After a week of being on the edge about whether my mom was going to be okay, the doctors told us that she was gone. She had died due to liver failure and the collapsing of her lungs. Witnessing my mom being taken away from me right in front of my eyes and there being nothing…
The Big Game It was December 7,2015. I was in Des Moines at a championship game. We played 2 games to warm up. Then went to our championship game up against the Waterloo Hoopers. We started it was 10 to 10.…
In second grade my dad was diagnosed with cancer. At the time I was too young and ignorant to really know what that meant, I just knew that it was bad. Two years later he passed away. For a nine year old, death is something they can comprehend, but not actually understand. After my dad passed away I didn’t go to school for a week.…
When I was in the sixth grade my maternal grandfather was diagnosed Multiple Myeloma. I didn’t know much about what it was but I knew it was bad. It was cancer and as I sixth grader I knew that cancer was a scary word typically used to describe some sort of disease that would later turn fatal. My grandfather wasn’t given a sentence, none of us were sat down by the doctor and told we sound be preparing our goodbyes, we were told that the cancer wouldn’t kill him and to go on living a normal life.…
It was fall when my grandfather died. Sitting in the kitchen one afternoon after school, my mother walked over to me with stained cheeks and delivered the bad news. Sitting there shocked as any child who received this type of news would have. See my grandfather had a long history of alcohol addiction and had been in and out of hospitals before so while shocking, his passing was not out of nowhere. One failed liver, and a few days later I sat on my bed thinking, not sad anymore just at odds.…
The first time I was affected by death was when I was 29 only three weeks until my BIG 30. I was awoken by the call telling my mom my grandma passed away. I was devastated, but knew it was only a matter of time before she was to pass. I thought I was prepared, but I was not. Me and my grandma had a bond like no other.…
Faith is the belief in something greater than us one can put full trust, confidence, and reliance on when difficult times arise. I was raised to be involved with church activities to maintain my spiritual life; additionally my faith grew dramatically when my cousin deceased and gave me an overview of what I wanted to pursue my career as. When I was a child, my parents encouraged me to always be as loving and caring as I could be, not for personal gain, but to be benevolent to the people around me. I was raised with two loving parents, Mario and Rebeca, along with a younger brother, Mario and older sister, Ana.…
Last winter, my grandmother got breast cancer. This took a hard toll on my whole family. The doctors said that she was only in stage 2 and that it would be cured with radiation. My grandmother had to go to radiation everyday, 5 days a week. This was extremely difficult on my family.…
I was 23 before I was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder. As far back as Elementary school I knew that there was something “off” in the way that I processed information. That my ability to do well academically was somehow hindered by not having certain tools that I needed, tools I wasn’t even aware existed. In high school, I began to augment my deficits with strengths. Where my grades were lacking I made up for it through creativity; I excelled at art and photography.…
“Go! Go!” The shouts of spectators echoed off of the walls of the pool. The smell of chlorine filled the air. I was leaning over the rope, screaming at my sister as she took her last strokes into the wall.…
A few years ago I remember walking home from school. Mind you I thought I was very handsome back in those days, I had soft, dark brown hair, I went to the gym every day, I was fit and healthy, personally I thought I was a ladies man and I still am (I think). Anyways, I was almost home…
Being a seventeen year old mother of two beautiful babies has taught me so many new things and also made me mature a lot faster. I have a 1 ½ year old little prince and a 3 week old little princess. We still live at home with my dad and two sisters. I just started my senior year I Cal-Safe and I will be finishing next month.…
My first experience with death occured when I was 4 and my great-grandfather died, although I was not that affected, as I was too young to really know what was going on and I wasn´t really close with him in the first place. When I was 10, my grandfather was diagnosed with cancer, and he passed away two years later. This was my real first experience with death, as I was affected deeply, as was my family too. Whenever my grandfather was diagnosed with cancer, they found it in the fourth stage, which is the worst stage, he started treatment with hopes that he would get rid of the cancer.…
Settled down by my cousins, enjoying the cool Kansas breeze, laughing, joking, and relaxing. Mom’s outside with Aunt Grace talking about God knows what while the kids were laughing in the living room. I remember talking to my cousin Ronald about what we should do outside to either ride our bikes, walk around the neighborhood, play tag, just do something active since we were young with enthusiasm and optimism about what else is out there in life for children to do in their spare time. Something just egged me on to go check Mom outside, as I got up from the couch , I noticed two men, standing outside, dressed in camouflage with such a stern mask covering their face. All of a sudden Mom begins to worry, but at the time I was as confused as to why Mom would have such a feeling of concern.…
I grab the handle of the bedroom door with my hands shaking and my heart pounding. As I pushed the door opened I saw my mother with my little baby sister wrapped in her arms and shaking furiously begging her to please wake up. As of that moment I realized something was wrong with my little baby sister. At that time, I was eleven years old. I have never lost a loved one before and death is a word I did not know existed.…