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I didn't keep reading when I posted my last post, CONGRATS on the job, I'm so glad you got it! I'm also glad you shared your story with us and I enjoyed reading it because a lot of us have been in a similar situation! Best of luck to you :)

I have a solution for you, don't read it!!!!! How rude if you don't want to read it then move on maybe she wanted to give a play by play and there is 100% nothing wrong with that. If you don't like it move on, no one asked you to read and respond and it's completely rude to comment on someone's post the way you did. You shoulda kept going if you can't handle the long post!! Oh this angers me. To the person who started this thread I would completely ignore people who say things like this, you should post as much or little as you want it is your story and you are not forcing anyone to read it. I can't believe how rude some people are, it's amazing.

That is not a bad idea pretty smart actually. I would love to be able to achieve my goal and then be able to inspire others in my situation. Something else to work for, thank you so much for the idea :)

Really I wish I could talk to her!!that is amazing, I hope I can be like that.

Typically you cannot take one without the other and I would assume you cannot drop one without dropping both, it's technically one course it's just broken up into two classes, but in the end it will count as one grade!! I agree get a tutor, do what you can to pull your grade up!

Ok I will check that out thanks for the advice and letting me know, I'm all for looking into other ways to help. Ofcourse I am new to all of this and still just scratching the surface but thank you for the advice!!! Thanks for the kind words too! I feel like I am doing the best thing I can for myself, and my son! I hope I make it through nursing school and hopefully by giving myself a purpose I will thrive :) The best of luck to you as we'll, I know you can do it, just go for it!!!!

I just want to say I think you should go for it. Your kids will understand and probably be amazed and look up to their mom for doing something so challenging nd going for your dreams. It shows them they can do and be anything. Also my story is completely different but I think It will show you should always go for it. I am 27 and I recently just started school again, doing my prereqs for nursing, and literally a month after going back found out its suggestive I have MS. It's not definite, but I am sure of it because all the signs say MS. So I went back and forth on if I should even continue. Then I realized, with some great advice, that I don't feel sick or bad now. I may later in life but for now if I just quit school and mope and wait to feel bad I am going to let life pass me by. So I am living for me now and I will officially be applying this coming summer. I still have a few prereqs I need to finish. So again I realize it is a completely different situation but I think you should absolutely go for it. I also have a 2 year old and I would like to think I will achieve my goals and make a better life for us both. I also would like to think it will show him, when can understand, that you can do and be anything, even when life doesn't hand you the cards you want, and I hope he will be proud of me!!

I also wanted to say thanks for the other advice as well, I was distracted by my son trying to write that last response, he is 2 lol and a handful. But I agree I think if I keep doing what I am doing at least I have some purpose. If insist around and mope and wait to feel bad I think I will bring it on myself faster. It's nice to hear someone say that though, thank you for your kind words. I plan to keep going to school and living my life until its not possible for me to do so. I don't really have anyone to talk to about this stuff so it's nice to have a little reassurance.

Thank you so much for sharing her story, very encouraging. Also thank you so much for the other advice as well. I do see what you mean though about reading about MS thr.. I don't think it willg intuit.. or any other MS forums, and I think I will listen to that advice because your right it affects everyone differently

My favorite website ever, I always check my professors out here before I take the class!!

Oh my Gosh I cannot believe you think 23 is old. I just have no words for this. I'm 27 and I don't even feel old. I think you're only as old as you let yourself feel.

I find I have the same problem, I am also taking A&P1 this semester. I have a couple tips that I found that have helped me. First if you are easily distracted, make sure you cut out anything that can make those distractions worse. The TV, I always tried to study with it on thinking it didn't affect me I could do both. But you can't make sure it's off. Make sure you sit somewhere you can sit with your back straight if you sight up straight with your spine in a straight up and down line rather than slouching over you'll get more oxygen to your brain, helping you to not get tired and therefore hopefully keeping a little more focus. Oh another big one turn your cell phone on silent when you plan to study. While you study do not answer text or phone calls! Like someone else said, 15 minutes on and 5 off, get up walk around, but each time try to go a little longer, then 20 on 5 off. Better yet if you can break it up into (4) 30 minute sessions. Use resources available to you. With my lab I have extra stuff online that helps me tremendously, get an A&P coloring book, that's my favorite, now I have an excuse to color :) one of my other favorite things to do notecards, while they can be time consuming to make, it makes such a difference. You can pull them out while going on a walk and study or anytime you have 5extra minutes, you can constantly test yourself. Last the biggest thing that helps me is find a study partner. Having someone else to study with gives you that boost of motivation to keep going. Having someone to talk to about it also helps you can quiz each other, it's helped me so much. Oh and also find out if your school has access to the models outside of class. We have a learning resource center where we can go study and check out the models and use them while there. That's a lot I hope you can use a couple if the ideas to help you get on track! Good luck :)

I have thought about this alot and I don't think you could be any more correct!! I think by allowing myself to continue on I will have a purpose for my life and I think that could be the healthiest thing for me. If I let myself give up on my dreams and mope it will only make it worse. It is nice hearing that from someone else. I really don't have many people to talk to about all this, none actually and so this has been nice and made me feel a little more confident. Also I am going to look into the alternative therapies because it could potentially help so why not! I like that go forth and live :) here is to living n the here and now and living my life in the present not the future of what may happen, while that stuff is still important I can't let it rule me. Thank you so much for your advice, very encouraging :)

Thanks for all your advice, I am definitely gonna check out the Montel Williams alternative treatments. I actually did do a google search of nurses with ms and didn't get much. However it's a good idea to look at nurses with disabilities, so thanks so much for all your advice, I really appreciate it. I pray things get better and work for you as well!

Thanks for the advice. So far the only person I really have medically helping me is the doctor from the hospital who also runs the specialty clinics there, and while I think he is knowledgeable when I asked him he said yeah you can keep going to school and that was it...he is also foreign making it very hard to understand him. I guess I need to try and talk with someone else. This all has happened very recently, I actually haven't even started the medicine although it is "ordered" and I should be starting very soon. It's scary, I know I can look at the resources online I am just scared of what I might hear to be honest. I had plans for my life and now my whole world is turned upside down, it really sucks.