Anterograde Amnesia

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Graduating from high school, we expect to already figure out what we perceive ourselves doing for the rest of our life, or have an idea of what we will do after graduating. That is not always the case! Once were over the age of twenty and still cannot figure out what on God's green earth we see ourselves doing for the rest of our life. Birth name is Perla Esmeralda Salas Escobedo, born April 1, 1993 in Ardmore Oklahoma. I am twenty-two years-old, four-eight feet, brown eyes, dark brown hair, and considered White-Hispanic. Graduated from Marietta High School in 2012, I work and attend school full-time I have no children for the moment. On my free time, I love spending time with family and my “babes”. You can always find me on my phone, watching …show more content…
254). According to my friends, my nickname is “pinky”. I acquired the name as I forget approximately everything and cannot remember anything to save my life! I feel comparable, the scary thing however, I will have memory loss or dementia at the timeworn age. I just cannot recall anything. I could be doing stuff one week and by the next week, I could not remember anything, not even the greatest stuff I did. An excellent example of my anterograde amnesia, last night while working on my paper for psychology, getting ready for bed, I put my laptop up and pulled out my junk drive accordingly I can maybe work on it at work tomorrow. My smart self-misplaced the drive and cannot even remember what I did with it! Therefore, my luck on how I will turn in this paper for tomorrow on …show more content…
I finally decided I believe, I need to proceed with a nursing career, preferably a Registered Pediatric Nurse, fingers crossed I make sure not to change my mind! I love working with children, I poverty to comfort and care for babies. I love taking vital signs, putting medicine through IV’s as I did when my little brother stayed sick. I believe he had a massive portion of why I need to be a nurse. The scrubs, sterilization, gloves, administering medication all the nursing kits excited me! I will graduate from Murray on May of 2016, and plan to enroll in North Central Texas College in Gainesville, TX to earn my associates degree. After I complete NCTC I will apply to East Central University to acquire my bachelor’s degree in nursing, and if I stay lucky enough, I famine to become married, travel when possible and start a

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