So I've taken several months off of blogging, and volunteering to decide what I really wanted to do with my life. I couldn't find the drive to want to be a doctor any longer. It seemed the longer I actually took off from school, the more I didn't really want to go back. I'm sure this is the normal in most adult students; you get so used to a routine that it gets kind of scary to try to do something different. So I had been looking at what I would want to do instead, it was definitely medical, there was no leaving that; but I had looked into becoming an RN via LPN and the LPN/RN bridge program. That seemed like a great idea considering that was how I was going to go into premed and medical school.
Fast forward several months...
It is now late September, and I've decided that what I really want to do is become a doctor. There really is no changing that fact for me, it was really drilled into my head when my coworker was diagnosed with
Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. In some cases it really does take something extreme to point out that you were on the right path to what you wanted to do with your life.
That being said, I've enrolled in a LPN program at a local school here in Florida; I've always known I would need a career that I could do while I was working toward Medical school, because I would never be able to be that student that only went to class; and while securing financial aid is hard to do once you make a certain amount, I would much rather take out the loans, and be able to take of myself than spend a decade plus worrying about the bills I had. That being said I now have a long road ahead of me. I am currently 360 days from my graduation from the LPN program, from there I will be enrolling at either a state university or a community college; more than likely this will be a community college so I can do my prerequisites for my RN bridge classes. While doing my prerequisites and bridge I also plan on doing my premed classes, luckily a lot of the prerequisites for RN also over lap with premed (score). Along with that I'm also hoping to take some business courses; this is under the advice of a local foot and ankle surgeon in town that explained to me how much this could eventually help me run my own practice.
On top of classes, I also need to get back to my volunteer work; this is going to take a while to get back into the swing of, and I'm actually hoping to move departments. I would actually like to work in ED or even somewhere around the OR since I've been thinking about becoming a surgeon. While I'm sure some people love working with new mothers and young infants, that's not really my thing. I don't enjoy kids, or babies for the most part; so hopefully after I speak with the head of volunteer services I can work it into my schedule to volunteer in another department, something that is more interesting to me.
All in all, it's good to know that this is what I really want to do with my life. Now just comes the hard part of actually working toward that. I hope you'll all follow me for that adventure, and while I can't promise everyday updates, or even every week; I do promise to keep you updated on my adventure in becoming the best nurse, and eventually doctor that I can be.
Love,
The Pretend Doctor
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