Leukemia Monologue
On Saturday July 2, 2010 I meet Tiffany a 10 year old girl that has leukemia at St. Jude Children’s Hospital. We started talking and when she told me she had leukemia I was surprised how happy she seemed, so I asked her why she seems so happy when she knows she has a disease that’s life threatening, her response was “you only live once and if something were to happen to me the day after tomorrow I don’t want to have any regrets “like I wish I did that” I want to know that I lived my life to the fullest when it’s time for me to go.” When Tiffany told me that it inspired me because you don’t know what the future holds. Although this little girl had gone through intense sessions of chemotherapy somehow she still found the strength to influence
other people who are going through the same thing, even though her appearance had changed dramatically she still felt as beautiful as one can be for the simple reason that she was still alive. The more we talked the more I learned about the story of her life; I realized that she was a little girl with a big heart even though she was diagnosed when she was only 2 years old. She has practically been sick her whole life and still has such a positive outlook on life and wants to make a difference in other people’s lives who are going through what she’s is by letting them know that they need to stay positive and this is only a bump in the road, and they still have their entire lives in front of them. After long and intense years of chemotherapy Tiffany gets the call from her doctor that no one ever wants to get he says “I regret to inform you that while overlooking your x-ray it seems that the cancer has come back and is spreading quicker than before and I encourage you to spend as much time as you can with family and friends because at this point the length of time is known.” After a month in the hospital one night she decides to pray to god asking him to give her family strength because she knows her time has come, but she’s okay with it because she knows she’s going to a better place and has lived her life to the fullest helping others like she wanted. Instead of saying goodbye she holds her parents hands and says “thank you guys for the life you given me and it’s okay I’m ready.”
other people who are going through the same thing, even though her appearance had changed dramatically she still felt as beautiful as one can be for the simple reason that she was still alive. The more we talked the more I learned about the story of her life; I realized that she was a little girl with a big heart even though she was diagnosed when she was only 2 years old. She has practically been sick her whole life and still has such a positive outlook on life and wants to make a difference in other people’s lives who are going through what she’s is by letting them know that they need to stay positive and this is only a bump in the road, and they still have their entire lives in front of them. After long and intense years of chemotherapy Tiffany gets the call from her doctor that no one ever wants to get he says “I regret to inform you that while overlooking your x-ray it seems that the cancer has come back and is spreading quicker than before and I encourage you to spend as much time as you can with family and friends because at this point the length of time is known.” After a month in the hospital one night she decides to pray to god asking him to give her family strength because she knows her time has come, but she’s okay with it because she knows she’s going to a better place and has lived her life to the fullest helping others like she wanted. Instead of saying goodbye she holds her parents hands and says “thank you guys for the life you given me and it’s okay I’m ready.”