My whole family and I were at the hospital waiting to see how she came out of the surgery. At first we did not know if she was going to get her hearing and her sight back, it was too early to tell. One thing that we thought we knew was that she was going be alright, so we thought. We were sitting in waiting room because there was only 1 person allowed in the I C U room at a time. That’s when we got the news, my mom was not recovering from the surgery and we did not know if she would. We waited for about two hours, then we got the worst news I have ever hears in my life. My mom was going to die, and there was nothing I could do. The worst part of it was that she could not talk and we did not know if she could tell if we were there with her or not. After my family and I talked about it for a while the doctor came and told us that she was going to be transferred to a new room were we could all be with her. We were with my mom for about two or three more hours, then we decided to go home and come back tomorrow.
My oldest sister and I got home at about 7:30 on January 9th 2006. we were home for about an hour when I got the call, My mom had passed away at 8:49 PM. I did not know what to do, we had a bunch of people come over and comfort us but it did not help. Then my grandparents showed up they were the only ones that could make me feel even the slightest better, I will never forget that day. .
Stephen
Friday, April 10, 2009
Narrative: Body Paragraphs
It all started about 8 years ago. I was sitting at home when it got the news; I would never be the same again. It changed my life forever. My two sisters and I were just sitting at home. I was about ten years old at the time and my sisters ten and twelve. We were having a good day until my mom and my dad walked in the door crying.
As soon as I turned around I could tell something was not right. Something was defiantly wrong. My mom has tears rolling down her face, and you could tell that my dad had been crying. I went up to them and asked them what was wrong, but they would no give me an answer. Later that night they called me and my two sisters down to the family room for a family meeting. You could tell that there was something horrible going on. We all sat down and started to talk and that is when my parents informed me that my had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer.
After about a year of having the cancer and doing chemo therapy treatments she went back to the doctor to see if the cancer had slowed down or not. We found out some horrible news that day, her cancer had spread from her ovaries into her lungs. The doctor told us that she needed to have surgery done to cut the cancer lumps off of her lungs. We took my mom to the university of Utah hospital to have the surgery done. All of us were terrified. As soon as my mom was out of surgery we knew that she was going to be ok. We even thought that it may have stopped the cancer.
It was about a year later when my mom and I went to doctor again down at the University of Utah. I was waiting in the waiting room for what seemed like hours, and then my mom finally came out of the doctor’s office. She had a huge smile on her face, and that time I knew something good had happened. When we got home we sat down as a family again and that’s my mom told us that her cancer had gone into remission, but the doctor also said not to get to excited because there was high probability that it would come back.
Unfortunately the cancer did come back. About two years after it had come back we found out that the chemo was not working like we had hoped. We found out that the cancer had spread to her brain and that she needed to have another surgery and she needed it soon. She had been in the hospital for a month before Christmas, she was not healthy enough to come home but she insisted on it anyways, she would spend Christmas in the hospital. It was about a week after Christmas she was in the hospital again and she had gone completely blind and deaf in one ear. They transported her to a hospital in Ogden to have hr surgery. The day before she went into surgery I got admitted the hospital for kidney problems. I was in there for about a week then I got out. The day after I got out I went to visit my mom/ I will never forget that day.
As soon as I turned around I could tell something was not right. Something was defiantly wrong. My mom has tears rolling down her face, and you could tell that my dad had been crying. I went up to them and asked them what was wrong, but they would no give me an answer. Later that night they called me and my two sisters down to the family room for a family meeting. You could tell that there was something horrible going on. We all sat down and started to talk and that is when my parents informed me that my had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer.
After about a year of having the cancer and doing chemo therapy treatments she went back to the doctor to see if the cancer had slowed down or not. We found out some horrible news that day, her cancer had spread from her ovaries into her lungs. The doctor told us that she needed to have surgery done to cut the cancer lumps off of her lungs. We took my mom to the university of Utah hospital to have the surgery done. All of us were terrified. As soon as my mom was out of surgery we knew that she was going to be ok. We even thought that it may have stopped the cancer.
