Bethany
Brauer
Professor
Anthony
ENG
101-110
20
February 2015
Live without Regret
It was my first year at a new
school, I should have been enjoying basketball season and hanging out with
friends like a normal sixteen year old. Instead, I was in the children’s
hospital. I had been anemic and
receiving iron infusion but all the doctors I had been to were never able to
figure out why I was so anemic. I was experiencing awful pain in my abdomen so
I had an ultra sound done, which they then determined that my appendix bursts
and I had an awful infection in my intestines. I believe in hope.
I had around
Through all the pain, the sleepless
nights, and isolation of the hospital walls I remained hopeful. I always had
friends and family visit me.
My body went through so many
changes.
The scar down my stomach reminds me
each and every day that through every twist and turn in life I have one thing
to hold on to, hope. Hope gives me strength and faith that good things are to
come.
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