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My beeper goes off and I'm called to the school office. I'm told that I'm supposed to be taken to St. Louis in a helicopter as fast as humanly possible. This was the day that would change my life forever.... and I didn't even know it. I was the only child in the Jr. high that wore a beeper, some kids thought it was weird and some thought I was I lucky that I even got to wear a one. I didn't think I was so lucky, the reason I had happened to be wearing this pager was because my mother was dying. My mom had a rare disease that attacked her lungs, much like cigarettes deteriorate your lungs, but a hundred times worse. This disease was called Alpha-1 Antitripsin Diffisionsy. I had never known my mother to not be so sick. Ever since then we have to stop every few feet in the mall so my mom can even catch her breath. This pager going off meant that my mother could have a chance to live long enough to see me grow up a little. For the next three years my family went through hell and back again, and I'm about to tell you how that huge part of my life has made me who I am today. We arrived at St. louis Barnes Hospital early that afternoon. When we go there they rushed my mom in for prepping, we got to
Though many horrible things happened in St. Louis, not much got better. The rest of our three years was spent staying at the hospital, going to school or just curled up in a ball. It may not have been fun and it sure wasn't extravagant by any means. but in those three years I learned more than I ever will. Thinking through the way that I act now, I do believe that I have changed immensely, I grew up in a matter of days down there. I now know what I can't take for granted in what I see in people. I can't take my life for granted either, because I lost so many dear friends and seen so much. I also have changed in being a lot more outgoing than I used to be, in St. Louis I lived for my own almost all the time, so in human nature, I had to become outgoing. It shows in what I have already done in my life. I was Student Body President in my High School, my senior year. I was cross-country and Soccer Captain for two years and have made it to college on my own. And I am proud and would not have it any other way for myself. And so that is why I believe what has made me come this far and be who I am today in life. sleep. They said his heart just was to small to keep his weak lungs going. They said he went without pain. I sure hope so. Through out the next three years many great and horrible things happened. My mom came out of the surgery in good pretty good shape, for the next three months, the only way I could see my mom was if I scrubbed up and put on rubber gloves so as not to infect my mom in any way. During those three years I didn't get to see much of my parents, they were always gone. They were either at the hospital or either at the hospital. It went from drastic change of being momma's boy to raising yourself in the s
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