How Cancer Changed My Life

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Imagine having a perfectly normal life, then having everything change in 5 minutes. My life was completely normal... up until my brother was diagnosed with leukemia. Blood cancer. In an instant my life changed from the average life, to a cancer infested one. On December 1st something happened to change my life forever; cancer happened. My brother's signs of cancer started happening Mid-November. These strange things would always start around noon. First, he started to get bad leg pains and sit down for the rest of the day, or else the pain would be to much. Then, he started to always get a fever every day around noon. I was worried, but tried to hide it because no one else appeared to be as worried as I was. My parents decided to take my brother, Noah, to the doctors office to see what was wrong. My …show more content…

I was confused and wondering why she couldn’t just take me home before doing her shopping. She shrugged, "Lets get something for your brother." At this point a was suspicious, but I decided to go along with it. About 45 minutes later I had bought something for my mom, my dad, myself, and my brother. Once we left the store I saw us driving-not towards my house, but away. After a few minutes of me silently wondering what was wrong and why people wont tell me what's happening, we arrived at Mary Bridge Children's Hospital. I didn’t know what was going on, but I assumed something had happened to Noah. After all, he is my only sibling. Once we pulled up and parked at the hospital. We were silent walking into the hospital. Walking into the hospital silently, we went in the elevator to the 6th floor. Walking up to the doors she said "We're here to see Noah Ferguson in room 108" and the doors opened. We walked to my brothers room, then walked in. The first thing I saw Noah laying in a hospital bed, with my mom and dad sitting on a small couch-like thing talking to

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