Nurse Practitioner!
Just about as high of a nurse as you can get, right under a doctor. Be a pediatric N.P. You'll not regret it!
My condolences on your hardship. If your father has only a couple years left, I wouldn't go too far away. it only makes it more difficult to be there. And the moments arent going to come back. My uncle killed himself when i was younger and I know at least a little how that feels. My brother died when hes was 38 from cancer, bad, bad disease. Phixers words are right, it doesnt define you, but it does effect you.
There is one thing that is consistent in life, and that is change. Regardless of what life is dealing you right now, it's garanteed that things will change.
How STUPID is that guy for breaking up with YOU! I had a GF several years ago, I was deeply in love with her. i wanted no more than to spend the rest of my life with her, raise some children and live happily ever after. I thought that there was no way I could ever find any one else. Times changed and she had to move away, her job required it and mine required that I stay. I hoped to make it work, but it just couldnt. Now I have been married for 12 years now to my beautiful wife and have the most awesome and good looking son. They are my life.
Proof here that we dont allways know the reasons for things in our life, but there is something more powerful at play, that we cant control.