Personal Narrative Analysis

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I was born with a collapsed lung and heart murmur. Placed within the New Born Intensive Care Unit, I began to fight in order to live, for the next thirteen days. Doctors tried everything they could "medically" within the confines of the law. The maximum number of medications that could be used to help seal my lungs were reached. One night, as my parents stood devastated outside the N.B.I.C.U., a pediatrician came to them. He told them about his willingness to offer me another round of the medication that I had already legally maxed-out on. If he were to follow through with giving me an extra round, however, the consequences would result in the termination of his medical license. The pediatrician and my parents agreed to follow through with