Though I am young and inexperienced about life I have
realized that hope and optimism are the propellants that help us reach our
goals and achieve our dreams.
What experience led me to this conclusion is as follows. I
live with my mother who is chronically ill. My family consists of me, my mother
and my father who is posted in another city. As a result I am the one who looks
after my mother. Since she remains ill quite often by the time I reached class
ten, I had seen almost all the hospitals in our city as I used to take my
mother for treatment to one hospital or the other. So much interaction with the
doctors and the hospital staff left me very impressed with the medical
profession. So much so that I decided to become a doctor myself and pursue the
noble profession of medicine. Thus I opted for science subjects in school. I
worked hard and appeared for the medical entrance exams after passing out of
school. My papers went well and I hoped that I would get a seat in a medical
college in my own city. However destiny had other plans for me. When the
results came my name was not in the merit list. My dreams were shattered, I did
not know what to do. It was the darkest hour of my life. Then my mother
appeared as the harbinger of hope and optimism. She suggested that if I were
serious about pursuing the medical profession then I can give it another try next
year. In the meantime I could join the college of nursing. This would do two
things. One it would keep me connected with the medical profession and secondly
what I study at the nursing college would come in handy after I join a medical
college the next year.
My mother’s inspirational words showed me the path that
would take me closer to my goals and so I joined the nursing college. I studied
diligently at the college and in the free time prepared for the medical
entrance exams for the following year. As the exams drew close my preparations
reached a feverish pitch. That was also the time when my grandmother came to
our house for a few days stay.
Just two days before the exam she fell unconscious. My
mother who discovered her in this condition started panicking and started
calling out my name. I rushed to the scene and we decided to call the ambulance
and take her to the hospital. As my mother went to call up the ambulance I
started examining my grandmother. I found that she was not breathing. Seeing her
in this condition I broke into a cold sweat. Then I realized that I was being
trained as a nurse so I used that knowledge and started giving my grandmother
CPR (artificial breathing). After every few minutes I checked her pulse and
breathing. Soon she coughed and started breathing normally. I was greatly
relieved. Then the doctor and the ambulance arrived . They did her ECG and did
a check-up. When they came to know about what I had just done, they patted my
back and congratulated me. I then realized how useful the nursing training had
been for me. Had I not listened to my mother and joined a nursing college, I
would have been deprived of the knowledge that saved my grand mothers life.
For me this was a big achievement that brought a smile to my
face and became a great morale booster for me. The hope and optimism given to me by my mother
had today made me a life saver . Is it not what I had always wanted to do by
becoming a doctor?
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