Person For A Day

If I could choose to be someone for a day, I would choose to be my mother. I would want to be my mom because she’s a strong woman that never gives up. I think my mom is one of the strongest women I’ve ever met. I know for a fact a lot of woman would gave up and done something stupid if they were in my mother’s place.

In my family we have had so much hard times and my mom always receives bad news by herself. In my family my older brother has heart problems. He has had heart problems since he was born. When he was 1 year old he received heart surgery. After that surgery he was good till he was 10 years old. When he was 10 my mom was told that he needs to receive a pacemaker. When my mom received that news she was by herself. My brother was good and healthy.

Tragedy hit my family when my brother was 15. It was his freshmen year at Rio Grande High School. Since the beginning of the year he started losing lots of strength. My brother never went to school because he was ill and we couldn’t do anything about it. I remember that he was always in bed. I would cry every night hoping he got better. I remember my mom would suffer so much looking at my brother with no strength. My brother would always tell me that he wasn’t feeling good. He would tell me because if he would’ve told my mom she would of worried and he didn’t want to worry my mom. I would end up telling my mom anyways.

Months later my brother started to get Minnie heart attacks. When my mom started to see the pain he was in she started to call his doctor to try to make an appointment. Every time she would call they didn’t want to talk to her. I remember my mom cry because she didn’t know what was wrong with my brother and the doctor didn’t want to see him. My mom could’ve broken down but she didn’t, she stayed strong and fought.

I was losing my brother by the minute. My mom had to take him to the emergency room and from there the doctor had to see him. My brother…….. My brother was dying. If my mom wouldn’t have took him to the emergency room he would have died that night. He couldn’t walk anymore. When the doctor saw him he didn’t know how to apologize to my mom. To my mom a apology wasn’t anything because her son was about to die.

My brother was under intensive therapy or care for 2 weeks. I practically lived in the hospital. When he was in the hospital we found out my brother needed a heart transplant. When I found out I was going crazy. I hated to see how much my big brother was suffering.