You will NEVER know how you’ve changed my life

Graduated 7/29/2019. Mother of 6, made the Deans List every semester, graduated with a 4.0! I was a LPN for 9 yrs prior to returning to school to complete my RN. Unfortunately, my school did not have a good program for bridge students and I did not pass boards. I was devastated and could not make sense of this as I was a good student. It wasn’t until I listened to ReMar and heard LPN’s typically who have been out in the work world typically don’t do well on this test. The real life situations that we experience and not the correct answers for NCLEX. I was never taught how to break down the questions, words, or terminology to dissect what the question is really asking. I received basic information with a TON of “FLUFF”! Nobody wants to learn “fluff” when they are trying to conquer a dream that they’ve worked endlessly to succeed at. I paid all of this money to get a certificate printed with my name and degree but didn’t have the credentials to validate it. This was the worst feeling in the world. I was so scared to retest I moved my date 4 times until I ran out of time of moving it again. Along my journey I ran across a post by Grace Rodriguez, who had just passed her NCLEX ❤️❤️❤️. I congratulated her as I have many others on this site. For whatever reason I inboxed Grace asking her if I could have her uworld account if she had any time left? I didn’t get a response so life went on. 2-3 wks later Grace inboxed me and states she was ok with it but she was leery because she didn’t know me and the account had some of her personal information. I told her I understood but reassured her of who I was, how grateful I would be and what my situation was....let’s just say within 5 minutes Grace knew a lot about my family and I 😂😂😂. I was in desperate need of UWORLD and could not afford it. Grace gave me her account and her Kaplan account for FREE ❤️💪🏽😭🙌🏽. She definitely paid it forward!!! She kept in touch with me for the next month and a half and inspired me. She believed in me when I once didn’t believe in myself. I told her she was going to be the first person I talked to when I came out of my exam. My exam was scheduled for 2/27/20 at 12:30pm. Grace text me the night before and gave me words of encouragement. I felt CONFIDENT that I was going to pass this time. I had all the resources needed to pass and put in the time to study.

My only worry was “time” I’m a super slow test taker and had extra time in school for test. I also have terrible test anxiety that I have meds to help with, BUT THIS DAY 02/27/20 I was focused on the prize, my license. I slept with my bible open under my pillow the night before. I prayed that God be with me and I thanked God that he brought Grace into my life! I went into my test, I skipped the first break, I took the second break, and RAN OUT OF TIME at 195 questions. I told myself I was in it until the end so if I failed it’s because I ran out of time. I figured slow and accurate would be better that fast and fail any day so that was my strategy. I came out of the exam feeling at peace with my choice to take my time. I text Grace and told her I ran out of time. I asked if I could still pass and she said yes, it’s possible! I did the trick got the “good pop up”. I was numb and in disbelief 😳. She congratulated me but I was in denial. I’ve seen this “good pop up” 1,000’s of times but now that it was mine it wasn’t real 🤷🏽‍♀️. The next day my BON updated to “ready issue”. It’s been a little over a week, I’ve received my license number, certificate in the mail, and reality STILL hasn’t hit me. Grace and I have remained friends and I will NEVER forget how her generosity helped me achieve my life long goal of becoming an RN ❤️❤️❤️. No matter what, NEVER GIVE UP! I used UWORLD, Kaplan, Mark Klimek, & of course this group 😊. Thank you all for all of the practice questions and rationales. Thank you Grace for encouraging & believing in me, you will NEVER know how you’ve changed my life ❤️❤️❤️🥰