Personal Narrative: How Cancer Has Changed My Life

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A few years after I was diagnosed with cancer I stared walking in the Relay for Life. The second year I walked the committee gave the survivors a poem title Me. The first stanza goes:
The fact that I am a survivor
Is what I hope people can see,
Because I have endured everything
That cancer has thrown at me.
This poem relates to how cancer has changed the my life
Before my cancer diagnosis I was looking for a college to attend and a career. The search began with police officer and took the rounds through chef, teacher, and airline pilot. I eventually found the perfect career, National Park Service Ranger. Unfortunately, there is no degree labeled Park Ranger so my college counselor said, “Get a degree in Environmental Science, then you can become a Park Ranger.” It was set and the search was on for colleges offering a degree in Environmental Science. After looking at schools in Alaska, Colorado, Montana, and Washington I settled on Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana.
I was diagnosed in the emergency room after going to a walk-in clinic to check out my growing abdomen. After a CT …show more content…
I still wanted to study Environmental Science and become a Park Ranger. Now the issue was finding a school with online classes I could take because my comprised immune system meant I could not travel far from home. Rocky Mountain College did not have any online classes at the time, so I turned closer to home and enrolled in the University of Idaho. After a year of taking online classes, I began to take live courses. Eventually the number of classes I could take began to dwindle meaning I needed to broaden my scope. Since 2013 I have taken classes through the University of Idaho, Idaho State University, College of Southern Idaho, and Eastern Idaho Technical College, transferring the credits to University of Idaho. At last this fall I will be healthy enough to attend a traditional college away from

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