Experiences/persons that made me choose my career.
I am a very logical person that believes that problems and situations does not define one"s self , and one should not be afraid to dream big as long as you are diligent, focused and hardworking. Choosing a career in the health sector was not a decision I made growing up, my mother was a medical laboratory scientist and she told me that even as a child, I would ask her why she was drawing blood from her patients and I was so inquisitive to know a lot of things in health, so it did not come as a surprise to them when I told that I would like to become a Nurse. I was in the Nursing school in my birth country Nigeria,before I came to the United States and continued to pursue my passion. However, along my journey in life, I made another decision to go to a medical school.
I am the first child in the family of five. I lost my younger sister to cancer at the age of seventeen. It was a very gruesome and devastating experience in my family especially to me because her sickness started back in Nigeria and she was taken to many doctors and physicians but none could detect the cause of her sickness. They always told us it was one disease or the other and they kept treating her for a disease which was not really the problem. I cried everyday as I watched my younger sister go through pains that was indescribable. My mother suffered and took her from one hospital to another in order to save her life. We had so many sleepless nights, all we did was to cry and wished we had a way to help alleviate her pains. It pained the most because the medications she was receiving from the doctors could not help her feel the pains less, and the fact that the diagnoses of the physicians were not the same , because one will call it leukemia and another will call it something else. My sister was getting skinnier and weaker as days rolled by before my father decided to bring her down to the United states. On reaching the United States, she was admitted in Texas Children Hospital,where the doctors confirmed that she was suffering from cancer and that it was already too late as the cancer has flown in to her blood stream. After months of treatment, they suggested that she was to be taken to a hospice since she was suffering from a terminal illness. she passed on in less than six months.
This experience did not only devastate me but it made me grow stronger as individual, and made me take the decision of becoming a doctor(Oncologist). Her last words on her dying bed to me was that if she ever made it alive from her sickness that she will be an Oncologist and build a hospital in Nigeria, in order to help people dying from this deadly disease, sadly she did not not make it from the sickness, but her dream and passion did not die with her, which is what made me take a decision to become a medical doctor(Oncologist). I know it is not going to be an easy journey, since the funds are quite expensive in order to be in a medical school. However, I care less about how long it will take as long as I know that someday, I will proudly look in to her pictures and smile because I spent the rest of my life pursing her passion and finally accomplished it. I will use the scholarship fund in my career pursuit and hope that someday, I will help get the cure of this deadly disease called cancer.
I am a very logical person that believes that problems and situations does not define one"s self , and one should not be afraid to dream big as long as you are diligent, focused and hardworking. Choosing a career in the health sector was not a decision I made growing up, my mother was a medical laboratory scientist and she told me that even as a child, I would ask her why she was drawing blood from her patients and I was so inquisitive to know a lot of things in health, so it did not come as a surprise to them when I told that I would like to become a Nurse. I was in the Nursing school in my birth country Nigeria,before I came to the United States and continued to pursue my passion. However, along my journey in life, I made another decision to go to a medical school.
I am the first child in the family of five. I lost my younger sister to cancer at the age of seventeen. It was a very gruesome and devastating experience in my family especially to me because her sickness started back in Nigeria and she was taken to many doctors and physicians but none could detect the cause of her sickness. They always told us it was one disease or the other and they kept treating her for a disease which was not really the problem. I cried everyday as I watched my younger sister go through pains that was indescribable. My mother suffered and took her from one hospital to another in order to save her life. We had so many sleepless nights, all we did was to cry and wished we had a way to help alleviate her pains. It pained the most because the medications she was receiving from the doctors could not help her feel the pains less, and the fact that the diagnoses of the physicians were not the same , because one will call it leukemia and another will call it something else. My sister was getting skinnier and weaker as days rolled by before my father decided to bring her down to the United states. On reaching the United States, she was admitted in Texas Children Hospital,where the doctors confirmed that she was suffering from cancer and that it was already too late as the cancer has flown in to her blood stream. After months of treatment, they suggested that she was to be taken to a hospice since she was suffering from a terminal illness. she passed on in less than six months.
This experience did not only devastate me but it made me grow stronger as individual, and made me take the decision of becoming a doctor(Oncologist). Her last words on her dying bed to me was that if she ever made it alive from her sickness that she will be an Oncologist and build a hospital in Nigeria, in order to help people dying from this deadly disease, sadly she did not not make it from the sickness, but her dream and passion did not die with her, which is what made me take a decision to become a medical doctor(Oncologist). I know it is not going to be an easy journey, since the funds are quite expensive in order to be in a medical school. However, I care less about how long it will take as long as I know that someday, I will proudly look in to her pictures and smile because I spent the rest of my life pursing her passion and finally accomplished it. I will use the scholarship fund in my career pursuit and hope that someday, I will help get the cure of this deadly disease called cancer.