My Dreams for Life
In 2nd grade, I decided that I wanted to be a radiation therapist to help cancer patients get better. By fourth grade, I decided that I wanted to be an oncologist so that I could find the cure for cancer. Somewhere between 2nd and 12th grade, I decided I wanted to be the one to cure cancer. By my senior year, I knew that I didn't want to be an oncologist or a radiation therapist.
1 - While radiation therapists are caring and compassionate, they do not have a part in reaching the goal of curing cancer.
2 - An oncologist has to go to school for half a lifetime and they come out able to dianose and treat cancer, but they don't have a hand in curing cancer. Their goal is to cure the person.
I still dreamed of working with cancer, I just knew that these were not my only options. By the hand of God, I took AP Biology my senior year. I hated Biology when I had taken it my Sophomore year. This time it was a different teacher and a much better syllabus. We focused alot more on the animal side of biology than the plant side and I came out with a deep love for mitosis and meiosis. We spent a huge deal of time on cytology. We went to a genetics conference given by Sam Rhine who is a professor at IU. That day I fell in love with genetics. I learned about all kinds of amazing stuff! I have a deep passion for microbiology and I think my ultimate goal in life would be for me to be shut up in a lab somewhere playing with blood. I told God when I was a little kid that I was serious about wanting to work with cancer and I asked him if I could be the one to cure cancer. I got an answer, but it has been so long ago that I don't really know if it was the voice of God or me talking to myself. I'll have to ask Him again.
It takes about six years to complete a degree in microbiology. I've looked into it and I think that if it's worth going to school 2-4 years to get a degree in programming then it's definitel worth it to go six years to complete the dream I've had since I was teeny tiny. The only issue now is that that a) I don't have the time and b) I don't have the money.
I've shared this dream with like 3 people before today. Now I'm out here naked and unashamed before you all. Please don't shatter my dream. If you talk, please make it positive. There is the power of life and death in the tongue. Your words will accomplish that which they are set out to do. It's just a principle.
1 - While radiation therapists are caring and compassionate, they do not have a part in reaching the goal of curing cancer.
2 - An oncologist has to go to school for half a lifetime and they come out able to dianose and treat cancer, but they don't have a hand in curing cancer. Their goal is to cure the person.
I still dreamed of working with cancer, I just knew that these were not my only options. By the hand of God, I took AP Biology my senior year. I hated Biology when I had taken it my Sophomore year. This time it was a different teacher and a much better syllabus. We focused alot more on the animal side of biology than the plant side and I came out with a deep love for mitosis and meiosis. We spent a huge deal of time on cytology. We went to a genetics conference given by Sam Rhine who is a professor at IU. That day I fell in love with genetics. I learned about all kinds of amazing stuff! I have a deep passion for microbiology and I think my ultimate goal in life would be for me to be shut up in a lab somewhere playing with blood. I told God when I was a little kid that I was serious about wanting to work with cancer and I asked him if I could be the one to cure cancer. I got an answer, but it has been so long ago that I don't really know if it was the voice of God or me talking to myself. I'll have to ask Him again.
It takes about six years to complete a degree in microbiology. I've looked into it and I think that if it's worth going to school 2-4 years to get a degree in programming then it's definitel worth it to go six years to complete the dream I've had since I was teeny tiny. The only issue now is that that a) I don't have the time and b) I don't have the money.
I've shared this dream with like 3 people before today. Now I'm out here naked and unashamed before you all. Please don't shatter my dream. If you talk, please make it positive. There is the power of life and death in the tongue. Your words will accomplish that which they are set out to do. It's just a principle.
posted by Nichole at 8:26 AM
3 Comments:
My thoughts on preventing and curing cancer is in what we put into our bodies. The food we eat. It is so full of junk and I believe that is the reason for the cancer. It is also the cure for a person who has cancer. Just my thoughts.
You must have already brushed elbows with a cancer re-lated situation in order to have even known what those professions were at the age of 7,8,9. It's not something you learn in grade school, and you certainly couldn't have just simply known about it on your own. Most children at that age have no idea what oncoligy, and radiation therapy is. I only barely understood one of those things, because of Tiffany's lukemia. I don't think I even thought about what I truly wanted to be until I was at least in highschool, and other than having a family, I haven't even been given the opportunity to explore any of my other dreams. I hope you go after your life-long dream, because I think you would do well in that field.
When I was very young, one of my role models was a radiation therapist. It really intrigued me and I learned more about it. I wanted to be a radiation therapist because that's what my role model was.
A few years later, my mom got cancer. Her first battle with it was not bad, but the second time was really bad. She almost died. I remember going to see her in the hospital. She had a feeding tube and it was unbearable to look at her. Both times that she had cancer were after my dad had already died. I stayed with friends from church one time and I stayed with my aunt and uncle another time.
I had already made up my mind that I wanted to work with cancer before my mom had cancer either time. Maybe it was just something that God put into me.
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