Narrative Essay
“I don’t think what I did was brave or anything.” My Aunt Kate said over the phone. “I just did was I had to do.” She continued. “Yeah. Well, a lot of people say that. I watched a documentary on some metal of honor recipients in school, and they all said the same thing.” I responded, as a slouched against the couch with the phone pressed to my ear. A lot of people who are considered brave say that they just did what they had to do. Many people have to make tough choices, about their family, health, career, and not all of them are great. Sometimes there are no good decisions, there are just decisions that even if they are painful or tough, they need to be made. It feels like anyone who has to make those choices are called ‘brave’. …show more content…
Why bother finishing the test? Then Kate thought to herself: “Y’know… It’d be kinda stupid to die just because I didn’t want to finish a test.” Kate called up her doctor, scheduled the colonoscopy, called her boss to take time off of work. This time, She told the doctor to knock her out with anesthesia. No bailing out this time. Well, good news, it was a good idea to finish her colon screening. Bad news? You know what's worse than getting cancer once? Getting cancer twice. There were two tumors in her colon, and this time she can’t just cut out her colon like she did with her breasts. Well, she could, but then she would have to carry around a bag attached to her that carried her ‘y’know’, and then it’s only a matter of time until something gets infected, so probably not a good idea. Kate’s doctors diagnosed her with stage three colon cancer. The fact that she had gone from no cancer last year, to stage three cancer meant that she had really fast acting cancer. She had two choices. Kate had to go through Chemotherapy then and there, or die. Unfortunately, when it comes to colon cancer, there's only a five percent chance of survival. So it was either die, or go through hell and maybe not
“I don’t think what I did was brave or anything.” My Aunt Kate said over the phone. “I just did was I had to do.” She continued. “Yeah. Well, a lot of people say that. I watched a documentary on some metal of honor recipients in school, and they all said the same thing.” I responded, as a slouched against the couch with the phone pressed to my ear. A lot of people who are considered brave say that they just did what they had to do. Many people have to make tough choices, about their family, health, career, and not all of them are great. Sometimes there are no good decisions, there are just decisions that even if they are painful or tough, they need to be made. It feels like anyone who has to make those choices are called ‘brave’. …show more content…
Why bother finishing the test? Then Kate thought to herself: “Y’know… It’d be kinda stupid to die just because I didn’t want to finish a test.” Kate called up her doctor, scheduled the colonoscopy, called her boss to take time off of work. This time, She told the doctor to knock her out with anesthesia. No bailing out this time. Well, good news, it was a good idea to finish her colon screening. Bad news? You know what's worse than getting cancer once? Getting cancer twice. There were two tumors in her colon, and this time she can’t just cut out her colon like she did with her breasts. Well, she could, but then she would have to carry around a bag attached to her that carried her ‘y’know’, and then it’s only a matter of time until something gets infected, so probably not a good idea. Kate’s doctors diagnosed her with stage three colon cancer. The fact that she had gone from no cancer last year, to stage three cancer meant that she had really fast acting cancer. She had two choices. Kate had to go through Chemotherapy then and there, or die. Unfortunately, when it comes to colon cancer, there's only a five percent chance of survival. So it was either die, or go through hell and maybe not