True story, back in 1979 I enrolled in school to become an LPN. My mother went through the same school in '72 and got "Student of the Year" So...

It just was totally not me. I could do the class work, got average to good grades, but was a total wreck when it came to know what to do first in a clinical situation. Do I feed someone? Do I assist a patient to the bathroom? I had a ward of 4 and just froze...I was most definitely written up.

The finale, I quit within ONE week of graduation. I felt awful. I felt like I let my family down. I felt like a failure.

Knowing what I know now almost 35 years later, I would have made a lousy nurse. I enjoy people, but nursing is not my thing! And, looking back, I think I had some twisted competition going on with my mom. I was lost and thought I'd try being a nurse.

Do what's good and right for you. Don't think of yourself as a failure! Cat