Giancarlo Stanton, a famous baseball player once said “High school is what kind of grows you into the person you are. I have great memories, good and bad, some learning experiences and some that I'll take with me the rest of my life.” The four years you spend in high school are supposed to be the best yet worse and hardest years of your life. You will gain some things and lose a few, but later in life realize every loss you took, and every gain you took was for the better. In the next four paragraphs of this essay I am going to show you living proof of how high school and events during the four years shape you into the person you grow to be.
Have you ever met the people refer to as “heartless” or “bitches”? Everyone knows that one person, …show more content…
Now let's get up to speed, senior year. I have missed over fifty days of school and still have a 4.3 GPA. Back in September of 2017 I started to have easily the most unbearable pains in my abdomen area, with dreadful headaches and real tense chest pains. On October 14th leaving school, I fell to the ground; I became freezing to the point my teeth were chattering, I could not catch my breath my heart was racing. It felt as if I were dying, a few moments later I was completely fine. That evening my coworker told me I looked really pale. I was going off and on with hot then cold flashes. My heart started racing again with a tightening pain and I fell to the ground. Abi, my coworker called my mom who then rushed me to St. Lukes Hospital. They rushed to put me on a breathing treatment while doing some other test. Within 20 minutes my doctor came back with some heartbreaking news. I needed to be life flighted to Toledo Children’s Hospital because my CBC revealed my Hemoglobin was only 5.4; he proceeded to say I had a very strong body and I was lucky to still be fighting because many other bodies would have already shut down resulting in death. After being transferred to Toledo, I was admitted for two weeks where I had undergone five Blood Transfusions and many other test. I lived in and out of the hospitals for the next several months repeating blood …show more content…
Graduating is a huge contribution in reaching my Ithaca. After graduation I am going to UT to get my BSN and become and RN. I have known since I was little that I wanted to become a nurse or doctor so I could help people. Now after everything I have gone through and knowing all the things my nurses and doctors have done for me; I feel the need to become the best damn RN out there and save lives like they did mine! I know my fight and journey are far from over, but I have made a promise not only to myself, but everyone who has helped me that I will not give up until I reach my
Have you ever met the people refer to as “heartless” or “bitches”? Everyone knows that one person, …show more content…
Now let's get up to speed, senior year. I have missed over fifty days of school and still have a 4.3 GPA. Back in September of 2017 I started to have easily the most unbearable pains in my abdomen area, with dreadful headaches and real tense chest pains. On October 14th leaving school, I fell to the ground; I became freezing to the point my teeth were chattering, I could not catch my breath my heart was racing. It felt as if I were dying, a few moments later I was completely fine. That evening my coworker told me I looked really pale. I was going off and on with hot then cold flashes. My heart started racing again with a tightening pain and I fell to the ground. Abi, my coworker called my mom who then rushed me to St. Lukes Hospital. They rushed to put me on a breathing treatment while doing some other test. Within 20 minutes my doctor came back with some heartbreaking news. I needed to be life flighted to Toledo Children’s Hospital because my CBC revealed my Hemoglobin was only 5.4; he proceeded to say I had a very strong body and I was lucky to still be fighting because many other bodies would have already shut down resulting in death. After being transferred to Toledo, I was admitted for two weeks where I had undergone five Blood Transfusions and many other test. I lived in and out of the hospitals for the next several months repeating blood …show more content…
Graduating is a huge contribution in reaching my Ithaca. After graduation I am going to UT to get my BSN and become and RN. I have known since I was little that I wanted to become a nurse or doctor so I could help people. Now after everything I have gone through and knowing all the things my nurses and doctors have done for me; I feel the need to become the best damn RN out there and save lives like they did mine! I know my fight and journey are far from over, but I have made a promise not only to myself, but everyone who has helped me that I will not give up until I reach my