A Pediatrician From The Start Most people do not know Nerliz Maria Guadamuz, and see her as a sixty-five year old woman that they mistake her for an austere and serious old but in reality she is quite the opposite of her personality. In reality she is a very sincere buoyant short old woman with short hair, a chubby nose, a sweet loving smile, blushing cheeks that are red as an apple, who wears slacks and a matching shirt and blazer, and who looks at you with her copper brown eyes. She is known now mostly as “abuela” which is Spanish for “grandma”. Nerliz was born on December 8,1949 in Santa Teresa, Nicaragua and was raised in a poor “barrio” with her family. She is the oldest out of all her fourteen brothers and sisters. The bond she had with her brothers and sisters was inseparable and currently still is. Her mother was a housewife who sold sweets and other goods around the streets to make extra money to support her family and her father was a mineworker for a large company. Her father died from a mine accident when she was at a very young age and barely got to know him. After her father’s death, her family financial condition was very poor and couldn’t afford half of the toys she and her siblings desired to buy. At the end of the day, it did …show more content…
not matter because her mother did as much as she can to make them all buoyant as possible and that was enough for her. Ever since she was a little girl she used to love to see what her Aunt Maria would do at her job in a local medical hospital as a nurse in training for kids. When she was about seven years old, she would always like to go to her aunt’s house to play doctor with her. Nerliz would always listen to what her aunt did at work. She admired her aunt very much when she was little and used to hope to be like her when she grew older. “I remember all the tales she used to tell me at work. I was so fascinated by them and wanted to do what she did when I grew up. She was more of a mother to me than my own since my aunt and I had more in common than I do with my mother,” she chuckles with a joyous glow on her face. Sometimes after school Nerliz used to walk to her aunt’s job to help with whatever the hospital is doing that day. Even in school, she’s always been interested in medical health. In science she was very interested in learning about the human body. All of her school science fair project’s involved with being in the human body system and she would always win first place. On her tenth birthday, she was given a needle from her Aunt Maria so she can practice doing what she loved most.
“I became obsessed with my new needle. I used to practice with oranges and take out the juice with my needle. Then when I practiced for a long period of time I wanted to do it on a real person, so I did,” She smiles in a mischievous way. “The person that was crazy enough to let me inject vitamins on her was my little sister Aleida, I did it right so nothing happened to her,” She laughs loudly. After that some of her neighbors would ask her to inject vitamins into them as a favor, and of course she said yes because she enjoyed doing that. She kept continuing to do that whenever they offered her the
opportunity. When she attended the Institution of Juan José Rodriguez for high school, she enrolled in many classes of health science like AP Anatomy, Physiology, Nutrition class, and AP Phycology and passed all of them with a very high “A” and received many diplomas for Principal Honor Roll and for surpassing all the grades of her classmates. She joined clubs that involved with the medical field and as well went on field trips to hospitals too. At first she didn’t know exactly what type of nurse she wanted to be as she got older, but then it hit her when she was in her junior year of high school. Nerliz’s aunt got a promotion as a pediatrician while she was in high school. “It was a sunny day in Nicaragua while I was walking to my aunt’s job so she can drop me off. When I got there she was in the middle of a check up for two siblings, a boy and a girl. She asked me for help and I did, it was pretty fun that she let me vaccine the little girl and boy and didn’t have any doubts about trusting me with her patients.” Nerliz said with delight. That was the moment where she realized that she wanted to be a pediatrician because she enjoys being a nurse and she loves being with kids. Finally the moment arrived, her senior year when she finally finished high school and gets to study the career she’d always dreamt ever since she was a little girl. During her senior year she didn’t apply to many colleges and universities since she was busy helping out her mother with financial problems because her mother didn’t get to have an education like she does. Luckily, that did not seem to be a problem for Nerliz at the end because many colleges saw her grades and that she was interested in being a part of the medical field some of them requested her one year scholarships, a two years scholarship, most of them gave her even a free scholarship! After graduation, Nerliz denied all the offers that colleges and universities gave her and she decided to apply to the General Hospital of Nicaragua and study the remaining classes she needs to take in order to be a pediatrician. I still couldn’t believe that she turned all those great offers down; some of them were the best schools universities Nicaragua has to offer! “I didn’t feel like being in a banal classroom and retake the classes I passed in high school. I wanted to start my career already! I wanted to feel the rush of excitement for not knowing what’s going to happen inside four walls and a patient. I wanted to start what I do best and that’s helping