Speak Out Loud

Speak Out Loud When you where younger did you ever dream of becoming a fire fighter or police officer? Well I did, I had big dreams to become something different every day, and nothing could ever stop me. My mom taught me at a young age that you can be whatever you want to be as long as you try, so some could see why I was not able to choose a solid career path. While I was a teenager, I still did not know what career path I wanted to choose. But in the course of figuring out my own destiny, I learned the value of life and how to live it to the fullest from an individual who has impacted my life forever. As a senior in high school, many students are just waiting to get the year over with so they can get out and others are just thinking about getting into classes with their friends. For me it was different, I had already chosen my career path with a little help from a man named John Cole. I met Mr. John Cole while earning my hours volunteering at a nursing home. I was the assistant nurse assigned to Mr. Cole by Mrs. Larson, my nursing advisor. Amongst my class mates, I believe that I made the closest connection to my patient and attained more information about his life before he came to the nursing home. Mr. John Cole was an eighty year old man who lived in an assisted living facility for the elderly. With a glance at his appearance, some might think nothing was wrong but they would be mistaken. Unfortunately he had an underlying ghastly disease and Alzheimer’s was its name. Alzheimer’s is a disease that affects the brain and is a form of dementia with an unknown cause, characterized by memory lapses, confusion, and progressive loss of mental ability. This disease caused him mental agitation when he could not remember his short term memory.
Before Mr. John Cole entered the assisted living facility he was a co-executive for Exxon Mobile and was very successful in every perspective of life. Once being knowledgeable and now not being able to remember what he