In My Heart Everyone in their life, experiences several tragic events. Whether the circumstances be big or small these events change the person both mentally and physically and transforms them into the people they are today. As a result these events in our life make us learn more about ourselves and our lives. There have been a lot of these points in my life, but one that I think that has made me a better person to this day was- in the Summer of 2012, I think I was about 12 years old when I found out my grandmother was diagnosed with Cancer, a type of Cancer known as Breast Cancer. To start with what had happened; my grandmother had sickly been in an out of the hospital for quite a few months. All of the specialist doctors who checked her …show more content…
The cancer that my grandmother was diagnosed with would leave patients dead if not treated immediately, it had metastasized; meaning spread throughout her body. They had started Chemotherapy- a drug used to treat Cancer cells in the body. The drug did help kill the Cancer Braich 2 cells but also killed other types of cells in the body. Overtime, this resulted in damage of her lymph nodes and the water that the lymph nodes would absorb had travelled into her lungs. When I got to know what was wrong with my grandmother I felt like a tree all alone in the woods As this had continued she showed much courage. I could not believe that a person could be so courageous; she had the strength of Hercules and was as brave as a lion. She believed that in the end she would be cured and back to normal. No matter what happened, she still got back up to fight against this disease- she didn't give up hope. She would always say" Taranjot you have to be patient and brave with circumstances like these because you do not know how they would be overcomed". A few weeks later, her health had worsened the doctor advised us to get her hospitalized, when we did. We had to keep her on a life support machine. She didn't know her whereabouts, she was extremely weak. November 29, 2012 holds a significant date in my
She got a new disease called stenotrophomonas, which is very difficult to treat. She was becoming pan-resistant, meaning she was resistant to everything. She had a bacteria called Gram negative. This bacteria has an armor formed around the negative bacteria that makes it harder for normal antibiotics to cure it. She was left with only one option, a lung transplant. For one, it was a very risky option since her body was so weak, and two, she would have to wait until a transplant even came up for her to have. She ended up getting the lung transplant though. Two years after she came home from the operation and she is still alive, but she has to be very cautious every day. She takes a handful of prescriptions twice a day and still picks up bacteria easily. Her mom said she has gotten pneumonia twice already. Her life is now extremely difficult, but she is at least
For example, advanced cancer, or that which has metastasized to different parts of the body, often carries a terminal diagnosis, but it can be treated with chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery. However, this route requires aggressive treatment at the expense of quality of life.
The things that impact you can be bad or good, depending on your situation and how severe they were to you personally. I’ve been through many hardships and great things. Things like, being beaten as a child, raped, enduring racism, placed into the system and taken back out after a year or so, dropped out of college, overall failed at life so far; Went to a job where I worked hard, learned things about life, working hard, and that you can get more out of life if you want it, you can get more, you can be more, that there is an upside to every bad situation, and that other people are just that, real people. These things that have happened to me personally have shaped a lot of my personality and my outlook on life. Things that make you realize that other people go through events and have issues I believe are the things that make you an adult. This event for me was when I was working at EPB and really went through life every day with people of so many different ages and seeing the very real things that trouble them and let them enjoy things. This comradery as well as a want for everyone around you to be better and do better made me realize that everyone is going through the constant struggle I was. It wasn’t anything incredible or anything that made me realize it, but it changes everything on how you look at things and how you take in how other people act. I believe that
That experience basically instilled in me that no matter how good things are going it could change in an instant. I also stopped taking the small things in my life for granted. I live by the phrase, “It could always be worse”. It helps me stay positive in even the most stressful situations. Things don’t affect me like they used to because I can have that positive perception of just about any problem I
The Women by Kristin Hannah follows nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath on her journey starting when she joins the Army Nurse Corps and is shipped overseas to serve as a combat nurse in the Vietnam War. The book occurs during the years 1966 - 1982, in Coronado Island, California and Vietnam. Frankie is born into a wealthy family that enjoys being in the military. Frankie and her older brother have grown up very close, when he is shipped off to war after graduating from the Naval Academy.
