Marruz's Essay How To Divorce Back From Adversity

My father passed away three years ago on August third of thousand and thirteen. He was paralyzed from the waist down from a steroid. A steroid given to reduce inflammation from his spinal cord. It started off with severe headaches and neck pains, allowing the inflammation to become worse. He was given a spinal tab in order, to see what the doctors can do. After, given the steroid he was paralyzed from his head down to his toes. Until, several hours later his upper extremities began to feel sensation. The only body part left without his sensation was from his waist down. My father was paralyzed for two years until, he passed away. He spend most of time in and out of hospitals to nursing homes; we tried to have him at home. Just, things became stressful for my family and I dealing with this constant motions. It took an emotional toll knowing, he couldn't do what he use too. It was such a dark time for my father, knowing his ego and pride was taken as a man knowing he couldn't provide or do what he loved. Emotionally, …show more content…
Margolis and Paul G. Stoltz stated "Most of us go with our gut when something bad happens. Deeply ingrained habits and beliefs sap our energy and keep us from acting constructively. People commonly fall into one of two emotional traps. One is deflation. Someone who has marched steadily through a string of successes can easily come to feel like a hero, able to solve any problem single-handedly. A traumatic event can snap that person back to reality. Even for the less heroic among us, adversity can touch off intense bursts of negative emotion as if a dark cloud had settled behind our eyes, as one manager described it. We may feel disappointed in ourselves or others, mistreated and dispirited, even besieged." Which, is very true from my fathers death I experience a traumatic event that snapped me into reality, knowing that life is short and we should live it to the