Ever since I was a child, I would constantly get sick. I would complain that I had a tummy ache constantly. But none of the doctors knew what was wrong with me. I went to and from many doctor visits and hospitals stays. This meant missing a lot of school, and having my parents worry about me too.
It wasn’t until I was in the fifth grade that they did an upper gastrointestinal (GI) on me. Through this, the doctors found out that I had malrotation. Malrotation is a condition where a person’s stomach doesn’t flip over when they are in their mother’s womb; what this essentially means, the digestive system looks like a plate of spaghetti and can cause the appendix to be at or around the belly button when it should be in the lower right abdomen. I understand that this does not sound very good at all, but it can be corrected. When I was 11 years old, I had a surgery on my stomach to correct the malrotation, and over the years, I’ve been able to eat…show more content… It first began with wanting to help sick children get better and to hopefully not have to go through the same things that I had to go though. I am able to empathize with these kids, because I know it can be scary, especially when they have to draw blood or poke you with needles over and over and over. But after awhile of thinking this way, I wasn’t sure if I wanted to limit myself to only helping kids.
Then this year, I signed up to take the Patient Care Academy at Kirkwood Community College. Going through the program helped me explore all many other options in the nursing and medical fields. This exploration led me towards believing that I could become a traveling nurse or a surgical nurse. As a traveling nurse, I could visit all sorts of places that I haven’t been to yet in this world; and with becoming a surgical nurse, I would have multiple different patients in a day but stay in one
