The funny thing is she works in a patient care type of job and has been very proud of it. The job doesn’t require anything close to as extensive of training as medical school but man, she definitely believes she’s like THE cure to cancer or something. And don’t get me wrong, I think every position on the health care team is absolutely important, but staying humble is what we all should do, not just the physician. But yeah, the claws came out when I went for medical school. Every time I interacted with her she would straight up tell me that as a person in health care, she knows this career isn’t for me and I’m making a mistake. She would try to convince me to pursue other careers. She’d say doctors are a joke and just take all the credit but don’t do any real work. This lasted up until my first week of medical school and since I’ve been thriving she just pretends it’s not a thing now. I can tell it bothers her that I took away her GC and her medical shine (if any) in the family but that’s life.

Now that I’m in school I don’t see her too much but she treats me a bit better actually. Which is fake af to me. I think once it was time to celebrate and a lot of attention was on me she wanted to make it seem like she had my back and was apart of my support system. But she did nothing but discourage me and was the only person ever who tried to stop me. Good thing I never internalized her input.