25/11/2025
✨ I’ve only gone and done it! 🙌🏻🎓
At the grand old age of 35 (yes, yes, I know… you all assumed I was in my 20s, must be the great genetics and amazing skincare routine 😏), I decided to throw myself into university and start a nursing degree.
Well guess what?
I’M NOW A QUALIFIED NURSE.
Yes, you may panic. It’s encouraged.
I can honestly say it’s been the hardest thing I’ve ever done, but by far the most rewarding. It isn’t “just a course” — it’s three years of essays, research, exams, and over 2,300 hours of unpaid placement work doing 12.5-hour shifts, days and nights, in real clinical settings.
Along the way I’ve met the most amazing people. Every team I’ve worked with has been incredible, patient, supportive, and somehow willing to put up with someone as irritating as me (their words… definitely not mine 😇) who tolerated me being over-caffeinated, under-slept and occasionally feral. They deserve medals.
I’ve overcome more than I ever expected to, a spinal injury at the gym leading to major surgery and a year’s deferral thinking I might not make it back at all. A hysterectomy and a crash-landing into surgical menopause (10/10 do not recommend) 🥴
I’m also dyslexic, which just means I learn differently.
Thanks to my wonderful family (and the poor souls who had to proofread my essays at 2am), I managed to push through every hurdle.
And then there’s D, the Spare.
He’s survived more hormonal storms, meltdowns, rants, essays, night shifts and random outbursts than any man reasonably should. A true hero… occasionally.
He deserves a badge. Preferably one that says:
“I lived with a nursing student and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.”
💙 I did it. I actually did it.
Now onto the next challenge , stepping into life as a newly qualified nurse at Colchester Hospital. I cannot wait to get started (yes, they’ve willingly hired me. Terrifying, I know.)
And before anyone panics, yes, I will still be doing aesthetics!
It’s my passion, and I adore making everyone’s brows, lips and skin look amazing. That isn’t going anywhere! ✨💉💋
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