I used to post on here a lot about my mum … I *was* a student at the time.

[tomissmymum]

She has a rare form of early onset dementia and I got a lot of support from MNerrs.

I was in uni and desperately clinging onto my degree, and I got a huge amount of hell from you all to try and stay in my studies. You helped me when I was suicidal, all sorts. You kept me calm the night Mum was diagnosed and many many nights before and after.

Today I graduated with a 2:1 and merit in clinical theory. I’ve got a full time job, I’m six weeks in and loving it.

I am so hugely, enormously thankful.

That’s wonderful, what guts you have!

Oh well done! Mumsnet at its best!

I am so pleased for you

Congratulations, what an incredible achievement with what you were going through. Well done, you can do anything now. X

Congratulations! Well done you 👏

Huge Congratulations. Well done. Not easy when you are dealing with what you were dealing with. Very proud of you. 🎉

Wahooooo - well done you.

Life is absolutely shite at times. But you've shown what resilience can do.

I wish you every luck going forward

Aw mannnn! This is lovely! Well done YOU!

Very well done

Excellent!! Well done 👏

⭐🍾

Awh well done! You should be enormously proud of yourself! Congratulations

and well done mumsnet if only all the Internet was so positive! Imagine the world

What an amazing person you must be. To reach out for help when you needed it; to be able to listen and learn and adapt to impossible circumstances; to be resilient and cope with so much change. I hope you are really, really proud of yourself.

Congrats, OP! You should be very proud of yourself and everything you have achieved so far. I am sure life is only going to get better for you. x

What a lovely post. Very many congratulations.

Well done, that's awesome

Thank you so much; you were all awesome at the time and since! I remember posting on really horrendous nights and just knowing someone was listening even if they were hundreds of miles away was such a huge help.

Op huge congratulations and the biggest of hugs 💐🫂💐

I remember some of your threads. Believe it or not I was actually thinking about you just the other day and wondering how you were getting on so I'm really glad you posted. Many congratulations to you on your graduation and all the very best with your new job and the future.

I'm sending you so many congratulations and so much pride! I wish for you to carry this feeling always, and know that good things do come out of dark places

Congratulations OP, well done!

I relate a little. I was 23 and in my final year of uni when my mum had a severe stroke which left her quite disabled and completely changed all our lives. I'm now in my early 50s and I still feel grief for the version of my mum I lost when I was in my 20s.

Like you, I pushed on and finished my degree and carried on with my career plans and I'm very glad I did. But I know how difficult it must have been for you, so well done, I hope you and others in your life are super proud of you.

Love this! Congratulations 🥂

Bloody amazing!! You did it!! YOU!!! And well done for seeking some support from others, we may be strangers but we're always there for supporting people in all sorts of situations - you done good my lovely!!! 🤩🥂🍾 be proud of yourself

Congratulations 🥳🥳🥳 well done for sticking with it in the face of adversity, you must be a strong and resilient woman! So pleased for you 💐

Congratulations! That is really inspiring. Thank you for sharing.🥂

Massive congratulations!! The strength and determination you have showed are something else. Wishing you every single success and joy in your job. Well done!