Essay On How Cancer Has Changed My Life

The spring of my junior year of high school was when my family got the news that would change our life's forever. My mom had been diagnosed with cancer for the third time within a tweleve year period. Throughout the time my mom had cancer we hit a lot of bumps in the road. The first occured about two months after, the doctor called with news that they had found another tumor but this one was on her head. This is when they decided to increase her radation treatment, but it seemed like no matter how hard they tried they couldn't get the tumor to stop growing. That night my mom finally broke down, apparently she was giving up the little hope she had left. "I want you to take me to the beach atleast one more time before anything else happens to …show more content…
During the same time she was diagnosed I was getting ready to start applying to colleges, but when this came up i started to second guess about going off to school and just stay home with my mom and attend a comunity college. Once I told my parents what I had planned my mom automatically shut the idea down and said, "You will have a better experence at a univeristy instead of a community college, and i want you to gave the oppertunitites i never had." About a month after our conversation I had come to the decision that i would go to college to get a bachloars degree in Forensic science, and make my mommy proud. A few days after i applied to King my mom had another check up, when i got home from school that day she had one of the biggest smiles i have ever seen since she was diagnosed. she set me down and explanned to me that the tumors had started to shrinking, i pulled her into a huge and could not do anything but cry. That moment started the recovery of all pain that our family had been through in the past few months, my mom had became stronger than ever before and countinued to take her