Narrative Essay On Breast Cancer

This is just a little personal information about me. Cancer has been a very serious matter within my family. There have been 3 members of my family that have had Cancer, my mother, sister and I. The first one was my mother. She has had breast cancer for almost five years. Unfortunately, she has passed away not long ago after putting up a tough battle. The next family member would be my sister. She has had breast cancer as well for about 7 years. Unlike my mother, she is still living thought. Five years ago, I was diagnosis with multiple myelomas. I was told I would live another five years but after two stem cell transplants, I am living a year longer than expected.
My cancer is still currently in remission thought and I am still here fighting. I get a checkup on a weekly base called chemotherapy. I am given chemotherapy to keep cancer from coming back, considering how aggressive as it was when I was first diagnosed. At my chemotherapy treatment, I am giving an infusion through tubes in my chest …show more content…
I have my children, grandchildren, other family members and friends. Due to my financial struggle, my children help me with my bills, mobilizing me, and extra equipment I need such as a walker or wheelchair. My children make their kids help me as well. My grandchildren help me with things such as walking around the house, working out, doing my hair and many more task that are needed to be done within my daily life.
With chemotherapy, cancer, and all the medication, I go through many struggles with my body. The problems I have are things such as losing weighing, gain more weight, dizziness, weak limbs, and many other bodily functions. I lost a lot of weight since the beginning of my battle. As I lost the weight, I began to struggle to gain it back. I was stuck at a low weight for a huge amount of the time. With all the weight lost, my muscles began to get weaker as well. It became hard for me to walk and stand for a long period of