My choices in life have not always been easy. Graduating in 2002 with barely the schools requirements, I always considered myself an average student that always ended up putting school activities and functions before my classes. Coming close to graduation and the option of going into a nursing program at a local community college I set my life into a different direction and signed up 3 years of my life with Uncle Sam with the United States Army. Having my military career abruptly end after the second year I found myself more in hospitals rather than being able to train with my company. In the hospitals that I was serviced at, I was amazed on the professionalism that the medical staff gave its patients.
Student Mr. Anderson English 101 – Sect. 13 December 7, 2013 Personal Narrative Finding the Heartbeats Last November I found myself sitting once again in a doctor’s office, waiting for the life altering sound of a heartbeat. My husband and I were trying to be calm, hopeful, and positive. You see just four months prior we were in an emergency room desperately waiting for another heartbeat, a heartbeat that would never be heard. So once again we sat waiting, watching.
As a young RN, I worked in a critical care setting. I remember accepting many 20 hour shifts and working under horribly huge patient loads. When I worked in the inpatient setting, in the 1970’s and 1980’s, I was never aware of protections like Safe Harbor. I am glad that new GNs must pass an examination regarding nursing jurisprudence. Hopefully this will allow them to make reasonable and responsible decisions regarding their own nursing practice.
As a benefit of working at our hospital, we can use our cardiac rehab gym for our own use. As I would do my daily workout, this sweet little gray haired lady befriend me and as we got to know each other, I discovered she had just in the last six months had a triple by-pass, still has a mild congestive heart failure and was in the midst of leukemia/lymphoma diagnosis. I was amazed that she was doing as well as she was. She explained to me that it gave her hope and made her feel better getting out and exercising daily. One day, she stopped coming.
My friend lifted up her shirt, showed her a bright red (not pink) belly, and told her mother she had been calling and informing the doctor's office for days. They simply told her it was normal to have pain, not to worry, and they could not fit her in for an appointment until the following week. From the site of my friends stomach, her mother rushed her to the emergency room in horror. What my friend had was a horrible disease called necrotizing fasciitis and it had spread through parts of her body like wild fire. So I began investigating and found that she was not the only one.
I came to Chestnut Grove today to talk to you about maturity. I matured a lot when the doctors told me that I might have soft tissue sarcoma which is a type of cancer that affects the bone, joints, and soft tissue. I learned to appreciate my family more because if it wasn’t for them I would not have been able to do much around the house. My mom and dad continued to work twelve hour shifts every day and still make it back in time for my appointments at Wake Forest Baptist hospital which is all the way in Winston Salem and cancer visits are not cheap so they also had to give up a lot of money for that. My brother was really little at the time but he still did his best to help me with anything I needed, like getting me a drink or if I left something in my room he would go get it so I
As a junior in high school, I am approaching some very big life decisions fast. Now is the time in my life where I am expected to start narrowing down career choices and looking into the right schools that fit my choice. I have decided that working as an OBGYN is a major possibility because of my fascination in the medical field and the mentorship I am involved in at Augusta health. After looking into this career more this year, I have discovered so many accounting factors. However, reaching the title of an OBGYN takes time, money and love for the career which is the reasoning behind this paper.
With my efforts, I was able to obtain a grant for my High School education in a private school and that made my mother so happy and proud. When I was 16 they discovered that I have a rupture in the retina of my left eye and she did everything to collect the money to take me to the hospital and had a surgery; I remember seeing her cried, telling the doctors to please fix my eyes, that she wouldn’t me suffer the same way that she did. Even that I don’t see perfectly well, I been able to succeed thanks to the prompt actions that were taken. I never thought of moving out of my country, what for? I had it everything: a house, a job, my family, a fiancée; but different social and family situations take me out of my nest and sent me to fly to a different world.
The reason I became intrested in Public Health all started back in High School. Coming from a low income town called Coachella, California it made me realize how the film we watched "Place Matters" applies to my life. Where I grew up there was a lot of corner stores and sometimes there wasn't enough sidewalks to promote walking or any type of physical activity in my town. Health career's have always caught my eye, so when I was in High School I got involved in an academy called "Health Academy".Part of the program was learning about the different types of Health careers that are offered. We went job shadowing with people at the hospital like Emergency Medical Technicians, Nurses, Doctor's and even people managing the hospital to get a glimpse of what they do in their everyday job.
Becoming a registered nurse has been a goal as well as a dream of mine since I was in high school. My nana had a hernia in 2008 and the doctor that repaired it used mesh and did a botched job. In 2010 she was in serious pain and ended up having a huge infection from what had happened. She had emergency surgery and many complications that followed including a colostomy. I will never forget visiting her in the ICU and thinking it would be the last time I would see her.