It was about a year later when my mom and I went to doctor again down at the University of Utah. I was waiting in the waiting room for what seemed like hours, and then my mom finally came out of the doctor’s office. She had a huge smile on her face, and that time I knew something good had happened. When we got home we sat down as a family again and that’s my mom told us that her cancer had gone into remission, but the doctor also said not to get to excited because there was high probability that it would come back.
Unfortunately the cancer did come back. About two years after it had come back we found out that the chemo was not working like we had hoped. We found out that the cancer had spread to her brain and that she needed to have another surgery and she needed it soon. She had been in the hospital for a month before Christmas, she was not healthy enough to come home but she insisted on it anyways, she would spend Christmas in the hospital. It was about a week after Christmas she was in the hospital again and she had gone completely blind and deaf in one ear. They transported her to a hospital in Ogden to have hr surgery. The day before she went into surgery I got admitted the hospital for kidney problems. I was in there for about a week then I got out. The day after I got out I went to visit my mom/ I will never forget that day.
Narrative: Conclusion
After all that, I still love California. I’m sick of Utah but I still realized that you have to live with the choices you make. No matter what your choices will fallow you. So stick it out and you will make it. Also you will always have to go through changes like me. I went from sunny all the time to the cold weather. Even in Utah I still have friends in California that I talk to every once and a while. I miss the sunny old days but I have learned that change isn’t always bad.
TY
TY
Narrative: Conclusion
After I found out that my dad was not my biological father our relationship kind of took a hit. Now that I am older and I understand more about the situation I couldn’t love my dad any more than I already do. I have learned that it is not you DNA that makes you related but the love and support that is given. Everyday that my dad and I spend together we learn more about eachother, and we have the greatest times. He had done more for me then anyone in the world has, and I know that he loves me. In the future if my kids could have half the dad that my dad is, I would be satisfied.
Karissa
Karissa
Friday, April 3, 2009
Narrative: Body Paragraphs
Going off of what I wrote last week. I still feel as if it was a lie and I’m switching subject to sobriety: about how I felt when I was high what led up to my sobriety what made me decide to become sober and how I feel now that I’m sober…how I felt when I was high?
I remember sitting there waiting for my dealer to call me back and tell me where the spot was and when I could pick up my happy time waiting for the time to pass. Tick tock tick tock goes the clock, wasted time of my life although this is bad for me I still felt like doing it and I loved it. As I drive to the spot grab my stuff and almost right away spark up a bowl. By now you probably feel like I do now that I’m sober “god I just want to smack this kid.” But wait before you get that image in your mind think about it put yourself in my shoes.
What led up to my sobriety and what made me decide to become sober I guess I really didn’t have a choice on whether I could still smoke or not because I got locked up. As I sat there still waiting for more time to pass waiting for my alarm clock to go off so I knew to get ready to go to work sleep deprived and erie. As I got up off of my broken down couch. Getting ready to go to work I was sick of it wanted to quit but damn that addiction I had to pay for it somehow I couldn’t steal from my mom she had no money to steal. I go to work pull ridonkulous shifts three shifts in a row seven to two, two to eleven, eleven to nine the next morning still sleep deprived I get on the city bus and wait to transfer as I get home my mother is waiting in the living room holding my special box. My special box that held my drugs covered in stickers of all sorts. That box in one hand her cellphone in the other getting ready to call my probation officer. I turn around and walk out pull out my cell and ext my friends “hey I need a place to crash is it cool if I come over” as I walked back to the bus stop I got a text and it said “not right now I’m at school later” I turn around and walk back to the house that some call home I call it hell. I walk through the door and told my mom that I didn’t want to do it anymore.
