8 weeks after my marriage I became quite ill, I was vomiting late in the evening and I didn 't like certain smells of food and I was feel light-headed and dizzy. My mother in law said I was pregnant she was certain about it, I did a pregnancy test which was positive I was a worried, the thought of having a baby was daunting, anyway. She accompanied me to the doctors and it was confirmed I was pregnant, I was told I will be having a baby in January 2000. My Dr was called Dr Booth she was…

It was Friday, July 15th, 2005, I woke up to my grandma telling me with happy tears in her eyes that my mom was in the hospital. I froze, I was shocked, I didn’t know what was going on. “What happened” I asked my grandma worried about my mom. She didn’t answer. Once again I asked “What happened”, I still got no answer. I’ve never been so worried in my life, I thought something bad happened to her. After me constantly asking the same question over and over I finally got an answer. Once I found…

I evaluate my life and look back on where things have gone good and bad it is easier for me to identify where my main issues and problems were that drove my addiction. In my childhood I was neglected the love that a child should receive. The nurturance of role model was not present throughout my upbringing (values and principle wise). I am also able to spot that there are a multitude of different character traits I lacked because of mental and physical abuse that occurred throughout my childhood.…

four years old when my life started to go through tough situations in my life. My parents started to have problems all the time because my father was cheating on my mother. My mother and my father had many businesses together and one of them was a school from Pre-K until 12th grade in the Dominican Republic. I remembered that my father even had women at their own business and my mother could not stand that. As the years went by, I was six years old when my parents got divorce and my father left the house…

Mead once said: “Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.” This quote certainly holds true for me. When I was in elementary school, a caring man changed my life without knowing it. In second grade, my mother signed me and my little sister up for ice skating class. For an extremely brief time period, I had visions of becoming a figure skating prodigy, but they immediately dissipated as soon as I stepped onto the ice. I couldn 't take a…

on my way to get a haircut when my mother learned that her 19-year-old sister in law had gone into labor, she was six months pregnant. She gave birth to a very fragile baby girl that same day, but my aunt’s condition got worse and we spent the next hours visiting blood banks trying to get O- blood for her. I was 16 at that time, and felt so frustrated I could not do more than making phone calls to blood banks, not even donate blood, since I was not 18 at that time; she died that same day. My aunt…

When I was four I sat in the back of my dad’s doctor’s office visit playing with my dolls. He looked at my dad and told him that he had six months to live. I remember laying in my bed at night hoping that I would see my dad the next morning. This never ended until my dad died nine years later. In those nine years if I heard an ambulance headed up the highway towards my house while I was at school, I got a sinking feeling. There was further suffering as I watched my father decline over the years. The…

up to my grandma telling me with happy tears in her eyes that my mom was in the hospital. I froze, I was shocked, I didn’t know what was going on. “What happened” I asked my grandma worried about my mom. She didn’t answer. I once again I asked “What happened”, I got no answer. I’ve never been so worried in my life, I thought something bad happened to her. After me constantly asking the same question over and over I finally got an answer. Once I found out the answer I was trying to keep my cool…

out my father was being deployed to Iraq was a life changing experience full of sadness, but it was also an integral part of becoming who I am today. My journey began right here in Lincoln, Nebraska on August 10, 1996. I was born to young parents who were no longer together but both understood the responsibility that they both had now that their baby boy had arrived. I had a relatively normal childhood and both of my parents, as well as their new spouses, were always there to teach me life lessons…

Unfortunately, my parents felt the best place to raise my older brother and me would be in the little suburb of Pearland. Although I think it would’ve been cooler to grow up in Houston, I still can’t complain about the life I’ve had. It hasn’t been completely simple and carefree but overall it’s been pretty great. I went to elementary school at Carleston Elementary. This was probably one of the simplest times of my life; I didn’t even know what stress felt like. However one of the most life changing…