Ellen Degeneres Show Essay

I am a full on lover of ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show,’ it is kind of embarrassing on how much I watch this show. I watch this show around 10 times a week, it may be a lot but it is truly amazing on how many inspirational people are on the show. Anyways, in the winter of 2015 I was watching The Ellen DeGeneres Show and there was a lovely young woman. Her name was Susan McKinley, she created an organization that raised awareness for childhood kidney cancer. Susan’s daughter, Bailey, has Wilms tumors. Wilms tumors is cancer that has made its way to the kidney, It can also be found in lungs, liver, bone, brain, or nearby lymph nodes. I thought this was a very moving story, Bailey needed a new kidney. I wanted to help this young 8 year old girl. After talking to my husband about it, and after many phone calls to the McKinley’s. I was going to be a kidney donor. A year after getting everything set up I went into surgery. April 8, 2016, was a life changing …show more content…
Every weekend I take cupcakes to the homeless, I show people there is something good in everyday even if it is with a simple cupcake.

After 6 months working at ‘DC cupcakes,’ I decided to make and create my own cupcake bakery. Called ‘Hope-for-the-Cake’ where every Sunday anyone can come in and get a free cupcake to show how much ‘Hope-for-the-Cake’ cares about Washington DC. We also make doggie friendly cupcakes and donate three dozen dog cupcakes to the local dog shelters. After the amazing transformation of Bailey to helping our community so much. I find it hard not to be thankful and to not show how much I appreciate life now, more than I have before. It has now been three years since I helped Bailey and created my own cupcake bakery. Besides writing this autobiography I also am writing a book for the McKinley family, it is fiction but I thought it would be a nice present for Baileys fourteenth