Too late the cops are on their way . I step outside to smoke and wait there for the cops to show up I sit there smoking cops show up I finish off the last thing that ill have for a little while. Sure I could have ran away but what’s the point of that ill just get more trouble that I don’t need I stand up empty my pockets get rid of my smokes lighter money and enerything else that makes me happy. Arrested and in the back of the cop car. The cop says on the radio we have a ten eighty seven from logan transport to dt paraphanelia domestic dispute. “domestic?” what did my mom tell you guys?
Alex
I remember sitting there waiting for my dealer to call me back and tell me where the spot was and when I could pick up my happy time waiting for the time to pass. Tick tock tick tock goes the clock, wasted time of my life although this is bad for me I still felt like doing it and I loved it. As I drive to the spot grab my stuff and almost right away spark up a bowl. By now you probably feel like I do now that I’m sober “god I just want to smack this kid.” But wait before you get that image in your mind think about it put yourself in my shoes.
What led up to my sobriety and what made me decide to become sober I guess I really didn’t have a choice on whether I could still smoke or not because I got locked up. As I sat there still waiting for more time to pass waiting for my alarm clock to go off so I knew to get ready to go to work sleep deprived and erie. As I got up off of my broken down couch. Getting ready to go to work I was sick of it wanted to quit but damn that addiction I had to pay for it somehow I couldn’t steal from my mom she had no money to steal. I go to work pull ridonkulous shifts three shifts in a row seven to two, two to eleven, eleven to nine the next morning still sleep deprived I get on the city bus and wait to transfer as I get home my mother is waiting in the living room holding my special box. My special box that held my drugs covered in stickers of all sorts. That box in one hand her cellphone in the other getting ready to call my probation officer. I turn around and walk out pull out my cell and ext my friends “hey I need a place to crash is it cool if I come over” as I walked back to the bus stop I got a text and it said “not right now I’m at school later” I turn around and walk back to the house that some call home I call it hell. I walk through the door and told my mom that I didn’t want to do it anymore.
Too late the cops are on their way . I step outside to smoke and wait there for the cops to show up I sit there smoking cops show up I finish off the last thing that ill have for a little while. Sure I could have ran away but what’s the point of that ill just get more trouble that I don’t need I stand up empty my pockets get rid of my smokes lighter money and enerything else that makes me happy. Arrested and in the back of the cop car. The cop says on the radio we have a ten eighty seven from logan transport to dt paraphanelia domestic dispute. “domestic?” what did my mom tell you guys?
Alex
Narrative Rough Draft
MOVING TO LEHI
Colton
When I was five years old my parents decided to build a house in Lehi. At the time I lived in a small rental house in Sandy UT on a main street. We lived next to an abandon house that had no windows or doors and it was all messed up. it proble had about thirty feral cats in it. That’s where my aunt got her cat.
When I turned six on my birthday there was a space shuttle coming back from space that flew right over my house. I was exited cause my parents told me that the reson it was flying over was for me sense it was my birthday and I believed them. Then about two weeks latter our parents told us that we where going to move to a new house with a backyard and a safe neighbor hood. They told us to get in the van so they could take us up to Lehi to see our new house being built. When we got there my cousins where already there and the house was only made out of would because that’s only how far they got when we went to see it.
My cousin Lilly and I went into where the kitchen was being built to sit on the floor and eat Wendy's kids meals. That was the first time I ever tried dipping fries in my frosty. Witch I have done I think every time I have gone to Wendys since. After we where done eating and looking abound we went out to the backyard to see how big it was. The ground was kind of muddy because it had rain earlier that day. I jumped out the back door and fell into a window well that I didn’t see and got a big scrape on my arm. My older brother Rhett helped me out cause I was to little to get out my self.
When everyone was done checking out the new house we all got in my van and headed home.
About three months latter our house was done and it was time to move in. my mother was really excited she was getting kind of upset that we where not packing fast enough. After we had all our stuff in boxes and bags my dad, bothers, and I had to take everything out side and get it ready for the moving truck. When the truck finely got there my dad didn’t let me help put all our stuff in the truck because he didn’t want me to get hurt witch made me cry cause I felt like I wanted to help more so he had me grab our dog Pecos witch was a puppy and he had me sit in front on the big moving truck. He told me that I could help by not letting the puppy run away and making sure she came with us.
