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[Rachelmm007]

I just thought it would be fun to share our stories of what really really made us want to become nurses. I will start with mine.

I remember as far back as 5 years old always making sure everybody in my family was ok while they were sick. As soon as I started grade school, I was constantly in the nurses office, simply because I liked watching the nurse help other students feel better, and she sometimes let me help her too. In 5th grade I was awarded the most likely to become a nurse, because I was always in the nurses office! lol

Well fast forward to after high school I never really had the confidence in my self to go to nursing school so I took the easy way out and attended pima for the MA program. Had my first son and had only worked for a year as an MA. Had my second son and decided that I was mature enough by the time he was 1 and started looking at going to nursing school again. Found Carrington College and was to begin in June of this year.

2 weeks before I started school my little brother (21) had passed away, I didn't think I could go on, but thinking about how proud my brother was of me when I told him that I was going back to school made me cringe at the thought of just wasting away at home. I had almost completed my first semester with a huge struggle, when an extremely tragic accident happened... My 10 month old nephew had passed away, while my sister and her husband were about to leave their house to come to mine... I will not go into great detail about the accident but it was extremely tragic... My sister and I are VERY VERY close and I again thought of quitting school to be with her to make sure she was ok..

It then dawned on me again.. I could not possibly stop my life, when I know that my nephew and brother would want nothing more of me than to keep going, in the memory of them.

I have been through a lot in the past 7 months, and it has made my dream of becoming a nurse more clear. After what I have been through I think I have the compassion it takes to comfort a patient, to treat them and to make sure that I do my best for them and their families. It would seem to others that my train of thought is probably extremely foggy, but it has never been so clear to me of what my purpose in life really is!

Now share your story! I love reading them!!!!!!