Growing up from a child to adulthood is one of the most difficult progressions to do. There is so much that goes on in life, for example, our health. Throughout life you make doctor's appointments to stay in good health, but there is always that one chance that when you are at the doctor's office, the doctor doesn't see any signs of bad health and the next thing you know, you have a heart problem, any type of cancer, or a thyroid disease at a very young age. Anyone at any age can have health problems. You can obtain a health problem the minute you are born and not even know about it or go on with life until you are a teenager and finally be diagnosed with a thyroid disease that could have been caught earlier in life and treated. There is also that one chance of instantly having a disease at a young age or older age that you are not aware of because you are not sure of any symptoms of that illness and might think that you are just coming down with a flu. No one knows what can be wrong with him or her at this very moment until you make an appointment to get a yearly check up examination. Diseases hit people at any time, at any age and these diseases could be small ones or they could be serious ones.
             Take for instance my brother John. No one would have ever thought that you could have open-heart surgery at such a young age. At the age of 23, two years ago on November 22, 2000, my brother was rushed to the hospital for open-heart surgery. A doctor checked him yearly for health problems like anyone else would go do, but the doctor didn't see of any sign of heart disease, but one out of thirty-five young children and adults between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five are diagnosed each year with some sort of heart condition. These conditions, though not often fatal, are serious and can last from childhood to adult hood. It's amazing that one day someone close to you almost passes away instantly without...