The nature of life leads to hopes and dreams The process of life begins with a wish. Throughout childhood we are constantly asked what we wish to become when we grow up. Usually the answer is a Doctor or Vet. This was my answer as well. Then I became ill and my life suddenly was altered. I became the girl who was gone almost everyday due to an elusive illness. My illness changed who I was and made me want to help others the way I was helped. I wish to become a Nurse. The process of getting there was not easy. I had to deal with tough things such as missing school, working through my illness, and those things led me to my aspirations today. Present day I aspire to become a nurse. Before my illness was the prevailing thing in my life I had little idea of what I wanted to do for …show more content…
a living.
That all changed. During the Fall of two thousand eleven I noticed I got sick with the flu or a cold easily. I was diagnosed with mono in the winter of that same year. I never fully recovered from the mono and noticed other strange things happening to my body. Many pediatrician's thought that I was depressed or had sinus infections combined with a bad cold. One night I was rushed into the Emergency room with a heart rate of one hundred and fifty nine. The Doctor on call that night referred me to another Doctor who has seen all of the symptoms I was having. I was diagnosed with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome or P.O.T.S. This is an autonomic disease in which the blood pools to the heart and, upon standing the heart rate increases to create dizziness headaches and, pain in the legs due to improper blood pooling. I was a normal happy and healthy teenager until this time. The symptoms kept me up at night and forced me to stay in bed all day. This made me become an unhappy and
moody person. At several points I was hospitalized and needed fluids. This is where I saw Nurses in their element for the first time in my life. They were so attentive and they spent the most time with the patients and learned much about them. The Nurses did a great deal for me, other than providing me with healthcare. They cheered me up and made me look to the future. After a few visits I knew names and some personal things about them. My doctor later recommended that I should go through a program to help lessen the symptoms of my disease. I started to go through a program at Mayo Clinic about pain rehabilitation and P.O.T.S symptom reducing. Reducing the symptoms to a chronic illness is not an easy task. I spent four weeks down at the Mayo Clinic rehabilitation center for kids with chronic illnesses. I had almost every type of therapy to train my brain in reducing the pain receptors in my head. I exercised for sixty minutes everyday. Even relearn how to do even simple tasks. I had to push through everyday when I was terribly sick. I was taught that over time your symptoms can diminish if you stop giving power to your disease. Overtime I had noticed small things that were changing. I became less dizzy as I stood up. My constant stomach pain was no longer a thorn in my side. It took over three years of this pain management program to show my Doctor that I was in fact having reduced symptoms. It will take a little bit longer to call myself P.O.T.S free but I will get there with the help of this program. Everyday is a new struggle but I am working through it and on the way to having less doctor visits. The struggle in the end was worth it. I am living my life in a relatively normal way. Now it is time to look into the future. Because of those Nurses who helped me through a low in my life, they inspired me to do the same with others. Currently I am working in a nursing home helping residents with meals. I am working towards a Nursing assistant job. I will work alongside nurses and learn from them. This will let me have more experience in the field. I am also following several Nurses around to see different parts of the job. One of these days I am going to shadow my Aunt who is a Physician's assistant who works in the Operating room on hearts. My illness has never defined who I am. It’s become a part of me that has shaped my future. My future is close now, thanks to thoses times in the hospital with the caring Nurses. I had to deal with tough stuff such as missing friends, working through my disease, and those things led me to my dream today. I have had a harder time through my teenage years than most have had in their entire lives. I will not let those hard times be the only factor about me. Today I am a happy and relatively normal person. Now if you ask me what I wish to become when I grow up, I will proudly say that I want to become a Nurse.
I became a nurse in 1992. I had graduated high school in 1989 and discovered that I lacked a vision of the profession I would be involved in over the course of my adult life. I was involved in the pursuit of a career of teaching music to high school children based upon a passion for performing arts as a teen aged student. I discovered that I enjoyed performing as a trumpet player, but I did not trul...
at the orphanage, I was able to help build a sidewalk and a garage for
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