How My Criminal Justice Plan Has Changed My Life

Throughout my life, I had continually believed that once I graduated college, I would engage in an action filled career. I wanted to be a police officer, a firefighter or even an undercover FBI agent. I had planned on studying criminal justice, and I took numerous high school classes based on it. Nevertheless, my plan transformed the summer between my junior and senior years. It was my grandma that influenced me to transform my criminal justice plan into a nursing plan. For most of my life, I may not have acknowledged exactly what I wanted to do when I grew up, but I did know that I sought to help people. My grandma had suffered with cancer of her nasal and sinuses for quite some time, but she was finally declared cancer free in 2014. Conversely, this past summer my grandma had experienced abnormal behavior and severe headache type pain. She was taken to Oakwood hospital in Dearborn where she was administered a PET scan. The PET scan lit up on the left side of her temporal lobe. The doctors on her case could not pinpoint the exact cause and this left my family petrified. They stated that the area could be one of three options. It could have been her cancer returning and traveling to the brain, an infection of her sinuses that spread to the brain, or an abnormality of the scan. Furthermore, the only way to find out would be to preform brain surgery. At the time my grandma was in a delirious state and could not grasp what was happening. My grandpa consented to the surgery and she was taken to the operating room. Three agonizing

I may not have decided to be on the streets fighting crime, but I have decided in providing people with the assistance they need to get back to the things they love to do. From one short experience, the medical field has planted a seed in my mind and I have all intentions of letting it grow. I will follow my dreams so that one day, like Michelle, I can support patients