Personal Narrative: My Experience As An Adult

Throughout my life I have experienced many traumatic events that have shaped me as an adult. Many of my experiences as a child have influenced my career choice as well. I want to become a nurse and continue helping people through many different life problems. I feel I have become more conscientious to responding to people in pain because of my various traumatic childhood experiences. When people are in need I find myself coming to their side to help and assist them with whatever is affecting them. I can relate to others pain because I too have gone through many painful endeavours in life. I was born with a severe case of club feet. It is an ankle deformity that in extreme cases can inhibit you from walking. As a child, I was in and out of Gillette 's Children’s Hospital, from surgery to physical therapy I have experienced it all. Not just that, but in fourth grade I broke my femur. So once again, I had another surgery and stay in the hospital. Through that experience I got the opportunity to meet lots of people and make new friends with similar situations …show more content…
Always carrying my little walkie talkie I heard my mom say “Dinner in twenty dear.” Repeating back a giggled, “Roger that mom.” I began the long and exhausting pedal home. Occasionally my tire would get stuck in the mud and I would have to get off and push. Finally arriving home my mom yelled, “Where have you been mister? You are ten minutes late.” As hungry as ever I ran to the kitchen table and quietly ate. During dinner, my mom began to explain how she and my dad were to be gone for the night on a business trip and that the babysitter would be late. Since the babysitter was going to be late. I was to watch my little brother Austin until she arrived. He was five, so it was not hard, but we just did not seem to get along. Soon after dinner they left and I was left home alone with Austin for the first time