I'll share something personal. My grandma had a sudden MCA stroke last December, on a Friday. Straight into a coma of which she never ended up waking up from. The following week I was supposed to have 3 days of in house exams, followed by 2 days of nbmes of which one was the Neuro nbme.

We had also just studied and reviewed strokes, etc. My parents actually kept my grandma alive on life support for me to finish the entire week of exams, and fly across the country to be with them when they pulled it, and I was so thankful.

But every fucking brain scan on my exams triggered the hell out of me, on Monday. I spoke to my parents, crying, that night and they told me something I'm still carrying with me to this day. They just said everyone knew my grandma was my biggest supporter. 3rd grade education and she had made it in life, and always been a huge part of ours. And I was doing this for her as much as for myself and her dream was to see me graduate one day. I creamed the rest of the week and flew out to be with her as we pulled the tube.

To this day I keep a picture of her MCA stroke scan on my computer desktop. It helps me when I get distracted, idk even if it's weird. I'm over the mourning phase although some times I see someone in the hospital looking like her and I almost start crying haha

This is for her though. Hope it helps you