My interest in oncological nursing began years ago, when someone close to me was diagnosed with breast cancer. Every so often I would go up to the hospital to check on her and we would sit and talk about her life and how grateful she was for all she has accomplished in such a short period. When I went to visit her, I met a variety of people all going through the same uncertainty as my friend was, but they all had such different backgrounds. While each meeting was brief, every single person I met taught me so much about appreciating the little things in life that I never would have felt grateful for without them. I want to be an oncology nurse because I want to make a difference in the patients’ lives, like the women I met, those many years