When we got there my mom was already there along with some of my uncles waiting for us to get there to help us unpack. Right when we pulled up my brothers and I jumped out and ran into the house to pick witch rooms we wanted. Austin and I had to share a room and we wanted to sleep by our parents room so we got a small room right next to theres. My older brothers Rhett, and Jordan got a room right next to Austin’s and mine.
After about a month we had new neighbors move in next door. The Lowes. That’s when Austin and I met Ryan Lowe. At first Ryan and I didn’t get along cause for some reason he liked to kick me in the legs all the time and I would come home from his house with bruises on my shins but after a wile we became closer and we have been friends ever since.
When my dad finished our basement Jordan and I moved down stairs witch gave Austin and I our own rooms I got the bigger room with is bigger then my parents room and is the same room I am in still today. My parents let me choose the carpet color and wall color. I don’t know why I chose the walls to be blue and the carpet to be green but that’s what I go.
Now sense we have lived in that house for thirteen years now we have had so many memories in it that I think it will be really hard to move out of witch is funny cause my parents original plan was to stay there for only three years.
Colton
When I was five years old my parents decided to build a house in Lehi. At the time I lived in a small rental house in Sandy UT on a main street. We lived next to an abandon house that had no windows or doors and it was all messed up. it proble had about thirty feral cats in it. That’s where my aunt got her cat.
When I turned six on my birthday there was a space shuttle coming back from space that flew right over my house. I was exited cause my parents told me that the reson it was flying over was for me sense it was my birthday and I believed them. Then about two weeks latter our parents told us that we where going to move to a new house with a backyard and a safe neighbor hood. They told us to get in the van so they could take us up to Lehi to see our new house being built. When we got there my cousins where already there and the house was only made out of would because that’s only how far they got when we went to see it.
My cousin Lilly and I went into where the kitchen was being built to sit on the floor and eat Wendy's kids meals. That was the first time I ever tried dipping fries in my frosty. Witch I have done I think every time I have gone to Wendys since. After we where done eating and looking abound we went out to the backyard to see how big it was. The ground was kind of muddy because it had rain earlier that day. I jumped out the back door and fell into a window well that I didn’t see and got a big scrape on my arm. My older brother Rhett helped me out cause I was to little to get out my self.
When everyone was done checking out the new house we all got in my van and headed home.
About three months latter our house was done and it was time to move in. my mother was really excited she was getting kind of upset that we where not packing fast enough. After we had all our stuff in boxes and bags my dad, bothers, and I had to take everything out side and get it ready for the moving truck. When the truck finely got there my dad didn’t let me help put all our stuff in the truck because he didn’t want me to get hurt witch made me cry cause I felt like I wanted to help more so he had me grab our dog Pecos witch was a puppy and he had me sit in front on the big moving truck. He told me that I could help by not letting the puppy run away and making sure she came with us.
When we got there my mom was already there along with some of my uncles waiting for us to get there to help us unpack. Right when we pulled up my brothers and I jumped out and ran into the house to pick witch rooms we wanted. Austin and I had to share a room and we wanted to sleep by our parents room so we got a small room right next to theres. My older brothers Rhett, and Jordan got a room right next to Austin’s and mine.
After about a month we had new neighbors move in next door. The Lowes. That’s when Austin and I met Ryan Lowe. At first Ryan and I didn’t get along cause for some reason he liked to kick me in the legs all the time and I would come home from his house with bruises on my shins but after a wile we became closer and we have been friends ever since.
When my dad finished our basement Jordan and I moved down stairs witch gave Austin and I our own rooms I got the bigger room with is bigger then my parents room and is the same room I am in still today. My parents let me choose the carpet color and wall color. I don’t know why I chose the walls to be blue and the carpet to be green but that’s what I go.
