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“Oh my Goddess John, It’s positive!” I choke out. “No way. There’s no way it’s positive.” “Why would I lie about this”, I argue, whipping the bathroom door open to find my son’s father holding our son, Chance, with the most bewildered look on his face. “Here, trade me,” I demanded as I took my son from his father and passed the man the positive, pink pregnancy test to confirm his doubts. Having another baby was the last thing either of us expected. This was our first and only week home in between Chance’s chemotherapy treatments since his had been diagnosis with Acute Myeloid Leukemia six weeks prior on October 6th, 2011. John and I had separated three weeks before Chance became sick; we were not even a couple anymore. This would be another …show more content…

During this pregnancy I was sick all of the time, I was hardly able to hold anything down for a long period of time, and I was unable to sit through a meal without having to excuse myself. If I ate too much, I threw up; if I didn’t eat enough the night before I would wake up with stomach pain and dry heaving. The nights were nearly sleepless before I picked my head up off of the pillow in the morning. I tried everything I could think of to curb the nausea, often times I would even throw up the anti-nausea medicine before it had time to work. With each one of my OB appointments I weighed less and the doctors were concerned that the baby’s growth would be affected; however, even with the weight loss, I was fortunate that she still grew at the normal …show more content…

I love the meaning behind a person’s name and I love uncommon names because I feel they resonate more than names you hear more frequently. I named my son Chance because it was not a name commonly used and meant, “Having good fortune”. I still had the baby name book from when I was pregnant with my son and decided to finger through it looking for ideas. I came across the page where I had listed possible girl names that had caught my attention and at the top of the list was the name Halo. That was it! I searched the pages looking for the meaning behind the name and found it means, “Having a blessed aura.” She had been my halo from the beginning, before I even knew what I had or how lucky I was, the name was so fitting! I played around with many middle names trying to fit in which one sounded best after Halo and before Rae, which was to be her second middle name. Ultimately it was my youngest sister that suggested I try using Scarlett and Halo Scarlett Rae became the name I chose for

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