The two articles

The article “Before I Go” is Paul Kalanithi explaining what he wants to do before he dies and he wants to live  long enough, so that his daughter will remember him. He is a neurosurgical training at Stanford University but he was diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer. Paul says he started to get symptoms as the time went on. he enjoyed being in the OR because he knew what to do and when to do it. Paul also knew the strategies of what you should do as a surgeon. In the article “My Marriage didn’t end When I came a Widow” Lucy Kalanithi talks about how she was emotionally when he died. Lucy felt like she couldn’t live her life without him. Lucy and Paul met in 2003 as first-year medical students at Stanford University. They got married and 10 years after they met Paul’s health level had began to fall. They had planned to go to Portugal for their 20^th anniversary, where they spent their honeymoon but when they found out about Paul’s heath they immediately went.  Paul was getting weaker every day the chemotherapy was coming out of his skin, it was very painful and he couldn’t do what he wanted.  Paul started to write about training as a neurosurgeon and then learning that he had only a year or two to live, which led to a book proposal. They had a daughter named Cady and Paul wanted to spend his last with his family. Lucy couldn’t sleep very well without Paul and she always tried to sleep with the pillow that he died on to sleep better. One day she went out to where he was buried and rested next to him and got some sleep because she knew that he was laying right next to her. Lucy began to start moving on by taking her wedding ring off 6 months later she thinks it was time.

The day that changed my life

There was a day that changed my life. My sister passed away in September which is the month of her birthday her birthday is September 24. That day was a wonderful day for her because she wanted to have all her family there for her birthday and they came and celebrated with her on her special day. There was family all around where she was so I really couldn’t get to her like I wanted to and my mind was somewhere else it was my schoolwork I had to take a test online and I was very upset about it because I could’ve been with my sister spending time with her. I got done with my test and I tried to go sit by her for a little while so we could talk but it was a lot of noise in the background so we just sat there. I went outside to go spend some time with the family I’ve been outside most of the time until it was time to sing happy birthday to her. She couldn’t have the cake smashed in her face because of her oxygen so I did for her. When we were singing happy birthday to her she had a good spirit and was dancing like she always did. Somehow, she knew that it was her last day to be with us. I was too busy being outside with the rest of the family that I didn’t really have time to spend the day with my sister. Something told me to leave the house and go to the store or something so I did and on the way back I felt something was wrong so when I pulled up at the house my cousin told me to come in the house and she was crying and somebody else said “she doesn’t know yet do she” so I was really worried about my sister so I tried to run inside to see what was wrong and she passed away. It’s been very hard for me to realize that she is gone but I know that she is still here in spirit. She has gotten sick and weak to really do anything but she made it through her birthday and she was very happy. My advice to you all is to make sure you spend a lot of time with your loved ones because you don’t know when it’s there last.