In January of 2000 I was sitting watching my step mom suffer through cancer. I remember seeing my mom sick in her bed \ at St.John's hospital in Springfield, Illinois. Her eyes droopy and tired, weak muscles, not consuming much. I could see the pain in her eyes as she slowly died likes the leaves in the fall. I sat there watching her. She was cold, sick, and ready to go home. Having unexplained fevers,night sweats the wheezing nose as she breaths in and out due to shortness of breath caused by the lung cancer.I had just seen the mri’s of the bladder tumor and lung cancer. You can see the tumor, it almost looks like a dark cloud in the pocket of the lung. Seeing the MRI of her bladder was almost like a balloon it looked like an air pocket you …show more content…
My step mom had lost all of her hair from all the radiation.The woman I had looked up to for years was sick, constantly vomiting It caused me so much pain to sit there and watch her suffer. It was almost like a wrecking ball swinging back and forth and back and forth hitting down the cement walls. I sat there holding her hand, kneeling over her bed listening to the drops of the iv fluids flowing into her arm. I thought to myself She really impacted my life. She taught me the beauty to life and how fast it can be taken away without a warning and or a hesitation. She taught me that life is a dash and that you have to live it to the fullest.The quote we lived by “not everyone thinks the way you think, knows the things you know, believes the things you believe nor acts the way you act, remember this and you will go a long way in life.” A loud beep of the machine in her room brought my attention back to her and I. It was only us in the room.The room was hot. The heat was set to 76 degrees Fahrenheit and heaters were blowing around her room. She had a neoplasm also known as a tumor.Which means it is a cancerous tumor which means it can