Thanks for the post, lovebirdsflying.

My sister can't drive well because of vision problems and that is a shame because it makes her dependent on the sister she lives with. Without her glasses she is legally blind. She totaled a car once and she has been taking driving lessons but she never practices driving. She is too scared to try again. She lives in a rural area nowhere near the bus line.

That is cool that your cousin is successful despite the PTSD. I initially thought I would want to work in the ED because I liked being a paramedic but I found I liked cardiac more. Interesting about mental illness and being competent - one of the doctors I worked with had schizophrenia but he was still a very good nephrologist. Sometimes it was a bit confusing because he talked to his hallucinations and I had to learn to work with eccentricities.