Moving Me Back To Me Analysis

Experiences can change you in many ways, good and bad; but some experiences move you in a direction forward and instead of asking, “What am I going to do in life?” you ask, “What will I accomplish to make my life mean the most?” I started college in an accelerated dental program with the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, but both of my parents were diagnosed with cancer within the span of less than a year. After my mom was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer before my sophomore year, I realized this accelerated option was unobtainable as my grades reflected the pain I felt for leaving my family in California for a school so far away. After trying harder academically as the year went on and ending stronger than I had before; my father diagnosed himself with inoperable, terminal brain cancer, as he was a neurosurgeon himself. However, what I learned from both my parents and this experience will forever be instilled in me and has moved me forward.
My parents have given me diversity in the cultures I have known and the places I have been. I was born in Philadelphia, and lived in St. Croix, USVI, Australia, and California as well as traveling to all the continental US in our RV. Living in these places has me something different than just visiting, making me more …show more content…
Through my parents’ illnesses I have been able to truly understand how to care for patients hands-on as well as understanding how doctors build relationships with their patients. First through my mother’s cancer as the physicians who all personally knew our family helped save her life. And then through my father, as some of the same physicians came together to not only help him, but also my mother and our family, through this time. I was shown how doctors care on a deeper level, which I will do as a dentist with my own