Thankfully most of us don't have disabilities or diseases that could ruin your life. There have been thousands of discoveries of diseases and we can't have an outcome of who gets the disease. Have you ever had a person in your life go through an open heart surgery. Not many people have ever had a person in their life have a critical heart disease. My uncle’s son has a critical heart condition where he had to get many open heart surgery when he was just a little kid. Lajerric Keyes is a 9 year old boy with a critical heart disease called tetralogy of fallot. Lajerric’s biggest dream and wish has always been to meet Ladainian Tomlinson, a MVP running back for the jets in 2006. Ladainian Tomlinson saw that this kid was suffering and decided that …show more content…
Make A Wish got founded in Phoenix, Arizona on April 29, 1980. The founders of the foundation are Scott Stahl, Frank Shankwitz, and Linda Bergendahl-Pauling. This life changing organization all started when a kid named Chris was diagnosed with Leukemia and his dream job was to be a police officer. The Make-a-Wish foundation believes that everyone should get the chance to have a special moment in their life even if their different. This foundation wants to inspire the kids that have difficult lives to always believe that they can do anything. The foundation's goal is to make a special moment in their life that they will always remember and look back on when they grow up. They make wishes all throughout the United States for kids 2 ½ years old to 18 years old. Many people around in the community want to help and volunteer to make wishes to kids that need loving support. Anybody who wants to help can volunteer and make a wish come true in approximately 2-3 …show more content…
I believe that the foundation makes very heartwarming and special moments for kids that need it the most in life. The Make-a-Wish foundation makes a wish every 35 minutes on average. I also believe that the foundation should keep on helping because without it kids will grow up without a special moment in their life to look back at. Make-a-Wish is a very helpful organization because many people volunteer to make a wish come true. I think that the people who volunteer chose this foundation because they want to be a part of a project that helps kids grow and persevere through their
...faith. Even though my friend lost his battle with esophageal cancer, he raised over $50,000 for the ACS with the help of our community, family, and friends. He wanted to repay ACS for what they did for him and wanted nothing more than to save someone else from what he was had to go through. ACS stayed by his side until the end giving him hope and support, and for that, I feel they are a remarkable organization.
There are many illnesses that my family members are exposed to which hinder the lives thousands. Many of my relatives deal with some type of disease or sickness
The reason is they are impacting globally. I will not deny that coming from a third world country which is the Philippines, has an impact on my decision to pick an international nonprofit organization. Sure enough, my country has benefited from these type of organizations. Save the Children is impacting not just in a small scale, they are making a difference to the world. Moreover, this organization was ranked 26th and rated 4 star among top 100 nonprofit organizations around the world. That alone did not convince me, I dug
We advocated for people with intellectual disabilities, a person has certain limitations in mental functioning and in skills such as communicating, taking care of him or herself, and social skills. During the course of this project I learned a lot about the subject, like Down syndrome, fragile X syndrome, and phenylketonuria are caused by genetic conditions. I learned that all the money that we have raised and people donated goes all towards the Special Olympics, to help give those kids to have the same opportunities to develop physical fitness and share personal skills with their families.
Having an illness can have an affect on an individual either physically or mentally. Anyone can be a victim of a mental illness such as, children 's, adults and senior citizens, it is not rare. There are hundreds of different types of mental illnesses and with more to be discovered in the near future. Struggling to accomplish a certain assignment or not being able to speak properly, can all be signs of someone who is suffering from a mental illness. Major depression, autism, anxiety and Schizophrenia, are just some disorders that can affect an individual’s state of mind, and over time if not not cured, it could become highly dangerous, but medications and therapy play a key role in controlling it. For some individuals enjoying life becomes
The Make A Wish foundation first started in 1980 when a 7 year old boy named Christopher Greicius was diagnosed with Leukemia and was told by doctors that he would die soon. Christopher had always wanted to be a police officer. Officer Tommy Austin had heard about Christopher so they met and became friends. Officer Tommy wanted to lift Christopher’s spirits so he decided to make Christopher a police officer for a day.
However having an illness does not have to stop you from succeeding. For example, Helen Keller lost her sight and hearing at a very young age but she was able to overcome all the obstacles that stood in her way, and learned to read and write. She later went to college and became the first deaf and blind person to earn a bachelor’s degree.
Now I realize that the heart-sick are not always curable by a new heart or a Dacron tube.
Before I was even born, my mother had a best friend named Bob. He was a pretty well known lawyer at the time, and a very successful man. He had two children, a wife, and many friends who knew and loved him. My mom and Bob had been the closest friends for around five years, up until the point where he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at the age of fifty. He left all of that behind when he passed away from the painful cancer that had consumed his body. For the first time in her life, my mother knew what it was like to lose a best friend, and she lost him in the worst way possible. Just like Bob, many other adults, children, and elderly people have suffered through so many diseases, without knowing a cure, until now. Today, I hope to persuade
Some cried; some were in pain. Some were scared; some dragged medical equipment in their wake, while others pushed walkers. All of us had a diverse range of adversities, all searching for answers, some more urgently than others. And although I still could not play goalie in soccer or attend my senior class rafting trip, I was able to swim competitively and play clarinet in the band, while the boy next to me had to pull around an oxygen tank. Unlike many others, I could still attend school. Patients with my disease are typically too frail, immunocompromised, or on a list for a lung transplant, never mind get the opportunity to go to college. So, getting back to Einstein, relatively speaking, I am definitely
The doctors told my mom that without a transplant I wouldn’t live past four years old. Slowly the days turned into months and the months passed into another year and I had beaten the odds. I was still sick and in the hospital all the time and I faced an uncertain future. The doctors then told us that I would be lucky if I made it to twelve years old; that I wouldn't be able to run, swim and be as active as other kids and that I wouldn't have a normal life.
I had the capacity to struggle with a learning disability from such a very young period of my life and still power through high school, leaving with Honors. With inspiring individuals such as Stephen Hawking, it has been proven to show even the most debilitating circumstances a person may carry, although may seem hopeless at first glance, can overcome any obstacle placed in their path and can perhaps become one of the world’s next leading psychologists or doctors. This can happen to any individual even if they feel they would have no impact on the world; they most definitely
My story began in February 2010, a fateful day that has since changed the meaning of a “disability” for me. My parents had been involved in a severe car accident that left them both partially disabled. Hearing the doorbell ring at four in the morning, only to see my grandfather brought upon such great shock. I am grateful every single day that they are still alive and with us children, and that they did not suffer more than they did.
Make-A-Wish Foundation is non-government organization that grants the wishes of children aged three to 18 years old who get life-threatening medical conditions in their lives such as lung cancer. However, it is difficult for wish to happen in their situation.
In life you tend to be hit by surprise with many different things. Some things are positive, some negative, and even more unexplainable. Illness is something that I have dealt with in multiple ways, from several different angles of my life. This statement I would say is true for most people. This is the surprising part I mentioned. Whether it be an infection of some type, chronic disease, or cancer these are things majority of people will come in contact with in their lifetime. Indirectly, I have come in contact with these disease processes, already in my twenty short years of life. Hardly can I say that any of these experiences have been positive, but a lot have ended on a positive note. Some are still in the book, so to say, as negative