Dear Selectivelysocial~
Welcome here and congratulations on being eligible for the nursing degree. After reading your post my concern is a little different from yours. You work, you are a carer, and you are enrolled full time. You said you were already struggling to balance all this. As you are only in the first month of year one the academic work has not really started to ramp up as yet.
While there is a natural tendency to go full time if you can, and get the degree done and finished, do you think it is worth considering part time and taking longer? Even one unit less per semester would lighten the load appreciably - and give you a chance of giving your best to the remaining subjects.
Just as a matter of prudence one normally allows some slack in relation to important tasks, here you look like you are stretched to the limit to start with. Unexpected events do happen.
As for your grandmother's effects and tidying up the house. When my wife died I tried hard to tidy the house, and got rid of a lot of her things. Looking back now I think I made the wrong decision and should have let them disappear gradually as each lived out its purpose in my mind. Do you mind if I ask is your desire to clean house a matter relating to acceptance of your grandmother's passing?
If it is just things, and you do not need the space, then why worry? As you say they have been there a wile already.
Do you have someone you can talk about your uni plans with over the next few days? A uni Student Counselor might be a good choice.
Croix
