A Beekeeper's Wife (to Bee)

Last Thursday I took an practical exam on my sterile technique. I practiced so hard on learning it to perfection and the girls from school and I spent many hours at each others houses role playing and going over this checklist over and over and over again and I thought I knew the skill inside and out.

I was the last tester of the day and I was so extremely nervous. I performed the skill and let out a huge sigh of relief - I was finally finished. I headed to my sisters house and their a surprise awaited me. My mom and sister came down for the night. So after visiting for a couple hours I headed home and ran straight for the computer. I turned it on, checked my email and to my horror there was an email in my inbox. It read ' Rebecca we regret to inform you that you have failed your exam and need to retest next Tuesday." I burst into tears and could not stop crying. I can't remember the last time I failed an exam.

Over the next weekend, I relived the test over and over and over again. Where did I mess up? What did I forget? I sat for hours staring at the list trying to find the spot were I made the fatal error, but I could not see an obvious error.

Today, I went to my intermediate nursing skills class and I checked the schedule for my retest time and I didn't see my name. So I asked my instructor when I was to retest. She opened her book and started flipping through the pages looking slightly confused.

'Oh dear' she said "It seems we made a mistake... you weren't suppose to get an email.. you passed the exam on the first try."

Say What?!?!

I am so happy I don't have to rewrite but I am a little upset that I wasted a weekend worrying and studying for a rewrite that isn't necessary.

Oh well..