Introduction to A Life Changing Disease

My final piece of writing is my writer's choice piece. It was my second major writing assignment titled A life changing Disease and was written May 2007. The reason why I chose to share this piece was because it was my first time writing about something really personal. I chose to define the word cancer and talked about how it related to me by describing my mom's journey with cancer. I think the hardest part was trying to organize my emotions and thoughts into an essay; however, I think that they came across clearly and made my paper have a stronger voice. An example of this would be "Hearing the word cancer now I never think about the medical definition of abnormal cells multiplying throughout the body; I think of my mother." That quote shows that feelings are Strong for my mother and what she is going though.