Personal Experience Visiting a Cancer Unit at a Hospital

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Sitting in this room, it’s cold; and there’s nothing you can do. Shivering, and wondering “Why am I here today?” The clock going “Tick Tock” “Tick Tock”; time is just the passing by. You are twiddling your fingers. The doctor comes in with unexpected news, and his expression painted upon his face didn’t look too good. There are so many things running through your head, and just when you thought everything was going as expected,----- this happens. You are still seated, and you are in complete bewilderment, who would’ve thought a six letter word could be so deadly!
Every saturday, each patient come as one at St. Jude Children’s Hospital. The children have their own identities that make them unique, and sharing their similarities of their sickness bringing them closer together as a whole. On the outside, it’s just an dull building with vibrant red letters on it, but on the inside there are so many distinctive personalities, joyous smiles, and what about the passionate workers?. The smiles beam upon these children’s faces; new patients, old patients they are all there fighting for their life.. Walking in as an inexperienced person of research of Cancer, I realized that everyone has a story, and sometimes people can’t help the circumstances they are in.
The six letter word intrigues me the most------- CANCER that is. Cancer is a sensitive topic, because it is as fatal as poison. Cancer has no cure at all. Any type of Cancer can kill you basically, and it’s very common to get cancer, because it’s not realized until you visit the doctor’s office. Cancer is not only lethal now in modern day, it has been present for a while now. I look at all the diseases that are starting to become more common in today, and Cancer is the...

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...sting, stressful long day of school. Even though I don’t normally take the timeout to acknowledge people, dealing with these group of kids will help me not only have a better outlook on life, but also fix how I am with other people.
The kids may have different prosperities, but they are all the same, and I would like to spend more time with not only the patients I have already met, but with new people that come to that hospital. Any sickness can give us a different expectation on life, and anytime we get some form of news like we have been diagnosed with something, it blows up in our face. We don’t really start looking about the future till we get news like that. People don’t really know what they had until it’s gone, because tomorrow is not promised. Be a leader. Be a fighter. You weren’t given these challenges if people didn’t believe you can overcome them.

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