Personal Narrative Essay: My Highs And Lows In My Life

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Throughout my life I have had highs and lows; these have shaped my development throughout my 18 years and have made me the person I continue to be today. Although I’ve had highs and lows in my entire life, nearly all of my “lows” started on April 2nd, 2010. On April 2nd, 2010 my dad was diagnosed with lung cancer. I didn’t know it at the time, but from that moment on I only had 286 days left with my dad. I only had 286 days until my world was turned upside down.
My dad was always a child at heart. We would play pranks on my mom, and eat ice cream at crazy hours of the night. My dad had a laugh that was contagious, he could fill a room with positivity just with a single smile. When I was a kid he would take the cardboard from the empty paper towel rolls and wrapping paper and …show more content…

Eventually my dad 's cancer spread to his brain. It was the night before his first brain surgery, after begging and pleading we convinced my mom to let me spend the night with him at Dana Farber hospital. We got away with ordering ice cream, cookies, and other desserts for dinner that night after mom went home. We stayed up most of the night eating snacks and watching the Harry Potter Marathon on ABC family. When we did fall asleep, it wasn’t for long, nurses would come into my dad 's room every hour to take his temperature and vital signs. We woke up snuggled up together on his hospital bed, to a surprising question. One of the nurses came in the room to “prep” my dad for the day 's events. Little did we expect, the “prep” was shaving off all of my dad 's hair. The nurse could tell that the idea of my father looking any different scared me, so she let me do the honor of shaving most of his hair off. The nurse was right in the fact that it made me more comfortable seeing my dad 's appearance change rather than showing up one day and him not looking like my dad

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