Now sense we have lived in that house for thirteen years now we have had so many memories in it that I think it will be really hard to move out of witch is funny cause my parents original plan was to stay there for only three years.
Narrative: Body Paragraphs
I just remember looking out my window and seeing a moving truck driven by my mother. I hadn’t seen her since I was Five years old so I don’t really know what she looked like I just knew it was her. Yea I was raised by my brother next thing I know I see my stuff getting loaded up in the truck it was one of the worst moments for me was saying good bye to my old life my girl and my friends.
Seeing my mother for the first time in a while was a cool moment seeing her was a happy moment because I still loved my mother. Even thou she wasn’t there for me most of my life, which sucks. My brother raised me and that was one of the hardest choices my mother ever had to make but she could finally take care of me .
The trip out here was the most quiet trip even though the music was on and I had my headphones in and I was texting my homies and my girl. When my mother did talk she just asked how I’ve been I ignored her. When I saw the Utah state line I started to feel more depressed than when I left California.
In the first year I was in Utah the first month I got locked up and I went to Farmington bay o&a after that I got put on probation. I was on that for a year before I violated it by drinking. On July first I got sent to dt again eight days later I got sent to proctor care I feel bad for it. And now I’ve been in it for almost a year.
Ty
Seeing my mother for the first time in a while was a cool moment seeing her was a happy moment because I still loved my mother. Even thou she wasn’t there for me most of my life, which sucks. My brother raised me and that was one of the hardest choices my mother ever had to make but she could finally take care of me .
The trip out here was the most quiet trip even though the music was on and I had my headphones in and I was texting my homies and my girl. When my mother did talk she just asked how I’ve been I ignored her. When I saw the Utah state line I started to feel more depressed than when I left California.
In the first year I was in Utah the first month I got locked up and I went to Farmington bay o&a after that I got put on probation. I was on that for a year before I violated it by drinking. On July first I got sent to dt again eight days later I got sent to proctor care I feel bad for it. And now I’ve been in it for almost a year.
Ty
Narrative: Body Paragraphs
My mom was young, in college and having the time of her life. She was working a great job in a doctor’s office and loved every part of it. She met a very attractive guy that worked there and she thought she had fallen in love. My mom thought that their relationship was serious and that he was the one that she would marry. She believed that she could trust him, but that all changed when she found out that he was married. My mom left him but faced another challenge that would change her life forever.
When my mom found out that she was pregnant, she was single and very scared. She lived with roommates and had no clue what she would do with a kid. Her friends were very supportive and told her that they would help her out any way that they could. After I was finally born my mom couldn’t be any happier, but it was still hard for her to raise me by herself.
Soon after I was born, my mom met a night in shinning armor. She knew that Justin would be a great dad and a fantastic husband. They soon got married and of course I was the flower girl at the wedding. They moved into a cute little house and started a new family and a new life together. My mom and I were the happiest we could ever be.
After my sisters were born, my dad really wanted to get the papers signed so that I was legally his daughter. He had wanted to adopt me for a long time but he had many obstacles. He was diagnosed with cancer but fought if off after a year. Finally he was healthy and able to go to the courts.
I was young so I don’t remember much of the court process, but I’m sure that it was really long. We spent most of the morning signing papers and talking to people about the same thing over and over again. Finally they approved the request and I was legally my dad’s daughter. After we were done at the courthouse, my parents took me to breakfast. The one thing that I vividly remember about the whole day was having the most delicious chocolate milk in the entire world. My parents and I were so happy and we have been ever since.
Karissa
When my mom found out that she was pregnant, she was single and very scared. She lived with roommates and had no clue what she would do with a kid. Her friends were very supportive and told her that they would help her out any way that they could. After I was finally born my mom couldn’t be any happier, but it was still hard for her to raise me by herself.
Soon after I was born, my mom met a night in shinning armor. She knew that Justin would be a great dad and a fantastic husband. They soon got married and of course I was the flower girl at the wedding. They moved into a cute little house and started a new family and a new life together. My mom and I were the happiest we could ever be.
