Anesthesia Research Paper

Throughout my childhood, my choice of career changed like the direction of the wind. Daydreams as an astronaut, actor, or musician were all too common, with me never feeling satisfaction from doing that line of work for the rest of my life. However, during the summer of my freshman year in high school, that would change as I felt at an early age the temporal fragility of life that can take us down unexpected paths we would have not previously considered. During a routine examination, a large mass was discovered on the back of my cranium. Deemed a harmless fatty tissue, it was scheduled to be removed through surgery that would last no more than forty-five minutes. Reassurances from my surgeon as I stared up from the operating table that my situation was quite common quelled any fears I had about my outcome. However, those moments

The surgery dragged on for more than six hours as my parents sat nervously in the waiting room, totally unaware of my status. Upon closer inspection, the harmless fatty tissue was revealed to be a rare, malignant tumor that had slowly corroded my skull and was several months away from leaking into my brain. My surgeon was as blindsided as my parents, with the realization falling upon all of us that the complexity of my situation had increased tenfold. Solemn, I imagined how my high school experience would change as chemotherapy, hospital visits, and piles of medication would become my new routine. I waited two agonizing months for pathological reports stating whether tumor cells had metastasized