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I was in complete shock. The first day of class and we were given an assignment to write a 2-3 page essay describing something significant about ourselves that relates to a value choice in healthcare. I was lost. I had no clue about that meant or what to pick as my topic. Then after reading the chapters assigned in our ethics book, my topic became clearer. I was going to write about independence.
I chose independence based on a number of reasons. As I sit back on look back on my life and the choices that I make: independent would be a word that anyone who knows me would say. I was only 17 years old, a senior in high school, when I got pregnant. I was scared and clueless about what to do. The father of my child left me at that time which just made it that much tougher. It took me a while to realize that everything happens for a reason and in life you are faced with tough decisions. I grew up a lot my senior year. I graduated 10th in my class with a 3.8 grade point average and convinced myself I could and would make it somewhere in life. I had little support from my family. They were convinced I wouldn’t make it anywhere being a single mother. I took their words and turned them around and used them as motivation to strive to excellence. I had my child a few months after I graduated. Life was
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even tougher then. The same words were still playing in the back of my mind: “Ashley you are never going to make it anywhere in life: you’re a failure.”
I grew up, moved out of my parent’s house, and got a part time job while I went back to school to make something of myself and prove to everyone I could do it. I was independent; I received no help from anyone. My son’s father wasn’t in the picture I was all alone. But still that just gave me more motivation to live my life to the fullest.
To this day I am still doing it on my own. I am a single full time mother; I work as a nurse full time; and going back to school...