An inspirational story is my sister.

In her early 30's she finally realized that she wanted to be a doctor.  She had a BA and not a BSc, so she had to go back and get one previous to med school.  But it had been so long since she had any science in her background, she was required to take highschool science courses (chemistry, biology, etc.)

She then got her BSc. standing, and wrote her med school exams.  She scored well.  Not great, but well.  But she couldn't get into a med school in our country, so she had to do it through a US school.

She went and did it.  She's wrapping up her internship now.  Just after she had two children.

I couldn't be prouder of her.  Makes me want to call her.