Personal Narrative: My Father's Pancreatic Cancer

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Heartbeat racing, hand getting sweaty and ears turning boiling hot. Out of the blue, I hear “it’s pancreatic cancer”. I sat there anxiously tapping my feet on the hospital floor. I see my mom talking to the doctors with a perturbed face. Shocked and horrified as I am sitting there thinking “there has got to be something I could do to help”. My father was going through one of the top four dangerous cancers in the world. After hearing the news all my father cared about was fighting cancer. His energy and willpower got him to start the chemotherapies. I use to be there for him in every Chemotherapy. As much as I abhor going to the hospital, I kind of enjoyed it at the same time.The atmosphere and the medicines got my ambition to go into the …show more content…
The change and the remembrance of my father made me emotional and caused me to struggle with my education.The effects of this changes and emotion caused me to struggle through my freshman year with my grades. After one year I started to accept the changes and the remembrance of the promise I made to my father motivated me to push out of depression and allowed me to excel in my academics. Motivating myself and pushing myself helped me learn more about myself and my work ethics. This experience helped me to know my strengths and weakness and allowed me to improve them. These two experiences taught me to never give up even when hardship comes in my way and no matter what you're going through never forget to keep a smile on your face. This incident truly gave me a unique identity. My willingness and enthusiasm have motivated me to preserve lives and continue going down this path. Apart from being confident and enthusiastic, I have learned the values of relationships and how much we should appreciate our family. This experience truly showed my the value of education and how we should appreciate it. I have taken away many positive traits that will greatly impact my future career goal; self - determination, confidence, and integrity. No matter what life throws at me, my willpower and determination which I learned from my father

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