Summary:
A personal essay describing the hardships of life. Details the experience of having a sick sister and having to care for her.
What is love? Love is a word that has different meaning to someone .But to me love is what I have for my family and especially for my sister. She means more to me than anyone else in the world
You see my sister is mentally handicapped. My mother told me that at 9 months she and my father noticed that my sister wasn't moving and doing certain things a 9 month old baby would normally do. My mother took her to see many doctors during the
Years but they said they didn't see anything wrong with her. So my mother got a six months visa to the United States so she could take my sister so maybe some doctor over would figure out what's wrong with her. At that time my sister was 4 1/2 years old and I was1 1/2years old. My mother left me behind with my father to take care of me while she took my sister to the United States. After the six months my mother sends my sister back to Guyana and she stayed backed in the US so she can get the whole family there with her in the future.
As the years went by I took care of my sister with the help of my father. My father worked most of the time so he wasn't really around so he used to hire people to take care of my sister but I would end up being the one who would take care of her and they would get paid for doing nothing at all. I would be scared to leave her alone because she can't walk and talk that's why I sleep with her in the same bed and up to this day we still sleep together it's like the kind of bond we have from since we were younger. At 10 year old I knew how to comb her hair, change her diaper, feed her and give her a bathe and anything else that was needed to be done for her .Sometimes she would have seizures in the middle of the night and the next morning have to go to school. One time she was rushed to the hospital because of her seizure and she almost died because she couldn't breathe and she went in a coma which lasted for a whole week. When she woke up
She wouldn't eat from anyone but me and my father. I couldn't get any sleep or even to do my homework because I would think about her every minute of the day.
Every morning I would wake up at 5 am make sure she cleaned up, fed and she had gotten her medication. Then I'll take care of myself to go to school and to reach on time. After school I would have to rush home because she has to get her medication a. certain
Time if she don't she could get sick again. I wouldn't have to time for my friends and especially for myself. In 2000 my mother brought my sister, father, and I to the United States. I was really happy because I know being here is going to make my families life much easier especially for my sister. Now she has the chance to go to school with kids who has the same disabilities has her. She is having speech therapy and therapy in her in school every that so her muscles can get to be relaxed instead of it being stiff. But there are times when I miss school because when my sister have a doctor's appointment.
I would have to be there to help my mother because there's nobody else to help but me. Now since my father live in Florida he's not here when my sister need and when I need him especially.
Even thou my sister is sick and I miss school because of her I can't blame anyone for her being this way, all I have to do is give her all my love. I don't want that stopping me from getting an education in life. I want to become a civil and criminal lawyer and for that to happen I have to get in to a good college and then go to law school. I would make my parents proud since my sister didn't get the chance to that I'm doing it for both of us.
In conclusion no matter the circumstance I went through in life so far I'm still here. I know I have to face more problems in the future and I'm prepared for what ever come my way. There's nothing that's going to stop me from achieving my goal.
This is the complete article, containing 772 words
(approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page).
