{"id":10705,"date":"2026-02-21T20:16:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T20:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/?p=10705"},"modified":"2026-02-21T20:16:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T20:16:23","slug":"i-refuse-to-drop-college-to-take-care-of-my-sick-sister-i-am-not-her-nurse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/?p=10705","title":{"rendered":"I Refuse to Drop College to Take Care of My Sick Sister, I Am Not Her Nurse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">I\u2019m Ashley. I worked three jobs throughout high school just to get into nursing school. I earned a scholarship, saved every dollar, and finally felt like I was on the path to the life I wanted. Then, my sister got sick. I care about her, but my parents sat me down and told me I needed to put my education on hold to care for her full-time.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">My dad said it calmly, like it was a minor request: \u201cSchool can wait.\u201d But I know it can\u2019t\u2014my scholarship won\u2019t stay if I leave. When I refused, the conversation turned into an ambush. My dad slid an envelope across the table. Inside were notices that they had canceled my phone plan, withdrawn as guarantors for my student housing, and revoked access to the car I used for work and class.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">He looked at me almost smugly and said, \u201cWithout housing and transportation, you won\u2019t last the semester anyway.\u201d It wasn\u2019t about my sister\u2019s health anymore; it was about forcing me into submission by destroying my independence. I love my sister, but I am not her nurse, and I refused to set my own life on fire to keep everyone else warm. Now, I\u2019m scrambling to find new housing and transportation, determined to prove that my future isn&#8217;t something they can just take away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m Ashley. I worked three jobs throughout high school just to get into nursing school. I earned a scholarship, saved every dollar, and finally felt like I was on the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,22,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-inspiration","category-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10707,"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10705\/revisions\/10707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}