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Seeing My Grandmother Dying From Colon Cancer

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A personal issue that I witnessed was seeing my grandmother dying from colon cancer. Between the ages four and five, I was taking care of my grandmother before she passed away. Before my grandmother passed, she stated that, “You are doing an amazing job at being a nurse since you are my little nurse”, her words moved me in numerous of ways that I can’t explain which motivated me in becoming a nurse. Helping around the house with my grandmother while everyone else was a work, I heated her food in the microwave, knew when it was time for her to take her medicines by the sequence of her favortie shows, made sure she got her rest, and took people phone calls without writing down their names and numbers. Throughout my elementary days on to now,

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