A Mothers Fight with Cancer essays

A Mother's Fight with Cancer essays My mother has always been the back bone of our family. Many times if it was not for her sometimes I do not believe we would have survived. In the beginning of 2008, my mother begin to have monthly check-ups due to her thyroid. She usually went to our usual family Doctor named Dr. Campbell. Dr. Campbell did his usual routine when checking for thyroids, but this time while checking my mother he came across two large masses in her belly. Dr. Campbell immediately he knew that it was not normal, so referred my mother to a doctor named Dr. Johnny who is an oncologist. My mother went to Dr. Johnny who told her he wanted to immediately remove the two masses because they could be cancerous tumors, which is life threatening. On March 12, 2008 at 8:00 A.M., my mother went under the knife to have the two massive tumors removed. Around 12:00 noon, she came out of surgery successful. Dr. Johnny explained to my family and I that he was going to send the tumors off to a cancer center to be Check for cancer and other diseases. Though my mother had twenty-five staples from her breast area to her vagina, she survived the big part. Now my family and I waited to see how the next couple of weeks would go. My mother had to stay in the hospital for six long days. It was so hard seeing her lay there helplessly because I had never seen her in a situation like this before. I had so much on my plate at this moment. I went home every night worrying about my mother, so around this time in my life it was pretty hard for me to focus on my school work, after school activities, and Once my mother got home things became easier. She still had trouble getting off and on the bed, digesting food, and using the restroom but we looked to the Lord and gave him praise for allowing her to pull through in a situation like this. She went back to Dr. Johnny on May 12, 2008 and he diagnosed her with colon cancer. My mother deci...