when I was 6 but then I realized that might be a challenge - and I thought nurses were cooler!

I started going to school here in VA and dropped out to get married - I thought my new fiancee was more important than my education. We had a few great years together as husband and wife, then one night when I was working late I came home early and....met his new girlfriend - never knew she existed - he met her at work...2007 has been one heck of a year.

As I've gone through these drastic changes over this past year the dream of wanting to be a nurse again has come back full force - I want nothing more. This is my life and I'm the only one who can live it - but - I'm scared to death. I'm 28 years old - 29 in January, I work full time and part-time to help pay some of the bills he left behind when he moved in with her - I work at a financial institution nothing close to a medical institution and I want to go back to school part-time Fall / Spring / Summer until I finish my pre-nursing degree and start the nursing program full time.

I'm scared to death (yes I do visit a therapist regularly... ;)) I don't know if I can really achieve this or if this is just a pipe dream. So - I decided to turn to the real nurses, the ones who I've been reading their stories endlessly (my favorite being the Ghost Stories :uhoh21:) is there anyone out there - anyone at all who has been in this kind of situation - and who has conquered it, can I really do this or do I stop before I start....please help - I want this more than anything - I just don't know if I can do it....

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Hi there! I am sorry to hear what happened to you, but I want to say..

YOU CAN DO THIS! While I am not in the same situation, I am not in the easiest. I am 21, married and have a 2 year old son. I work full-time, and go to school full-time. Now, I have not started Nursing school yet, but I do plan to still work when I do.

Believe in yourself, and you can do whatever you put your mind too!

Good Luck!:welcome:

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Here's another voice of support. I was working in finance for nearly 7 years before I quit to start nursing school at 28. Right after I started my fiance and I split up, though thankfully nothing as traumatic as what I expect you went through! It's challenging to take this step, but very worth it.

I took my pre-reqs part time while I worked full-time. It was an exercise in balance, but very doable and I actually looked forward to school because it was "me" time... time to work towards something I really wanted, whereas my job was just a paycheck.

Keep putting one foot in front of the other and you'll be fine. This website is a great resource, as you already know! Good luck to you!

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I've read All Nurses for over a year now - I think each of you are amazing and your stories are spellbinding - I find myself reading them for hours. My dream has always been to be a nurse - actually a doctor when I was 6 but then I realized that might be a challenge - and I thought nurses were cooler!

I started going to school here in VA and dropped out to get married - I thought my new fiancee was more important than my education. We had a few great years together as husband and wife, then one night when I was working late I came home early and....met his new girlfriend - never knew she existed - he met her at work...2007 has been one heck of a year.

As I've gone through these drastic changes over this past year the dream of wanting to be a nurse again has come back full force - I want nothing more. This is my life and I'm the only one who can live it - but - I'm scared to death. I'm 28 years old - 29 in January, I work full time and part-time to help pay some of the bills he left behind when he moved in with her - I work at a financial institution nothing close to a medical institution and I want to go back to school part-time Fall / Spring / Summer until I finish my pre-nursing degree and start the nursing program full time.

I'm scared to death (yes I do visit a therapist regularly... ;)) I don't know if I can really achieve this or if this is just a pipe dream. So - I decided to turn to the real nurses, the ones who I've been reading their stories endlessly (my favorite being the Ghost Stories :uhoh21:) is there anyone out there - anyone at all who has been in this kind of situation - and who has conquered it, can I really do this or do I stop before I start....please help - I want this more than anything - I just don't know if I can do it....

Hey there!

I read your story and my heart really does go out to you. I felt as if you had typed my story. I married when I was 27 to a man that i've been with for 10 years. By the time I turned 28 we were done. I too came home from work early to find him with someone in "our" home who was "our" coworker. Nice huh??

I know that it has taken me years to come back and think about school. BUT........my dream of becoming a nurse has never died. I finally applied back for Spring 08 to go back to school, finish my pre req's, and get into the nursing program.

I work full time currently in social service. I manage group homes for the developmentally disabled. (25 of them :uhoh21:) It's a lot of work and i'm definitely scared it's going to be hard with school.....ugh!

BUT...i'm not stopping myself any longer. This is what I want. If you ever need to just vent or just need a push of encouragement, continue to come to the forums. Everyone on the forums whom I have had the pleasure of posting with have been great!

Good luck and I hope that you will pursue your dream!

:monkeydance: allieinaz

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Yes you really can do this, "whatever the mind can conceive and believe it will achieve". I am 50 years old, work full time and a pre-nursing student. I've been taking one or two classes per semester moving like a snail, but still moving. Finally, I'm almost finished with pre-reqs; this semester I'm taking Anatomy & Physiology I, and plan to take the NET (nurse entrance test) in January. Then I'll only have 2 more classes left before entering nursing school. You can do this! As long as you have energy, determination, and good health in you bones, you can do this. Just take it one day at a time, move at your own pace and make your dream of becoming a nurse a reality!

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You can ABSOLUTELY do it!!! I'm finishing up a BS in another field and then I'm headed right back to school to try to be a nurse (full time job and family and all). I always wanted to be one but I was scared to death of all the prereqs and how competitive it was to get in, etc. etc. The bottom line is that if it's your calling to be a nurse, nothing in the world will make you as happy, so you need to go for it! Thank god for this forum, I'm just like you and I read it for hours all the time before I finally got the guts to follow my dream. We're all in the same boat and you get a lot of support here! Good luck and I believe in you!!! :yelclap:

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