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My name is Mandie Hemmings. I ws born in Massachusetts on April 27, 1982. Moved to Maine when I was just a baby. Moved around a lot when I was young. My parents bought a home in Livermore and that's were I spent 5th-12th grade. I actually liked school. had perfect attendance all through middle school and possibly my freshmen year. I started hanging out more with friends in my sophomore year. I was in band and track and loving everything about school. I hit my senior year in high school and I thought just a couple months to go. I was pulled aside and told that I didn't have enough credits to graduate. So, I was put in a classroom to try to make up some of the work that I thought I had already done. I attended my senior prom and went on my senior class trip and really thought I was going to graduate. 2 weeks before graduation I was told I wasn't gonna graduate with my class. I was speechless. I thought I was caught up by doing extra courses and no one had indicated to me that I wouldn't graduate. I was so upset. I left school that day and never went back. I moved to South Portland with my brother and got a job working at the Christmas Tree Shop working nights stocking shelves. The night my class graduated I was working. I was so crushed. I bounced from job to job for a few years until I ended up back in Livermore. I worked up there and thought to myself maybe Ill go check out adult ed and see what I can do to get my GED. I went in and I was tested over and over and I got to a certain area on the test were I had no clue. There was no one around to help me out so I tried doing it myself and came to the conclusion that this wasn't for me. Left that day and never went back. I kept bouncing again from job to job. Every job I get I master and then I get bored and leave. I never did anything I loved I just did it for a pay check. My parents dad especially was on me all the time about when am I gonna do something with myself. I kept saying I will I promise. He kept asking me when. I just kept blowing it off telling myself I really didn't need an education I can just keep doing what I was doing. I had a great job in Saco at a daycare. I thought to myself I have found the job I would stay at forever. I worked there for over 2 years, had an apartment on the beach, tons of friends, was totally loving life. Then the economy took its toll on the daycare. Parents were pulling there kids out and my boss had called a meeting. We sat in the meeting and brain stormed how we could all keep our hours and possibly get some kids in there. Nothing worked so she ended up cutting our hours. I lost my apartment and had no were else to go except back to my brothers. Gave my 2 weeks and said my good byes. Moved up here to Gray with my brother. Got a job at Dunkin Donuts and was then again getting bored with my job. Ended up quitting there and finding a job at a convenience store. I cant say that I didn't like it but once I knew how to do everything then again I found myself bored. I applied for the assistant managers position thinking that would give me change and more things to do. I waited months to hear back from them. In the meantime I was at work one morning and I was in the cooler stocking it and I bent over to pick up a box and I felt a pinch in my back. Wow did that hurt for a split moment. I stood up and it went away. Didn't think much about it. Went about my business shut the store down and went home for the night. I woke up the next morning and I was hurting. My lower back hurt so bad. I really just thought I had slept wrong. Moved around a little bit and got ready to go to work, went to work was telling everyone how bad my back hurt. Couple weeks went by and my back pain worsened. had my sister n law bring me to the ER, they looked at me and said that they couldnt do anything for me and sent me packing. That night I was thinking back when did my back start hurting. It took a while but then it dawned on me. That day in the cooler. So, I let my manager know and she sent me to the doctor and I was put on work restrictions and going to physical therapy. Was working on my restrictions and going to physical therapy and for some reason my back seemed to be getting worse. My friend looked at me and said your coming with me and were going to the hospital. She brought me in to a different ER and after being there for 4 hours my doctor told me that she wanted me back in the morning for an MRI. Went in the next morning and found out I had a herniated disk and that I needed to go into surgery. A week later I was in surgery. A month later I went back to the doctors were there sent me once again to an MRI and then again found out I blew my disk out again. Back into surgery I went. A month later they were giving me steroid injection shots in my back. They haven't worked so Im waiting on the whats next. So thats how I got to were i am now. Now Im in school going for my diploma and hopefully I'll have it by January 1st. I have always wanted to be a nurse. There are s many different areas of nursing that I dont think that I would get bored. my mother is a CNA and I see what she does and that bores me so I have always wanted to work for a hospital and nursing is my number one goal. Since Im out of work and nothing else to do schooling seems like the best thing to do. I have promised myself that I would make myself proud and everyone around me proud by getting my diploma. I found Lisa and she made me feel right at home and she insured me that if I ever got stuck or had a problem I could go to one of my teachers or to her and that I would never be alone during this process and that made me feel comfortable and very welcomed. So far I have no regrets about my decision and am hoping come the end of December I will finally be a High School graduate. Then I could move on with my schooling and become what I have always wanted to be and thats a successful RN helping people in need and giving back to people who have helped me. Im aiming at having a career and loving it by the age of 35. As time goes by I will update my wiki.