ghostfoot said:
I'm sorry Spenser, that sounds horrible.
Out of curiosity, why would you need to retake two years of classes?
I'd only taken bunch of anthropology classes, and history classes. The only science classes I had were an astronomy class, a general bio class, and a health bio class. I just finished an anatomy class over the summer, and loved it. I have no chemistry, no physics, no bio classes with labs, and no calculus. I'll need the chem and the bio before I can take anything uppperdivision.
In short, I had a volunteer counselor who told me exactly what I wanted to hear, and nothing I
needed to hear. I was told that lower division classes didn't mean much, and it was my time to take whatever the heck I wanted. It was never even
hinted to that I needed other stuff - but, that's my fault for not inquiring.
I should say that I had both a terrible experience in the hospital, and a good one. It made me want to go from being a nurse, to a doctor. I had three great nurses, and one horrible one. Both the doctors that watched over me, and the one that did the surgery, were all amazing. As time passed, I realized that my time in the hospital was made decent because of the nurses, but it was the doctor(s) that were going to be the ones that would help me walk again. It's surreal to think about - it looked sketchy for awhile, and the underlying problem as to what the hell was happening that caused the injury was going completely un-noticed. At first, I was told that I might have renal failure; but thankfully, it turned out that my kidney's couldn't be healthier. It took a doctor with 25 years experience and a resisdent to figure out the problem, and I quote Dr. Berge on this one, "It's so damned simple son, your all out of whack!" I later learned that my calcitonin levels were causing the problem. Anyway, that's my little story. I'll continue my efforts in getting into med-school via traditional means.
