STEEMIT: The beginning of my Medical career

Hello steemit

Here' a story which I believe is going to lead to the beginning of my medical career to help impact to the world and help fight cancer in every possible way. I'll love you to read this to the end.

Fist off, i like to write about how i came to be aware of the steemit community. I was going through videos on YouTube and i saw a video by @jerrybanfield who was talking about steemit, i went through his channel and was surprised to see the response his videos were getting through comments because i had once been told about steemit by my brother @preciousdave but didn't take it serious at the time. However i decided to join the community. I've been going through the platform for sometime now and have been advised by many articles on how to be successful here that an introductory post would be the wisest way to start, so here's mine...

MY NAME IS VICTOR: HERE'S MY STORY

2007

I was 10 years old at the time ,coming back from school i was happy knowing that i am going to meet my mother who on her recent visit to the hospital have been there for over two weeks. She has been suffering from breast cancer for the past two years and has just given birth to a child some few months back who normally would have died because of the toxicity of the drugs she has been taking but miraculously have survived. We spoke on the phone yesterday and i told her that i have been missing her and her cooking for the past two weeks and couldn't wait for her to return. She laughed on the phone telling me not to worry that she was going to prepare my favorite jellof rice when she comes home.

20/9/2007

The day has been going really great for me and i was just excited about my mothers return. Running home from school that day i met a crowd in my house all wailing and crying. I knew something was wrong but i just couldn't get my mind around what it really was. I went inside to look for my mother but she was no where to be found i went to her room and it was still locked , no it just cant be , i ran outside to ask questions but i was given answers of louder wails and cries. I saw my father coming through the gate some minutes later and when he came closer, i just knew that something was really wrong because for the first time in my life i had just seen my father with tears in his eyes. My Mother has just passed the day she was going to come home. I shedded Uncontrollable and unending tears. Even when i wanted to stop, it just couldn't stop flowing.

Does this mean that I won't see my mother again ?

Does this mean that those encouraging words from Her won't be coming to my ears again?

Does this mean i was not going to eat my favorite ''MAMA's jellof'' again?

Wait what does this really mean?

These were questions that kept going through my mind as tears flowed from my eyes.

Cancer look what you've done to me

The rest of the day was just filled with mourning and visitors who were coming to give condolences. After that day I knew that things were not going to be the same no more. At first I was angry with her for leaving me and for not fulfilling the promise she had made to prepare my favorite dish but as i was growing i just realised that most times things happens that we have no control over .

Growing up without a MOM can be really tough and depressing sometimes especially when you see how other children are being pampered by their mothers and you really wished yours was there to do same to you. It took me quite sometime before i could get off the trauma it caused me. It was a terrible experience not only for me but for my dad and siblings because at that time he had just resigned from the manufacturing company he was working for, he had invested almost all he had into her various treatments which seemed to be going pretty well in the beginning but later was to no avail. since then it had seemed a little hard getting back from the shock and getting right back to our normal financial status.

I have always had a dream to become a medical doctor to help make the world a better place and try my best to help save other children's parents(with my career) and by any means help them not to go through the same dellima of loosing a parent at a very tender age. Struggling my way through high school with the after school jobs and help from some family members i graduated with one of the best results in my school.

HERE'S A LITTLE SOMETHING ABOUT MYSELF

Although i'm not happy about it, i happened to fall under the shy category and I have always dreamt of new ways of expressing myself and there came writing, knocking at the door and i opened, and is kind of a passion now.

I do love to learn to new things,i love challenging myself to be a better version of me everyday and most of all i definitely love to share my ideas (you can never tell who you might help), that's probably why the internet came to be what i tagged ''my second home''.

Since I was a child I have been fascinated by the medical field and my mothers death gave me more reason to want to be part of it. I have made plans to go to college this year and i know you guys can make it happen. How amazing it will be to tell people in the future that my medical journey began when i discovered steemit.

I have planned to go ''fulltime'' on steemit to be able to raise part of my tuition for college or all of it by your generosity in upvotes. However i strongly believe that ''you don't receive anything until you have earned it'' and hence, My main reason for being here is to try my best to impact to the world with my posts and to reach out to people and help them in anyway i can. I promise to put in my best to deliver good quality content to enhance the steemit community.

FINAL WORDS

I want to thank you for taking your time to read this and i want you to know that when you click on upvote you are helping raise a doctor and you are saving lives in your own way.

I'll also love you to follow me and i'm sure you are not going to regret doing so. Thanks again