Personal Narrative: A Time In My Life

The time in my life I have decided to use for my crisis experience was quite overwhelming. My mother was diagnosed with cancer and it did not look promising. It was a very intense situation right from the start. I had so many questions and there were no answers. I had never been hit with news like that in my life. My emotions were flying around in my head. I was scared, anxious, and had no idea what was going to happen or if my mother was going to survive. While all this was happening; my father’s dad passed away, which put him over the edge. I look up to my dad; he has always been so strong for our family, but seeing him down and out like that scared me. That news put our family into the crisis stage. Emotions had taken over, we feared for my mother,

I remember feeling lost because I was dealing with death for the first time. I felt like this was it. Life is just short - and you are suddenly just gone.The CauseMy grandmother had cancer and there was history on my mother’s side of the family. The fact that she had the gene and her stressful work attributed her being diagnosed. There were really no symptoms leading up to the diagnoses, she was just given the news one day. I am sure there were many factors that played a role, but that news just blindsides you. My grandfathers passing was from cancer as well and he was a healthy man. He never smoked and really didn’t drink much. He was on his farm a lot, so he ate farm raised foods and stayed in decent shape. However, farming was a stressful and physically demanding job, so this may have played a part in his illness. Regardless, both could not change their diagnoses. It was hard for our family to brace for that sort of emotional impact.

CRISIS EXPERIENCE3Behaviour of the ParticipantsThe behaviour in the whole situation just really