The Death Of My Daughter

This tragic moment in my life was very impactful. Not only did it change my brother Jason’s life, but it also changed mine. At a young age I believed that everything happens for a reason. Events, such as arguments with friends, tragedies in life, or just happy moments happen to make

Cancer doesn’t win. Cancer isn’t the victor, it’s the loser. Cancer’s purpose it to test our strengths, to see how far it can take us before we quit, its all a battle, and how it turns out in the end is completely by our view. People don’t lose to cancer, it losses to us. It’s all about how we fought it off. It should be about how we won it. For only four years in my life I have been able to speak to my grandma Judy, she died when I was only a child, so meeting her is only a few memories of many years ago. My Grandma was short, red curly hair, and a woman of many victories. I know that she was a true hero, victor, and a winner of many things, but most importantly, she was influential in life. She realized it wasn’t about winning it all, but overcoming her problems and adversities to reach her goals.

When I was a child, I dreamt about being a doctor helping others. I knew at the early age of 7 that I wanted to make a difference in others’ lives. After the death of my mother in 1999, I slowly changed my mind about what I wanted to do with my life. I told myself that I would do whatever it took to help bring justice for families that go through what I went through with the death of my mother. As I was going through college I realized that criminal justice wasn’t for me after working in the field. I sat there one day wondering what I would do next and I realized I have a passion for helping others; and I love babies, so why not use that to my advantage. That is how I ended up here at Southern Careers Institute pursuing a career in the

Another critical moment in my life that changed me forever occurred in August of 2001. At the peak of hurricane season, Louisiana was terribly affected by Hurricane Katrina. Katrina devastated millions of people across the south. For the first time in my life I got to experience what it felt like to be homeless. I had lost everything! And even though it was not much, it still mattered. There were several moments when I prayed and wished that my father could be there. No child, my age should have to go through with what I did. In hopes to find assistance, my mother left me and my siblings with my grandmother for a few months. These months were terrifying. I remember crying several nights

Lansing’s house a year earlier. They used to live in a beige house with burgundy trimming, on the left-hand corner of Elm and Garfield. There was somber news that occurred in October of 2013, we found out that he has Lung Cancer but it was on the edge of stage one and going into stage two. Mr. Larson was the almost like uncle to me and always has been kind enough to invite my brother and me over to allow us to play video games, play cards and he did not mind watching us for a few hours until my mother finished fixing dinner. My parents considered him as a very close family friend. Whenever Julia came over for a visit during that time, she would sit down gracefully into the wooden chair before us, while chatting with us over a cup of hot chocolate. She explains that Carter, her husband, would frequently bellow over throwing up constantly and sometimes it would be tinged with blood and then pass out for a couple hours, “I ask his to take his medicine but he will not do it and say he does not need the medicine.” She says in her very concerned tone but her body language read differently, her facial expression and her eye read that she is calm and as if she really has nothing to worry about. Wow, this woman does not even care about her husband, what gives? Julia kept the same story going that he refuses to take his medicine and all, as a result that his cancer has reached stage four by April 2014 and he looks so grim, gravely and very lethargic. His face has sunken in, you can nearly see his bones and he looks like Skeletor from He-Man and he could barely move without assistance and his walker. A couple weeks before he passed away, Julia took him with her to North Carolina, visit another man’s family. The man I speak of is called Eugene, and he just lives off of other women’s money, he cannot keep a job or care to have one. What I heard from other visitors of her house is that while

A significant moment in my life is when my dad had to get open heart surgery because he had a hole in his heart. This moment was very eye opening because in a matter of minutes something could go wrong and I could potentially lose my dad. Shortly after he had open heart surgery he had to get a pacemaker placed inside him that would manually pump his heart. This scenario makes you appreciate the small things in life, like having a healthy heart, one that you don’t have to worry about.

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

The loss of a loved one is one of the most difficult experiences to endure in a human lifetime. The grieving process often encompasses the survivors’ entire world and affects their emotional, cognitive, spiritual, and physical selves in unexpected ways. After a major loss, such as the death of a spouse or child, up to a third of the people most directly affected will suffer detrimental effects on their physical and/or mental health (Jacobs 1993).

Researchers MacCallum and Golombok (2004) argued that results from previous studies focusing on the loss of a father could not be generalized to children who grew up in households without a father from birth. This is where lesbian mothers and single mothers come into their research, because these families did not necessarily have an absentee father due to family disruption or realignment. For example, lesbians have used assisted conception and/or adoption. In earlier times, lesbian mothers weren’t always allowed these options. Many often lost their children due to the belief that children of homosexuals would have psychological and developmental problems, and at the time, many believed the children of homosexuals would be ostracized,

Many things have shaped me into the person I am today. Most of those things have to do with people dying or having near-death experiences or anything along the tragic things that can happen in one's life. Those things entail my Uncle Daniel's death, my dad's heart surgery, my cousin Laura losing her baby, and my great grandmother, Mimi, losing her life. Those things have made me realize the preciousness of life, deepened my faith, and made me a more compassionate person today.

It was Friedrich Nietzschehas who said, “What doesn’t kill you makes, you stronger”. I like to call these moments in a person’s life, “defining moments”. Additionally, I like most people, have had a few of these “defining moments”; probably more than one person should. Growing up, I had a hard time accepting one of my “won’t kill you-make you stronger” moments. It was a moment of betrayal and deceit, inflicted upon by a person I trusted fully and completely, with my life. My mother.

Some events in people's lives can really change how they perceive their lives and how they act, for better or worse. Personally, I am not one to be extremely impacted by events, but some of the events I have experienced really did leave a lasting effect on me as an individual. Life changing events are not always negative, but in my case the events that changed my life had not benefited me. I do believe that these events matured me, but I still do feel devastated that these events had to have happened in the first place. The death of my grandfather and the divorce of my parents are the two events that made me lose my innocence and feel as if I had to mature.

The life changing event, along with the acquiring of a life changing disease, namely my diagnosis of Myasthenia Gravis a month before my mother had passed, rightly made me improve my relations with loved ones towards the better,

Our lives do not always go as planned and sometimes events happen that are not expected or wanted, but we have to find a way to cope with it, especially if it is something that can not be changed. Every person in the world can relate to this feeling or situation happening at least once in their lifetime, most people many more. The events of our lives can vary from positive to negative and range from marriage to a family member passing away, along with everything in between. Depending on the situation and outcome, we will have different ways to accept and understand because not all humans are exactly alike. Our futures are not set in stone and one little decision or mistake can change the whole outcome of life for some people.With that in

In life not alot happens that matter in 5 year from the time it did. But when they are life changing times they are something to remember. They could be a small as getting your first pet to having your first heart break to buying your first house or car. They give you many different emotions when they do happen. There's never only one and a right one for each situation everyone is different and feelings will be different. For example one of the biggest life changing moments in my life would have been getting gracie. The morning it happened we got a call from her owners who we had previously sold herr to. They told us they were bring her back for a refund and to let us euthanize her. So of course my heart was broken almost shattered, how can a dog getting arthritis be a reason for her to be put down? It was a moment of despair, So being upset about hearing that I headed back to bed till Grace was going to arrive. The whole day was spent tossing and turning. I still couldn't understand how her having a small problem was reason to get her euthanized. Before she went to these people she was one of my favorite puppies. As 3 o'clock rolled around I knew she would be here in the next 15 minutes. When I got up I found my mom getting all the paperwork so we could get custody of Grace back. WIthin a few minutes I remember hearing a car pull up so I went to the front window and looked out it. That's the exact moment my heart dropped, their was this gorgeous dog who looked healthy as