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Personal Narrative: My Father Laura Frederick

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No matter how celsha the line “not all heroes wear cape” is it still hold true. Take for example the average everyday nurse. People from all over the world with different background and beliefs all coming together to learn a trade that will go on and will benefit everyone they come into contact with in their work field, and sometimes in their daily lives. My mother Laura Frederick has been working as an x-ray technician for over twelve years now, and has made a huge impact in her patient’s lives, and in some instances making life or death differences.
Before I was born I knew that my mother had gone to school for computer science, but she did not work the early years of my life, and when she did go back to work when I was six it was not for a computer career but as an x-ray technician. In my curiosity my mother explained how “ I wanted a job that would always be needed and at that time there was a big demand for nurses, but I knew i would not enjoy being a room nurse after doing so observations at some hospitals. So I did some research and stumbled upon …show more content…

After two pictures, one at ninety degrees and one at zero degrees, my mother was able to conclude there was a bullet lodged into the right side of the temporal lobe. With the two pictures Mrs.Frederick was able to identify the bullets location and depth within the skull. Quickly making copies of her pictures she raced to the landing site of the helicopter where the now stable patient would be loaded and transported to a major trauma hospital. Where they would immediately be able to start surgery due to the stable condition of the patient and the x rays my mother had conducted. That day a small back country hospital nurses bought precious extra minutes to that man’s life, because without those nurseries that man never would have made it another hospital with his

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