Good morning! I need to send a letter to my professors and executive staff at my Nursing University explaining my desire to temporarily withdraw from my career but leaving a window open to return next semester or as soon as possible. In that letter I am giving the details of my retirement. I need to correct the entire text for spelling/grammatical errors and change what is necessary to give it a better meaning.
My name is Edison Gomez, a student in the 6th Semester of the BSN Nursing Program. I am writing this letter with the intention of notifying you of my withdrawal from this current semester due to a series of complications that have arisen involuntarily. During the first weeks of September 2023, my wife began to show health problems related to the breast area. After doing some breast studies, the terrible diagnosis of breast cancer stage 2 was made. There were many visits to different doctors because it was spreading quickly, worry and nerves entered our home. We do not have close relatives, they all live in Puerto Rico and Europe, so we do not have help especially because we have 2 minor daughters, 5 and 15 years old respectively.
In our attempt not to create worry in our daughters we have tried to remain calm, but stress and uncertainty surround us, on many occasions, we feel confusion and loneliness. My career is a priority, I left my full-time job to dedicate myself fully to my studies, I prepared myself financially to spend 1 and a half years without working to focus on my studies and have enough money to pay out of pocket for the last 3 semesters What I need to finish my degree, but we did not count on this situation for my wife. I have visited Professor Portal's office on several occasions since the beginning of the semester due to my lack of concentration and time to be able to study and he listened to me in a very empathetic and cordial manner and gave me recommendations to overcome these obstacles, but it has been impossible to overcome this family dilemma.
I would like to take the opportunity to apologize for the absences I have had but honestly, I have had to be by my wife's side accompanying her because she has to go to the hospital several times and she needs my help right now because her body is very weak. She has received many treatments and that is why her weakness.
I take this opportunity to let you know my greatest desire to continue and finish my nursing career, being a nurse is much more than a goal, I have dedicated time, effort and dedication to move forward despite the difficulties, this is one of the worst moments what I have been through in life, Cancer knocked on the door and it is devastating just thinking about it. I only ask for your understanding of this horrible and very unfortunate situation that we are dealing with together as a family.
We have all our hopes placed in God and science to overcome all this. I ask you to please help me rejoin as soon as possible to continue my nursing program. My wife is in the best hands right now, I managed to get family members to come live with us to help us in the coming weeks. That means that by January I will have that family help that I need so much to take care of my wife and so I can focus fully on my nursing career and thus be able to help and move my family forward.
I thank you in advance for your understanding and help with this painful process that came without warning and that unfortunately fell to us today.
