Nursing student needs encouragement
 

I am 51 and am looking for friends to lose weight with.....since menopause ..around late forties......i have been battling weight like no tomorrow and have decided this is it.......forty pounds over weight has got to stop......so got serious and starting fat bellies diet tomorrow.....go to grocery tomorrow......i live in eagle butte sd on the cheyenne river sioux reservation.....in the middle of nowhere surrounded by tooooooo many medical books.....graduate in May with associate and will go on and pursue my lBSN....only have a year more to acquire that hubby is like do it do it.....i am like so burned out on books.....love the clinicals we do this month we start ob and peds......just fifteen chapters in three weeks is a lot but not complaining my summer class had seven chapters a week in psychiatric nursing ....truly enjoyed this field but no places of that caliber around me......we had to travel four hours to that facility......so any isolated women like myself with nothing nearby other then a grocery store and dollar mart and gas station....lol...thanks for reading....please feel free to write i check these for a break from studies so i will post back......questions are welcome i will try to answer the best i can.....:carrot:

Hi, My, this post brought back unpleasant memories! ha!! I'm a nurse now and can say it was worth it, but I still remember sitting with my nose in a book for what seemed like forever. I was a late bloomer too, didn't go back to school untill I was 40 and my son was out of school.

Losing weight is always an issure and you want to make a good impression on your patients, don't you? Not be one of those nurses who say "do as I say, not as I do"? I had to lose the weight too. I'm at my goal weight now, but It's still a struggle every day. I am not a normally skinney person, but I think it's worth the effort to be one.

If you want a buddy let me know. Sounds like we have a lot in common

Welcome Reiginggal. I am a cardiac nurse graduated in '05, I remember all about nursing school I finished my BSN in one year. It was a whirlwind! I understand what you are going through with all the medical books. Just remember to review the NCLEX books as you go along. You'll get through it!! The light is at the end of the tunnel. Hope you like your clinicals this semester.

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There are many nurses & students around 3FC so you aren't alone. You may enjoy checking out the 50+ Area support group.

But, post wherever you're comfortable and let us all know about your progress.

Best of success!

Glad you are here :high:

-Susan