Experiences? How can some experiences influence a person’s life so drastically, while others do not leave a hint of dust? I myself have had one of those experiences that has changed my life, a heart condition. This condition has made me jump over various problems since I was born. From heart surgeries to activities I could not participate in, these obstacles has transformed me into someone who can take on numerous tasks without becoming stressed, I hope to continue to be that type of person in the future.
My heart condition started the day I was born, July 8, 1998. Born at the Scottsdale Shea Hospital. The nurses and doctors examined me to make sure I was a healthy baby boy. However, they realized I had a leaky pulmonary heart valve that
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needed to be surgically worked on as soon as possible. So at the suitable age of less than hour and half old I took my first helicopter ride over to St. Jude’s Hospital where I got my heart valve to stop leaking. After my surgery I was stuck in the hospital for two weeks before I could even be able to see my home for the first time. Both my parents switched off, each living at the hospital for some of what seemed like the longest days of their lives. When those two weeks were up I was released from the hospital ready to venture and observe the new wonders of the giant world my little self-had gotten into. Years had passed and I was as healthy as any young child.
Playing outside, getting into cabinets around the house, and messing with our cats. At this point in my life I was still a little nervous about going to my cardiologist and the hospital, but at such a young age most kids are afraid of the doctor and hospital. Every appointment I went to in my early elementary school years I would become extremely nervous. Arriving at the waiting room I would wait with thoughts rushing through my head of what the doctor would say, whether or not I need a surgery or an MRI that coming year. For several years nothing had to be done. Until one day my cardiologist said I needed an open heart surgery. I was frightened to the thought of having to be put under. The surgeons cutting me open, cracking my ribs, and changing my old valve with a pork hind valve. My parents however would always comfort me telling me that, “to not think about it you will be under for the whole time and we will be there when you wake up.” After waking up from my surgery in the Phoenix Children’s Hospital I was relieved to find out the procedure went perfectly fine, ten years, the doctors said the heart valve would work until another discussion on surgery would occur. I was now aware that I could need another surgery in the future, but the next time I would not be as
afraid. It has now been ten years that I have lived with an even stronger heart. Unstressed about the next step. From all the procedures that I have been through in my life because of my leaky valve I have learned to sit back and enjoy the ride. Not worrying about what every little event in life. Not the ones in the future or the past, just the current moments. I thoroughly enjoy having this ability to live life with this attitude. It has helped me consistently in school, my medical life, and with just meaningless little events that would completely aggravate others for long periods of time. At this moment that I am writing this essay I think of what my personality in life would be without my experiences that I have overcame. I hope to continue to be an easy going person in my adult life.
When I think about the moments leading up to my diagnosis I remember feeling weak, confused, shaky and sleepy. I did not notice that I had began sleeping throughout the day. My body was craving soft drinks like soda and juice but not food. Days would go by and I eventually fell into a deep slumber that I found myself only waking up from to use the bathroom. I knew something was wrong and that if I did not get to a hospital it would get worse. Nothing could have prepared me for the life changing diagnosis I would receive.
There are various changes that can occur in an individual’s life. Some variations are very little and would not affect your lifecycle very greatly. Nevertheless, other events could be very significant and could change a person’s entire life, such as marrying, giving birth to the baby, or losing someone special. The important event that transformed my life is coming to the United States of America to get education and to study. When I first arrived in this country, I comprehended that an incredible change would happen in my life both mentally and physically. After living more than one year in the United States, I definitely believe that moving to the United States is an advantageous change for me. This change offers me an opportunity to live a healthy lifestyle as well as a new way of thinking that are significant for me and the most importantly it provided me a better education in a simple way.
I had just finished facing my fears watching the metallic needle slip so seamlessly under my skin into the veins of my nervous, clammy hand. Hugging my Mom like it could have been the last time I saw her, seeing my dad's face stern and worried. I wheeled down the hall into this operating room, white was all I saw, a bed in the middle for the surgery to go down. As I lay on the bed waiting to be put under I remember seeing the blue masks of the people to be operating on me, I had to put all my trust in them, trusting someone you seen for less than 5 seconds with your life. Absolutely terrifying. The nurse slipping the fluid into my IV as I lay on my back looking up at the white ceiling, this cold sensations rushed over me. Then suddenly, I was out.
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This all happened when I was very little, as soon as I learned how to talk and understand things. At the time, all I knew was that my older brother Tyler had a very bad heart. He would come home with a stethoscope and a cool balloon device which I figured out was used to open up his heart. I remember reading stories about Curious George going to the doctor so Tyler would get used to the fact he was going to have another heart procedure. I mean, I was just five years old. How does a five year old even comprehend what the heart is let alone what’s happening to her brother? So much of this was beyond my comprehension, yet it all seemed so normal. My side of normal was doctor visits, procedures every year in Miami that I couldn’t go to, and seeing a ton of pictures of his procedures! I remember him eating a lot of food to have him gain weight so he could have the procedure. He hated it so much. Even the scar on his chest seems so normal. I don’t even look twice when I see it. Yet if I see another person with a scar, my eyes are drawn to it.
This matters a great influence on my life. The experience has moulded and coloured my whole life. It helps me nerve myself to face the difficulties. I am not scared of difficulties, and I have greater confidence to face
There are things in life which none of us can control, in my life there have been many such things. In trying to write this essay I have a difficult time trying to decide what I am going to write about. I have many ideas running through my head,and I am trying to decide what makes me who I am, what makes me special. Soren Kierkegaard said, "Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards." I have a difficult time understanding my life even as I look back, I am unsure of why things happened and what effect certain events had on my life. I say this because I know nothing else, I have nothing to compare my life to. I am who I am and I have always been this way.
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So that was a constant struggle in my life, I couldn’t preform to my full potential in sports, I couldn’t breathe correctly and I developed asthmatic symptoms. But the worst of all was the teasing, people would call me “hole-boy” “meteor boy” “The kid with the hole in his chest” and other things a little kid shouldn’t have to hear. I couldn’t take my shirt off without feeling everyone’s attention in the room become immediately directed towards my chest. I had to deal with that until I was 12, which is the age the doctor requested for us to wait until I could get operated. So once that time came around I was scheduled to be operated on July 10, 2010. Now that was brutal...
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