You always hear of adults and children being diagnosed with cancer, whether it is in a commercial, in the newspaper, on social media, or one of your friends may even have a family member that has been diagnosed with this horrible disease. You never consider cancer affecting you or one of your family members. Out of 14 million people in the world who are diagnosed with cancer every year, how can one of those 14 million possibly be one of your family members? There are 7 billion people on this planet, God could not possibly do that to our family. The odds are slim to none, cancer will never touch me nor my family, it is just impossible! Right? Wrong. I never thought a cancer diagnosis would be one to affect my life, much less in a positive way.
On Friday, October 31, 2014, I had left class to go speak to my National Honor Society sponsor about our Haunted House that was scheduled for that night. It was then that I realized I had missed a call from my dad. I called him back as soon as I could, only to hear that my mom had fallen and broken her femur. My mom had been having some back pains and it was getting harder and harder for her to walk prior to her fall. She went to work …show more content…
I decided I would no longer take the memories I make or the people I meet for granted and I try to say “thank you” and “I love you” every chance I get because tomorrow is never promised to myself or to anyone else. If cancer would not have affected my family, I would not be as strong willed, as caring, nor as grateful, for who and what I have in my life. My mother’s death changed my life in both a negative and a positive way and I now choose to look at the positive aspects of
On Friday, October 31, 2014, I had left class to go speak to my National Honor Society sponsor about our Haunted House that was scheduled for that night. It was then that I realized I had missed a call from my dad. I called him back as soon as I could, only to hear that my mom had fallen and broken her femur. My mom had been having some back pains and it was getting harder and harder for her to walk prior to her fall. She went to work …show more content…
I decided I would no longer take the memories I make or the people I meet for granted and I try to say “thank you” and “I love you” every chance I get because tomorrow is never promised to myself or to anyone else. If cancer would not have affected my family, I would not be as strong willed, as caring, nor as grateful, for who and what I have in my life. My mother’s death changed my life in both a negative and a positive way and I now choose to look at the positive aspects of