please help me become a doctor!
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Hi, I have never really done anything like this before so please bear with me!!
My name is Bella and I am a 26 year old woman living in cornwall. For the past 5 years I have been living with an illness which was initially misdiagnosed as idiopathic intracranial hypertension which is medical talk for "there is too much pressure in your head and we dont know why". I have had lots of ups and downs and my treatment has been pretty difficult. I have had 24 lumbar punctures, 4 brain surgeries and 2 spine surgeries along with many many hospital admissions. I have long term damage to my eyes resulting in decreased peripheral vision or "tunnel vision" and I also live in intermittant pain. I sought a second opinion last year and they diagnosed me with transverse sinus stenosis which was causing the pressure increase, they put a stent in and fixed the problem and I am (pretty much) back to normal. The downside is that all this has happened during the years of my life where I should've been building a career or a life for myself, I had to drop out of university where I was studying English literature due to ill health
. Thanks to decreased funding for higher education, ie a levels, for over 24 year olds this means that I will have to pay for them myself in full. I have always wanted to be a doctor and being ill has only further solidified that in my mind, I am currently working in a GP practice as a prescription clerk and it has further deepend my desire to train in medicine!! I am looking for help simply because I cant afford it myself, I am looking at studying Maths, Biology, Chemistry and Physics at a level, these are all subjects which I love and succeeded at whilst at school, I cant wait to get back to education and start living again!!!
My name is Bella and I am a 26 year old woman living in cornwall. For the past 5 years I have been living with an illness which was initially misdiagnosed as idiopathic intracranial hypertension which is medical talk for "there is too much pressure in your head and we dont know why". I have had lots of ups and downs and my treatment has been pretty difficult. I have had 24 lumbar punctures, 4 brain surgeries and 2 spine surgeries along with many many hospital admissions. I have long term damage to my eyes resulting in decreased peripheral vision or "tunnel vision" and I also live in intermittant pain. I sought a second opinion last year and they diagnosed me with transverse sinus stenosis which was causing the pressure increase, they put a stent in and fixed the problem and I am (pretty much) back to normal. The downside is that all this has happened during the years of my life where I should've been building a career or a life for myself, I had to drop out of university where I was studying English literature due to ill health
. Thanks to decreased funding for higher education, ie a levels, for over 24 year olds this means that I will have to pay for them myself in full. I have always wanted to be a doctor and being ill has only further solidified that in my mind, I am currently working in a GP practice as a prescription clerk and it has further deepend my desire to train in medicine!! I am looking for help simply because I cant afford it myself, I am looking at studying Maths, Biology, Chemistry and Physics at a level, these are all subjects which I love and succeeded at whilst at school, I cant wait to get back to education and start living again!!!
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