It may sound cliché but in my instance the saying is very
true. “Tomorrow is not always a guarantee.” Last year I lived my life only
worried about school. Missing doctors appointments and never rescheduling them.
I hadn’t been feeling right for months, constantly shaking, sweating, and rapid
heartbeats that felt like you were having a heart attack. One day in the middle
of class I just fainted, blacked out. Can you believe when I woke up I still
didn’t go to the doctor because I had a test? Amazing isn’t it? Well I did end
up going two days later because I needed a note for my absences of the last two
days. I went for a routine visit to the emergency and didn’t come out for two
weeks. They did every test I have ever heard of and it turned out I have autoimmune
hepatitis. Which basically meant if my body was attacking my liver as though it
were foreign. It wasn’t until those
weeks in the hospital that I saw how I really looked black bags under my eyes,
lost 30 pounds without changing my lifestyle or diet, my hair falling out, and
worst of all my completion was yellow. As I laid in bed emotionless and with no
energy those first couple days my doctors all told me if I would have waited
just a little while longer I would have went in to complete liver failure. From
this I learned life is so precious and can’t be wasted over fears and work. You
only get to live once so why waste it doing only things you hate? You have to
appreciate the little things like family, a sunrise, a large soda at the
movies; hoping no one asks you for a sip.
You just have to live.
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