When I was sixteen years old I was diag-nosed with Leu-kemia. From then on every-thing chan-ged. Instant-ly I was admitted into the oncolo-gy hospital that was located in the medical center that my parents owned. Twelve surger-ies and one blood trans-fusion later I am still here. You may think that I feel angry about my situ-ation all of the time but I don t. Sure I have my bad days but I also have very good ones too.Before I know what is happen-ing Nurse Gwen and Dr. Jill are making their way into my room. Ready sweet-ie? Dr. Jill asks giving me a gentle smile. Ready. I reply getting ready for them to roll me to my thirteen-th surgery.