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iowacindy said something that so far i feel many of you have missed. some of us can't afford insurance while in school and yet see these families recieving services that they can't get. right now i live paycheque to paycheque, and they're too few and far between. i work part time, so i don't qualify for any kind of benefits. i somehow make too much to qualify for state aid as well. i don't spend frivolously (my copy of the tightwad gazette is worn & dogeared to near death, my pc and net connection are gifts), but i can't seem to save, either. i have had terrible root canal gone bad for the last two years, because i feel that feeding my son and keeping a job so i can have somewhere to live is more of a priority than pain. so many people have said to me, 'don't you think that it would be worse for you and your son if you had to go to the hospital over this?' well duh. but i can't. yes- life isn't fair, i have learned that the hard way and am slowly crawling out of the barrel. so why is it that someone here illegally gets home visits and use of the er as a well-baby while i can't even be seen?? i believe that is the main point of iowacindy's argument- not whether the care should be given or not(from reading this thread that seems to be a choice made by the individual caregiver, not the system), nor how good that care should be. anyhow.. back to life, eh?

how did you go about becoming a nurse? i see that quite a few went the cna-l(v/p)n-rn. this is where i am now: cna working in assisted living and for an agency, i have all the pre-reqs for getting into nursing school and good grades, i have a small son but only have care for him during the weekdays & sun-mon nights, i can't afford more childcare for weekends or nights, nursing school here is only during the day, i have the money for either living off of or nursing school, but not both even with scholarships and grants and reimbursements. i can do one of a few things, and none of them seems a very good choice to me. i can wait until my son can care for himself (another 8 years) at night so i can go to school during the day and work at night. i can work doubles on sunday and monday evenings and pray that the income generated covers our living expenses(not bloody likely) so i can go to class during the day. i can attempt to take out an enormous loan to cover living expenses for the year til i make l(v/p)n whereupon i'll be back where i started or can stop at l(v/p)n and hang there til i can finish my rn one day. i can cross my fingers, enroll in nursing school and pray i find a friend fast who also has kids who doesn't need to work nights who wouldn't mind taking my son some nights/weekends so i can work. these are the solutions i see.. does anyone see something i'm missing? or have alternate solutions? great first post, eh?

odd- I can't seem to find a list of symptoms, nor any information on the prevalence of the disease being spread from caretaker(nurse,tech, dr, lab etc) to his/her family members.