School is out now and i am starting a new school for a fresh start. still sick and not eating all day i signed up for girls basket ball. What a mistake i was too tired to carry on. i felt bad for my mom and dad i felt like a terrible burden. what parent wouldn’t want there child to be 100% healthy? Well i also got pulled out of that school for the same reasons. That year passed i was home alone all day and it was really getting to me. lots of testing also but no answers. the doctors put me on lots of acid reducers but since i have been taking acid replacers i have been much better.

I am going to start a new school year and make lots of new friends. What i have learned from all this is to really thank god for your health, in one second everything can change. i had never of thought that i would have gotten sick for two years. So remember to enjoy life give lots of hugs and kisses and thank god for your health.

Eve

She was a health freak and never used to eat out. I lived with her for seventeen years and never saw her missing her daily exercise routine. She was a role model for many people in the hospital where she was working as a matron. It was in 2006 that she started complaining for stomachache. I was upset with her bad health. She was diagnosed with the second degree cirrhosis of her liver. Poor lady! My husband and I took her to the best doctors in the town and started her on medication. Unfortunately, she did not respond to any of the medications as it was too late to get the damage repaired at that stage.

During this course, she became very hostile with us. She was irritated to the extent that she started calling me names. She was amused in bad mouthing me to every individual who used to come to see her. The doctor, however, explained it in another way. He was of the opinion that she is terminally ill and scared of death. Since her liver was damaged, she had all possible deficiencies in her body because of which she was not able to eat anything more than a couple of spoonful of soup and half a glass of juice for the whole day.

We were finding it difficult to adjust between our work and home life. It was very difficult for me to tolerate her bad words. In spite of supporting my husband in that critical time period, I used to criticize his mother’s behavior. He tried to make me understand several times, but my brain had a block set up there and was not ready to listen to him. This continued for all those months while her health was deteriorating. It was in the month of October that she breathed her last and finally the horrified episode of my life came to an end.

As a matter of fact, I should have had peace after this, but I am sad to loose her this way. Every now and then, I feel the loss which her death has created in my life. I go out for work and my children are alone at home. She used to be there with them when she was alive. I never realized it when she was alive. She used to take care of several things at home and I never knew many of them until the whole responsibility came on my shoulders. I regret my behavior with her. I could not understand the pain she was going through.

We tried all alternative medicines available but what can substitute love and care!
My only motive here to share my experience is that the parents can not be replaced once lost. There is no way that we can get them back. My mother used to say that parents can raise ten children but they together also can not look after their parents.

The Nature would never change its course for anyone, but we can change our nature to incorporate an element of love and care in our hearts to be given away

My mother searched for an orthopedic specialist who could help me for some time. She eventually found one and located at Beth Israel hospital and they put me in therapy immediately. The orthopedic surgeon and his team at the hospital did everything they could to help me. The team of doctors also taught my parents exercises that they could do with me at home to help strengthen my limbs. After countless trips back and forth to the doctor, doing therapy and exercises I began to show improvements. One day when my mom came to pick me up, I crawled towards her. She was so shocked and happy she couldn’t believe her eyes. Crawling was not yet walking, but it was a start. I am thankful for the doctors at the hospital as they took me into their care and it shows because I am walking as of today.

My mother always told me as I grew up that I was always trying to move faster than I was supposed to. She once told me I tried to walk while I was on the bed and fell off of it and got lost under the bed. She tells me these stories to show me how determined I was to walk and to humor me. Meaning that if I keep my eye on the prize I can do anything I try. By applying that idea to life I can be the most successful person in life. I now try harder than ever during the days that go by. I have turned out to be a very smart and talented person. I receive excellent grades in school; I am a good dancer, and swimmer. One day when my mother came home and I ran to her, and she said she shed a tear. What the doctor had told her the day I was born was a lie. She was determined to get me to walk and so was I. I have been walking ever since that day and there is nothing wrong with my bones or legs. Doctors aren’t always right, that’s why one should do research. My mother did her research and here I am now, walking.

The moral of this story, as my mother always says is never give up. Even if you are wrong the first time, or the first 100 times, the 101st time you will have got it right. So when in doubt I think of this story to help remind me of my capabilities. This helps me stay on task and believe in myself.

Jocelyn Blake

Winning entry for June! Thanks, Jocelyn for submitting your inspirational experience to From My Experience.