others in need,” She said with pompously, yet with excitement glooming through her eyes as she speaks. In this hospital they teach students who want to become nurses and doctors inside the actual hospital. The classes were very expensive for her to apply but since they reviewed her permanent records in high school and were very impressed with her test scores and grades, and they offered her a very good scholarship to attend classes in the hospital since her aunt recommended her to study in the hospital. She accepted the scholarship for four years and started the first day of school with excitement. The first day of studying at the hospital, she was amazed of the sight at looking at what was going on that day. “I asked a very nice lady in the office where I supposed to go for my remaining classes and she took me to this room that had teal walls with laboratory desks, medical equipment, a practice dummy, and a big antique looking chalkboard. It looked like a classroom combined with the room doctors vaccinate you in but with a huge glass window that shows what’s going on at the hospital!” she says. As she entered the classroom she already met almost half her class, she said while chuckling, “They were very nice to me and made me feel comfortable to be inside the classroom, some were really cute too but they were too old for me.” They taught her and her classmates many things such as what to do in emergencies, which tubes and liquids are the correct ones to connect to specific machines, what to say to the kids during difficult tasks, or, and much more. Later on during the school year she found the classes to be very easy to study since she took notes and paid close attention to her teacher and passed with a very high grade. On her second year of studying to become a pediatrician, technology was starting to evolve and they were starting to use the computers for mostly everything. This started to become a problem for Nerliz since her family never had enough money to buy her a computer and never learned how to use it correctly. “At that time, we had to type in specific codes into computers to do what we wish to do on the computer for specific tasks. There were no images, all you get to see were a bunch of green letters and numbers in a black screen,” Nerliz describes the computers. While her teacher was teaching the class specific codes to input onto the computer, she did not understand a word her teacher said. She tried as much as she can to understand how to use the computer well; she took extra notes, stayed up studying them and still couldn’t understand it. A few weeks later, she was failing her classes because of computers and there was going to be a final exam that was about computers and she was stressing out a lot with ways to study harder then she needs to. Luckily, a very close classmate of hers named José saw that she was struggling with computers and decided to help her study. José was very good at computers so he gave her easy ways to comprehend what the things on the computer screen mean, and what codes to input into the computer for specific things. After a few weeks of studying with José, she finally got adapted to using the computer. When the final exam arrived, she was already adapted to using computers by then. By learning how to adapt to new changes in the medical field she took her exam and passed it with one of the highest score you can get on that exam. Then later on during her last few years of studying to become a pediatrician, she finally adapted to the computers and was almost better than José. After Nerliz graduated and got her degree, she became a pediatrician in the same old General Hospital of Nicaragua that she studied from. After making many sacrifices in her life to provide opportunities to her kids that she never got when she was young, they are all happily grown up. Her oldest daughter went back to Nicaragua after they traveled to America and became the secretary of a private business company with a girl and a boy who are currently in college; my mother, her second to oldest is a registered nurse in training and works at a dialysis center; her youngest son is an artist, has his own business, a part of the Hialeah Council Department of Art, and has one boy and another on the way. Nerliz is currently living a serene lifestyle with her family but mostly with her grandkids. She has suffered though many difficult stages to help her family and learned to adapt to changes throughout her life. Now she finally earned the happy ending she deserves for being a brave, autonomous, intelligent and stunning women that I’m very proud to call my grandmother.
In this chapter Reyna is reunited with her father, however she is disappointed of their obvious emotional detachment. Even though, she has complicated relationships with both of her parents with the inclusion of this scene the reader learns of the relationship between her and Mago. To Reyna this sisterhood bond is valuable and fundamental to her growth. Due to the emotional distance between Reyna and her parents the siblings foster a stronger bond as an act of resilience against their complex relationships with their parents. Taking in consideration the achievements of Reyna Grande as an author, aside of growing up in poverty and the difficult relationship with her parents is an act of personal resilience. By sharing her story Grande can foster community resilience for those that find representation in her work. Also, due to her vulnerability and the act of letting the reader into her healing process, her narrative creates a sense of empathy in the reader and for those with similar experiences solidarity and
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