Turning point

             Everyone in there life experiences a tragic event which brings a state of hopelessness. Whether it may be large or small these occurrences change us mentally or physically and shape us into the people we are today. These events in are lives are turning points which cause individuals to better themselves. In the end, these points in life make us learn more about ourselves and our lives, and force us to never take anything we have for granted. There have been a lot of these points in my life but one that I think has made me a better person to this day is when I found out my father was diagnosed with a terminally ill form of cancer that could take his life any day if he did not have an emergency operation.
             Over a three months span my dad had been very sickly in and out of the hospital. The doctors and many different specialists knew he was sick but none knew why. One day finally my parents got an abrupt phone call from a lab telling my dad that he needed to go the doctor immediately because they thought they found something but they needed to make sure. After several tests being ran through him the doctors had finally concluded their suspicion. The cancer that my dad was diagnosed with that day was one which leaves patients suffering from it dead, if not left a terminally ill patient with not long to live.
             Most adults can say that death is hard to understand but even harder as a youth. How do you as a parent explain to your 13 year old daughter that her dad might not be there to walk her down the aisle at marriage or to even see her graduate from high school? That's what my parents had the obstacle to pass when it was brought to attention of this horror that was tearing apart my family. It wouldn't be easy to tell me nothing was wrong when my dad was at the hospital for a month at times then in and out of the doctor's office bi-daily. Normal kids would brush it off because they didn't understand, but I took i
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