OMG!

I was not overreacting! OMG! I can now say that I have survived the first week of nursing school. Many factors contributed for this being a particularly hard week. First I started the week completely sleep deprived. I was so excited the night before that I couldn’t fall asleep. My Fibromyalgia was in full gear after my last HepB shot, which had only been 5 days before. I had been throwing up as a reaction and was able to eat hardly anything during that week.

Here are some of the challenges I experienced:

•   started the week sleep deprived

•   level 8 pain form fibromyalgia induced by vaccination

•   vomiting and unable to eat due to vaccination reaction

•   lots of problems creating accounts and logging in to all the online books and courses

•   hours on the phone with technical support

•   elementary school strike and lack of plan B childcare

•   kid with strep throat, high fever, rash and unable to eat

•   kid with lice

•   missed an intire 3 hour lecture because the college messed up my schedule

•   stress trying at catch up missed class

•   lots and lots of homework

•   my business partner away on vacation (me taking over)

So, here I am questioning how long I’m going to last. The thought of enduring this for the next 16 months without a break makes me feel my life is over. I guess I could try to see in a different light. I could say this IS my new life. I feel like I have developed a new personality. My life as a full-time student is very different to my life at home and it feels like I have a double personality. I know this sounds crazy and maybe it is just part of my adaptation to this completely foreign experience.