Personal Narrative: My Journey To Become A Diagnostic Medical Sonographer

My lifetime goals mostly consist of being a well round, intellectual, respected person of society. An Ultrasound technician is the career I intend to pursue. The extra-curricular and academic classes I participate in will help me achieve my goals in a variety of ways. All things I do now will partake in how I am defined in the future I see for myself.

The career we have in mind as teenagers growing up may not be the same as we adult in life. I grew up playing doctor and nurses with my friends but one particular phase in my life changed that completely. The cool thing about this is, that I've always knew I wanted to wear scrubs for my future career job. Fortunately for me, this type of career was one that matched closely to my interests and personality type. From that phase in my life, I knew this was the perfect career for me.

Diagnostic medical sonographers prepare the imaging machine for the patients and the procedure when necessary. Once they have the images they review the results with the doctor and then help the patient understand the results and go over the procedure if needed. Obstetric and gynecologic sonographers take images of pregnant women and track how the baby grows. Pediatric sonographers work with infants and small children to gain images to help understand a birth defect they may have. They work closely with the pediatricians and the caregivers. Most people believe sonography is just an ultrasound for a baby but it can be for so much more like imaging blood vessels, the heart, and skeletal diseases.

My ambition is to follow a course which combines my two favorite subjects Biology and Physics. I have always been attracted to the medical field because it combines human compassion with knowledge and technology. I am interested in sonography because it allows me to have a direct involvement with patients and it is an ever-evolving field that promises to continue to grow and expand. This allows me to achieve my career goal in Diagnostic Ultrasound.

I think the biggest challenge I have faced and still face today, is being adopted from Russia. Based on the situation I was in, the chances of me being where I am today were definitely not in my favor. I was a 3 1/2 year old boy with no mother or father. As I got older the odds of me finding a forever home were getting slimmer and slimmer by the day. I was never supposed to be where I am today. God blessed me with two loving parents that adopted me, and brought me home to the United States. Although, I had a great life here in the U.S, I still faced the challenge of fitting in and being different from everyone else. I didn’t grow up in this culture or know these kids since birth. I was the different kid. The Russian boy, not the normal American

What do i want to be when i grow up ? Well many people my age wouldn’t even think about the future but i have always had one thing that i was most intrigued of and that is anesthesia.There is only one job that involves with anesthesia and that is an anesthesiologist.I discovered this my over hearing my cousin say her friend was studying to be an anesthesiologist. Then i decided to look up more facts and and a basic idea of what it was all about and i was fascinated and ever since that i knew when i grow up i want to be an anesthesiologist.

An obstacle I have faced is helping with the care of my grandmother who had Alzheimer’s. It was a challenge for my family and me since the one that took care of us was now the one we had to take care of. She had Alzheimer’s for about three years. The first year we could see the signs starting to show more frequently and we had to help her with small things such as directions, driving her places instead of her driving herself, having to tell her who someone was, things like that. Then as year two came about six of the family members including myself had to alter our lifestyle to care for her. Each of us had a night or two we spent the night with her. We also had to start fixing her dinner, picking out her clothes, she would get up at two o’clock

My interest in sonography began about a year and a half ago when I became an egg donor. I have always wanted to help couples struggling with infertility, and egg donation was one contribution I could make. At my first ultrasound appointment, I had a chance to talk to my sonographer about her experience working at a fertility center She shared about the parents' journey from finding a donor, to IVF process, and delivery She also shared the anguish parents go through after failed attempts or miscarriages. However, like everything else, the good moments outweigh the bad sometimes. I saw the pictures of babies they helped bring into this world, and I realized I could be a part of that process. As soon as I left my appointment, I began my research

The obstacle that I overcame was food allergies. It was at my house at dinner time and my parents always had to make a special dinner for me and they would have to eat it to or make two dinners. At the time I was allergic to milk eggs peanuts and soy which was in everything back then. My parents were mainly the reason on why I got through it cause they cooked everyday and made sure that I had food to eat and good food to.

As a teenage there are not many obstacles that have faced, but there are a few. One obstacles that I have overcame in my life was the death of my aunt. During my junior year in october one of my aunt's passed away during her mother's birthday dinner. One minute we were eating and then the next we were at the hospital. It was so unexpected to say the least. This was the first death in our family in 18 years and none of us new how to cope with this sudden loss. I had never felt this grief or loss for someone ever in my life. I had to learn how to grieve and continue on. A similar thing happened when my uncle died last year. I had to be able to grieve and move on because I had so much to do with my everyday life and school.

The time that I faced challenges in my life would have to be when my mother was diagnosed with a thyroid cancer. It happened when I was about to be released from Navy in South Korea, and my plan was to go back to the United States and finish my study. Even though that I was not a model and responsible student at Indiana University, I thought I have grown since I served my country. So, I thought I was ready to go back to school and finish my education. However, my mother was diagnosed with cancer two months before I was being released and I decided to stay home to look after my mother and get a job to meet our family’s financial needs because my mother could no longer work and provide for both me and herself. It was a pretty tough situation

An obstacles that I have overcame was stage fright, When I was in a play I didn’t want to talk in front of anyone. At first, I was really shy and didn’t want to talk for my director because maybe I will forget the words that I had to say. Also, my whole family was gonna be at the play watching me talk. Not only, was I scared to talk on stage I was scared to talk to the others that were in the play with me. Finally, I talked to this girl who had the lead roll her name was Angel she had helped me talk in the others and on stage. Also, she had told me to pretend like it was just me and her talking to each other.

My future career choice is to be an obstetrician/gynecologist aka ob/gyn. I chose this career path because I want to help women and their unborn children. As an ob/gyn I will be a physician who provides medical and surgical care to women and have a particular education in pregnancy, childbirth, and disorders of the reproductive system. One of my reasons for this career choice is that having a child is one of the greatest gift ever.

Early in the morning at 7 am, I arrived at the hospital to prepare my day of work. I had a small meeting with the physician that morning to discussed about the any concern of the planned ultrasound procedure. I took a look at my schedule today and was happy to saw a few patient coming in for fetal ultrasound. I then I look at my first patient clinical history and health status. The patient was a woman name Berry, she is in her 30s and was 5 months pregnant. Today she is here for Transabdominal ultrasounds. After looking over my patient demographic I went to the ultrasound scanner room which have transducer probe, a central processing unit (CPU), a monitor, a keyboard with control knobs, disk storage devices, and a printer. After cleaning and

The most significant challenges I faced was when my uncle died in 2016. That year was a rough year for my family, especially my mom. My uncle’s death affected my mom the most because she haven’t seen him for about eighteen years. When he died my mom hit depression and would hardly smile.