Like a Mom
Mrs. Kim Jordan was the most amazing, strong, bright, happy, courageous person I have ever met. She was there when I was born and had been there for me through everything up until last year in October. Growing up being best friends with her daughter, Mary Cooper, I got to experience many things with both of them. All I have ever known is that my best friend’s mom had cancer and I didn’t think that much of it. Two years old is way too young to even begin to understand what cancer is and how that can change someone’s life. So for thirteen years my best friend and I grew up knowing that Mrs. Kim had cancer.
January of 2003 the doctors diagnosed Mrs. Kim with breast cancer. Obviously I was too young to understand this, but what I do …show more content…
It seemed like she was just repeating the same process that was very familiar to Mary Cooper and me. She went through radiation, had the surgery, and went through chemo again. This time I can remember Mrs. Kim letting her kids cut her hair with their little kid clippers. So she was bald again. Of course Mary Cooper and I still were too young to understand how much this affected her life. So the familiar process continued. We all thought it was gone again. I went on living my life cheering and playing sports with Mary Cooper. Mrs. Kim went on living her life and working. This lasted a while up until my sixth grade year. On a spring day in 2012 Mrs. Kim started limping. I was about 12 years old and on this day and I could tell she was in pain. At this point in my life I was old enough to understand that she had cancer before and how bad of a thing cancer really was. Mrs. Kim started limping all the time but she refused to go to the doctor. I always thought it was because she was scared of what they would say. I think we all were scared of what they would say. So she limped for a long time. A couple of months later, Mrs. Kim and Mr. Robbie, her husband, decided it was best to put her in a wheel chair. The wheel chairs were so much fun. Mary Cooper and I used to have wheel chair races with Mrs. Kim, however Mrs. Kim always won. Finally around Christmas they went to the doctor. The gut- wrenching news of stage 4 breast cancer was the outcome of this doctor visit. The breast cancer metastasized to her bones causing her more pain than anyone could imagine. This time we understood how bad it was, however, nobody in the community really did. She always had a smile on everywhere she went, but Mary Cooper and I really knew how bad it was at home. At this time in my life my job was to be there for Mary cooper through everything even though I was in so much pain. The amount of times I have had to hold Mary Cooper
Mrs. Kim Jordan was the most amazing, strong, bright, happy, courageous person I have ever met. She was there when I was born and had been there for me through everything up until last year in October. Growing up being best friends with her daughter, Mary Cooper, I got to experience many things with both of them. All I have ever known is that my best friend’s mom had cancer and I didn’t think that much of it. Two years old is way too young to even begin to understand what cancer is and how that can change someone’s life. So for thirteen years my best friend and I grew up knowing that Mrs. Kim had cancer.
January of 2003 the doctors diagnosed Mrs. Kim with breast cancer. Obviously I was too young to understand this, but what I do …show more content…
It seemed like she was just repeating the same process that was very familiar to Mary Cooper and me. She went through radiation, had the surgery, and went through chemo again. This time I can remember Mrs. Kim letting her kids cut her hair with their little kid clippers. So she was bald again. Of course Mary Cooper and I still were too young to understand how much this affected her life. So the familiar process continued. We all thought it was gone again. I went on living my life cheering and playing sports with Mary Cooper. Mrs. Kim went on living her life and working. This lasted a while up until my sixth grade year. On a spring day in 2012 Mrs. Kim started limping. I was about 12 years old and on this day and I could tell she was in pain. At this point in my life I was old enough to understand that she had cancer before and how bad of a thing cancer really was. Mrs. Kim started limping all the time but she refused to go to the doctor. I always thought it was because she was scared of what they would say. I think we all were scared of what they would say. So she limped for a long time. A couple of months later, Mrs. Kim and Mr. Robbie, her husband, decided it was best to put her in a wheel chair. The wheel chairs were so much fun. Mary Cooper and I used to have wheel chair races with Mrs. Kim, however Mrs. Kim always won. Finally around Christmas they went to the doctor. The gut- wrenching news of stage 4 breast cancer was the outcome of this doctor visit. The breast cancer metastasized to her bones causing her more pain than anyone could imagine. This time we understood how bad it was, however, nobody in the community really did. She always had a smile on everywhere she went, but Mary Cooper and I really knew how bad it was at home. At this time in my life my job was to be there for Mary cooper through everything even though I was in so much pain. The amount of times I have had to hold Mary Cooper