Ophelia Bucket List

At the time I entered the room, my world collapsed. My mother was lying on the bed and crying after the surgery. I was only 10 years old but I knew what cancer means. So overwhelmed by my fear and unrest, I lost hope for my life: how can a ten-year-old boy live without his mom?

Sometimes in life things just happen and we have no control over them but we learn to move forward in spite of everything we face. When Nick receives his diagnosis for cancer, it frightens him greatly to the point where he begins to see death everywhere. He becomes adamant that his life could be lost to the same disease that took his father’s life. Not knowing how to deal with the news, he asks the

On September 14, 2002 a beautiful little angel named Alexa Michelle Nawrocki was born. Her first year of life was healthy, but when Alexa turned 17 months she began to develop a cold along with a low-grade fever. Within a couple of days, her cold disappeared. However the fever worsened, and upon examination at the Doctors office a mass on her kidney was discovered. She was taken straight to the emergency room and it was advised they she receive a stage IV Neuroblastoma (the cancer had reached her bones, bone marrow, and into her lungs and liver).

Addie was 9 years old she was very pretty with blue eyes and dark brown hair. She had one brother named jack and he shared her physical features. Addie had two very loving and fun parents and although she was not rich her family was always happy. Addie's life, for the most part, was perfect, she had many friends and toys, but the thing that made addie different from the other kids at school is that she had cancer at six years old. But It had gone away because of early treatment. But two months ago cancer came back deadlier than ever.Addie was given a little over a year to live And the family didn't know what to do. Willing to put up a great fight. This came as a big shock to the family. But they were determined to beat cancer. But it involved

At eight years old, she was the chubby cute blonde hair blued eyed little girl many loved. She was sweet would always put others first. Many said her maturity was tip-top but still had a cute kid side of her. She was sometimes too nice and this is what would change her for the worst.

To start off, neuroblastoma has changed the way she views the world. Throughout her story, Lauren endures an immense amount of physical pain, therefore she will never see anything as painful again. For example, in the passage it describes the effects of chemo on Lauren’s body, it states “She persevered even when the chemo made her so sick she couldn’t walk more than a few steps without

James Hosmer was a fisherman, a hunter, a gardener, and an office worker. He thought he was healthy most of his life. He couldn’t wait to retire soon. He had worked his whole life to get to this point. Then tragedy struck, he went to his doctor one day because he was having pain all over his body. That pain ended up being cancer. The cancer would stop him from planting his garden, the cancer would stop him from getting that big fish, and spending time with grandchildren. The cancer would also stop him from his lifelong dream of seeing his daughter Susana Nwosu graduate from nursing school. It was a slow and painful death. The person that was once full of life, happiness, and energy was gone. There was just a shell of a person left. He

She stood from her bench when I was a few feet away, I dropped my bags and we embraced for a very long moment. When we released ourselves hug she quickly directed me through the bustling maze of people in this place. Out the front door we went.

When Susan was first diagnosed with lung cancer no one understood why. She wasn’t a smoker or user of tobacco. The only connection to lung cancer was her family’s history. Susan’s father died of lung cancer at 55 years old. Susan was seven years old when she lost her father. She couldn’t imagine putting Jessica in the same position she was in as a little girl. Up until her own diagnosis, Susan felt losing a parent was the most traumatic event to happened in her life.

Some kids throw temper tantrums or whine and complain all of the time, but Jeanette, hasn’t had much. SHe never got nice toys for christmas, she went days without food, and she wore the same clothes all of the time. However, JEanette lived the most of everyday. She was always the optimist, always the one to have the power of positive thinking. Even though she didn’t have much at all, she still loved, and enjoyed life mostly everyday. Jeanette had to learn how to mature right away, which most kids don’t have to. She was living, her growing up life was rough, but she kept thinking positive and kept going, and believing in her

Life isn’t as long as it seems. Time sometimes flashes tight before our eyes. We

Cancer tried to win against my older sister, Jéna, but failed. When Jéna was first diagnosed with a brain tumor called Medulloblastoma, it was one of the worst challenge that could have occurred in my family, but also one of the best. When my family members explained what happened to Jéna later in my life, I was angry that this disease-filled monster progressively tried to capture my sister in its evil home, but at that time, I was too young to understand what was happening.

When I was a child my friend, Abby, was diagnosed with leukemia. At the time, I didn’t understand how serious of a diagnosis that was, I just assumed that it was just like any other illness; she would get better. She did not get better. Abby was eight years old when she died. The memorial was a somber affair; I didn’t know how to react. We were both eight but only one of us got to be nine. I finally understood what leukemia was, a death sentence.

figure in a family is the father, as fathers traditionally have a fair amount of control over

And in this world I met the most wonderful girl. Of course, she has cancer in her, because screw her and her happiness in this messed up world. Of course, it could be worse for her. She could’ve died a long time ago from what she has. But then again, what has being alive gotten her?