Many are surprised that I am studying to become a registered nurse. The program at the University of Alberta is a BScN After Degree which condenses the four year program into two (stacked) years. I’m writing finals right now and have 1.5 years left 🙂

It’s my 3rd degree, after Commerce and Music, and I’m really excited to be studying it. Actually, I had planned to go into nursing school back in 2004, if you look back at my University of Alberta application records. I felt that nursing was one of the noblest professions and nurses helped and cared for patients in such an effective way that I felt compelled to become a nurse. However, every time I applied for nursing, my abusive/controlling ex-husband didn’t allow me to pursue my dream of studying to be a nurse. He set many unreasonable rules, if any rules were broken, wifi would be confiscated, clothes shredded, I was kicked out of the house, culminating to the point of physical abuse. Add to that he was a serial cheater without remorse. Almost a decade of this, I left with just a suitcase. I left the old life behind.