I Have Cancer and My Brother has Cerebral Palsy :: Personal Narrative, Autobiographical Essay

There argon things in life sentence which none of us can control, in my life there bind been many such things.  In onerous to carry through and through this essay I have a difficult m trying to specify what I am going to write ab bulge.  I have many ideas running through my head,and I am trying to decide what makes me who I am, what makes me special.  Soren Kierkegaard said, Life can only be understood backwards, yet must be lived forwards.  I have a difficult time understanding my life even as I look back, I am unsure of why things happened and what imprint certain events had on my life.  I say this because I know nothing else, I have nothing to compare my life to.  I am who I am and I have always been this way.               There are three major topics that I am considering to include in my essay.  The first topic is my medical history, which is sort of thick, as shown by my four fat medical fil es.  The problems all started at an early age when E-coli was found in my hip, and it had to be removed.  I went in to procedure for the first time, before my first birthday, and had part of my hip scraped out to remove the bacteria.  This was the first of about 5 major surgeries and a spacious number of visits to the doctors.  I could talk about the trauma I went through wondering if I would ever be able to notch, but I was too young to remember any of this.  The E-coli was of little importance in my mind except that it was my first surgery, and also that Doctors told my parents I would always walk with a limp, and be unable to compete in athletics.  The condition that everyone believes had the largest effect on who I am is CANCER, I made that big and forward because I want the sympathy vote. I was diagnosed with cancer on Feb. 11, 1987 and went into surgery 2 days later.  I didnt remember that date, and I had to go demand my parents all of this.&nb sp They remember it all.  I had a stage four Wilms tumour attached to my left kidney, I know what side because I draw to look at the huge scar every day, and that the doctors gave me about a 50/50 chance of survival.