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Of course you should pursue nursing, if that is what you want to do!! It doesn't matter how old you are, I am 47 and in my 1st semester of LPN school. I also put off nursing for several years to take care of my disabled sister, so I do know where you are coming from. I am so sorry about your mom but I am sure she would want you to do what would make you the happiest. Just go for it!!
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I will be 48 when I graduate LPN program in Dec 08. Was supposed to graduate from ADN program 4 yrs ago, but dropped out to take care of disabled sister. I sure do hope there aren't any other big delays! :)
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ok, I'll tell on myself but.... at least I did have the excuse of being extremely young and naive. I had my son very young and was a single mom. When he was about 4 yrs. old (he's 28 now), he came to me saying "mama, somethings wrong with my weewee. It's too big." Well, I look and his poor "weewee" was swollen horribly, it looked like his fist instead of a member! Horrified, I throw him in the car and make a mad dash to the hospital, just imaging the whole way that it was going to explode or something. By the way, all this time he's not c/o of pain, just getting scared because of my panic. I rush in the ED, finally get seen.......then the Doc, trying very hard to keep a straight face but failing miserably tells me that it's just a chigger. Not being a boy myself and not having a husband, I didn't know that it sometimes affects little boys like that. I felt like a total idiot, wanted to crawl out the door. P.S. by the way, for anyone not acquainted with the chigger, it is a teeny, tiny little insect that burrows into your skin, very irritating to your skin and itches worse than anything you can imagine, but not dangerous.
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OK, I just had to respond to this one.....yeah, you're there for a reason.....and usually you are there, shut up in that little room, for HOURS! My sister is an advanced huntington's patient who has little balance left but who will still get up and try to walk by herself everytime your back is turned for 2 secs. which means lots of falls and lots of trips to ER. The town we live near has only one hosp. which does not have tv's in tx rooms of ER. My sister's congitive abilities are worse every day and add that to the jerking and shaking of Huntington's she can't read or do much of anything else to occupy herself except watch tv.....1 hour of sitting in that room with her seems like 4....I've actually thought about buying a portable tv to take with us, but figured the reception would be non existant....plus we only have 2 local stations w/o cable......so, yeah, I guess for the busy nurse it shouldn't be an issue, but for the trapped, bored, and in pain pt. it is a very large issue. As far as I am concerned that is not bs.