Cancer is a method by which normal cells of the body mutate and develop quickly into abnormal cells. As early as the 1880s, the only method of treatment of cancer was a radical surgery. This same method of treatment continued into the 1980s. Before chemotherapy, people were treated with comfort measures, meaning they were given drugs to help relieve the pain until they died. Also, before the 1950s, if you were admitted into a hospital with a cancer that could not be treated with surgery, it was understood you were there to die. In the beginning of the 20th century, treatment for cancer consisted of removing small cancers and those that were easily removed by surgery. Later on, radiation therapy was used to prevent the growth of those tumors that were not removed during surgery; then, chemotherapy was used to remove even smaller tumors that could not be removed by surgery or treated by radiation.
Many pivotal moments appear in a human beings life to change the way that individual thinks. All human experiences shape the way a person becomes. The death of my 20 year old second cousin changed my perspective on life. It was not because he was close to me or had a huge impact on my life, but because such a young life ended so suddenly. I got to experience how that impacted and even changed certain people. I came to the realization that all those stories on the news actually happen to real life people. These stories seem so unimaginable, but from that point on, I realized that anything can happen to anyone in the simple blink of an eye. I learned that although every human envisions certain things to occur in their lifetime, many aspects cannot
According to Cancer.org, cancer is the generic name for over a hundred diseases. There are cancers for literally every part of the body. Cancer starts by abnormal cells growing out of control. Usually, if the cancer is caught earlier in the stages, it is treatable and a person would have a good chance at surviving. Unfortunately, if the cancer is untreated for a longer duration of time, the survival rate dwindles. There are types of this abnormal cell growth that can be potentially more fatal than others. There is an astonishing amount of different cancers to delve in to. The chance of survival depends on the type, as well as the amount of time it has gone untreated.
Cancer. Six simple letters forming the most complex word a seven-year-old could ever comprehend. I couldn’t even spell it, let alone know what it meant. All I knew at the time was that it was killing my father. I had lost my grandmother and both grandfathers by that time. Loss was something I had already grasped. My dad was dying and the one person in my family that I desperately needed, my brother, was off deployed across the world. It was incredibly difficult to not have him around during this time and everything was going downhill faster than the speed of sound.
"Ring, ring", I wondered who was calling me at this time of evening. "Yes; o.k.; Yes, I'll be there", I said before hanging up the phone. What was wrong, I wondered all that evening that the doctor wanted me to come in to discuss my lab results? I had never been asked to come in to the office after doing blood tests before; when receiving a call as this the mind plays tricks on the person and wild things start popping up in the head.
I have a lot of people that make my life a billion times better. Those people are my friends, family, and God. An event that has made my life better is Miracle camp. I went to Miracle camp the summer of 2015. I went with Delaney, Brielle, and Kylie. I was so excited to go and it was such an eye opening experiencing. To tell the truth I haven’t always been close to God and read my bible a lot. When I went to Miracle Camp I felt like I had opened a door. Miracle camp made me want to learn more about God. Miracle Camp also made me grow my relationship with him and I can’t thank that camp enough. That camp really made me see what I need to be focusing on which is God. I was disappointed last year when I couldn’t go, but this year I am going!! I can’t wait to go back there reconnect with God. Miracle camp and my friends and family and God are thing that make/made my life a better life.
A person does not experience many events that shape their life in a large way, whether it be for better or worse. I have had just one major situation that has sculpted me into the person that I am today. In February of 2008, I was diagnosed with a life changing disease; it would relieve me of the agony I had been experiencing for as long as I could remember, but also restrict my diet for the rest of my life.
Everyone has a story, a pivotal moment in their life that started to mold them into the person they are today and may even continue to mold you to the person that you will become, I just had mine a little bit earlier than others. When I was three years old my brother became a burn survivor. It may seem too early for me to remember, but I could never forget that day. Since then, I have grown, matured and realized that what my family and I went through has been something of a benefit to be and an experience that has helped me in deciding what I want to do with the rest of my life.
When I was younger, I remember feeling as though I lived in a bubble; my life was perfect. I had an extremely caring and compassionate mother, two older siblings to look out for me, a loving grandmother who would bake never ending sweets and more toys than any child could ever realistically play with. But as I grew up my world started to change. My sister developed asthma, my mother became sick with cancer and at the age of five, my disabled brother developed ear tumors and became deaf. As more and more problems were piled upon my single mother’s plate, I, the sweet, quiet, perfectly healthy child, was placed on the back burner. It was not as though my family did not love me; it was just that I was simply, not a priority.
Many changes for the good and some were bad but, there were some learning experiences that help make me a better person. The events in my life, was dealing with the Birth and The Death of my first daughter.