After my sisters were born, my dad really wanted to get the papers signed so that I was legally his daughter. He had wanted to adopt me for a long time but he had many obstacles. He was diagnosed with cancer but fought if off after a year. Finally he was healthy and able to go to the courts.
I was young so I don’t remember much of the court process, but I’m sure that it was really long. We spent most of the morning signing papers and talking to people about the same thing over and over again. Finally they approved the request and I was legally my dad’s daughter. After we were done at the courthouse, my parents took me to breakfast. The one thing that I vividly remember about the whole day was having the most delicious chocolate milk in the entire world. My parents and I were so happy and we have been ever since.
Karissa
Narrative: Body Paragraphs
Two hours later I went and pick up my siblings to take them to my friends house, but first I had to get the mail from my old house
So my siblings and I arrived at the apartment complex we use to live at and started toward the mailbox when the magna police department pulled up and blocked me into the complex, at the time my family was on the run from DCFS.
They pulled next to the car I was driving, and was looked in
And saw my siblings inside and ask them to get out, so my three yr. old little brother Braxton got out first, then my four yr. Old brother Tony, then my little five yr. Old Sister Kirsten. They put my brothers in the back of the cop car then they told my little sister to get in the front of the cop car, but she seen me, and tried to run to me but the cop threw her on the ground. She was crying and her knees were scraped and bloody.
That made me very mad, so when the cop was picking my little sister up I grabbed a fist sized rock and hit the officer in the back of the head. A couple seconds later four other officers jumped on top of me, then put me in handcuffs and took me to DT. They told me I was getting charged with assault on a police officer with a deadly weapon.
Court didn’t go as I wished, The judge told me that I was going to long tem for five months then have another review to see if I could be placed in the foster home my sibling were in.
Five moths pass slowly as a snail; I went to the review and was Able to go to the same foster home as my siblings.
Three short months, that all I was in foster care, the foster parent’s ask if we would like to be adopted and my siblings and I
Agreed. To see the joy in my mother and father’s eyes were like being kissed by an angel! Breath taking as if you found something you’ve always searched for, then one day it’s right there and you couldn’t be any happier.
MARCH 17, 2007.the day I was waiting for, the big day,
The day I get adopted, the day of all days.
Now my siblings and I are happy and loved more then ever
Thinking that what started as a bad thing, ended up as the best thing.
By: Kirk
So my siblings and I arrived at the apartment complex we use to live at and started toward the mailbox when the magna police department pulled up and blocked me into the complex, at the time my family was on the run from DCFS.
They pulled next to the car I was driving, and was looked in
And saw my siblings inside and ask them to get out, so my three yr. old little brother Braxton got out first, then my four yr. Old brother Tony, then my little five yr. Old Sister Kirsten. They put my brothers in the back of the cop car then they told my little sister to get in the front of the cop car, but she seen me, and tried to run to me but the cop threw her on the ground. She was crying and her knees were scraped and bloody.
That made me very mad, so when the cop was picking my little sister up I grabbed a fist sized rock and hit the officer in the back of the head. A couple seconds later four other officers jumped on top of me, then put me in handcuffs and took me to DT. They told me I was getting charged with assault on a police officer with a deadly weapon.
Court didn’t go as I wished, The judge told me that I was going to long tem for five months then have another review to see if I could be placed in the foster home my sibling were in.
Five moths pass slowly as a snail; I went to the review and was Able to go to the same foster home as my siblings.
Three short months, that all I was in foster care, the foster parent’s ask if we would like to be adopted and my siblings and I
Agreed. To see the joy in my mother and father’s eyes were like being kissed by an angel! Breath taking as if you found something you’ve always searched for, then one day it’s right there and you couldn’t be any happier.
MARCH 17, 2007.the day I was waiting for, the big day,
The day I get adopted, the day of all days.
Now my siblings and I are happy and loved more then ever
Thinking that what started as a bad thing, ended up as the best thing.
By: Kirk
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