Let Me Introduce Myself

To all who visit my blog, ::waves:: Hello!

My name is Ozella. I'm starting this blog to document my journey in nursing school while being a mother to an infant. I'm new at this so please bear with me.

I graduated from high school in '07 and went to a university for a few years majoring in criminal justice. After realizing there was no place for criminal justice in my future, I transferred to a college to major in business before ultimately deciding that nursing what truly my calling. So I spent a good 2 years or so taking prerequisites to apply for my school's nursing program. Despite its reputation for being difficult to get into, I was accepted on my very first try. I start my program on August 23.

I'm somewhat nervous, anxious and scared. I didn't know I was capable of experiencing all those emotions as once ha. I'm nervous because I just don't know what to expect. I can read all the blogs I want and ask nursing students all the questions I want, but I will never know what my experience will be until it's actually happening. Anxious because the healthcare field is so exciting and the hands on aspect of it is what I'm most looking forward to. Scared because being that my daughter will only be 6 months when I start, I'm not sure how I'll be able to deal with being away from her so long and having to discipline myself enough to seclude myself to study... on top of the fact that I breastfeed her.

Sometimes I wish she was still inside of me so she could go wherever I go. This past fall semester, I was in my third trimester taking Micro and Anatomy with labs along with three online classes and managed to pull straight A's that semester. I don't know if that was pure luck or straight inspiration from my, at the time, unborn. Everything I do now, I do so my baby can have a better life than I had... and I like to say I had a pretty good life.

I won't bore you already, so I'll end this here and post another entry about orientation.

Good day people!