This, is What I Believe - By Kendra Kiehn

Kendra Kiehn is a very family oriented, young adult. Her family and friends always come before herself. She also enjoys learning, education, and cooking in her free time. Making her family, friends, acquaintances, and the rest of the world happy, is what she wants for the rest of her life.

This, is What I Believe

It is approximately six years since the day I found out my mom had cervical cancer. She said “Kendra, nothing is impossible, we will get through this as a family, and always remember I love you.” I know my mom always tells the truth.
It was a big summer for me that year. I was about to be 13 years old. It was my last summer before I started high school. Summer was almost over and my mom had told my brother, sister, and me that she was going in for surgery soon. She told me it was a common surgery that a lot of doctors can do with their eyes closed. She was being sarcastic of course. The surgery was a hysterectomy. I had heard of it before from friends moms and felt like everything was going to be alright. A few weeks later I was visiting my mom after her surgery. All the nurses and doctors were acting sketchy, it seemed like they were hiding something. A week later, the day my family brought my mom home from the hospital, my dad pulled us kids aside. That was when I found out my parents lied, and my mom didn’t get a hysterectomy. My mom’s surgery was to remove cancerous cells.
When I was seven years old my grandma died of breast cancer. Back then I didn’t really understand what cancer was. I always figured since my grandma died of cancer, and my great grandpa died of cancer, then anyone who has cancer will die. So that day when my dad told me my mom had cancer, I thought my mom was going to die. I felt like my whole life was over.
Weeks went by and we were constantly taking my mom to chemo or radiation treatments. Months go by and my mom tells me she is cancer free. Biggest relief of my life, but it gets worse. Exactly a year later my mom was diagnosed a second time with cervical cancer. Turns out she didn’t have a great doctor and he didn’t go about treating the cancer the way he should have. I believed my mom would make it through it this time. She did it the first time. She is the strongest person I know, the best person in my heart, and I knew she could do it. After another surgery, more chemo, more radiation, and this time the loss of all her hair, my mom was cancer free, again. It is going on almost five years now since she has been cancer free. My mom did it. She proved to me that nothing is impossible.
Everyday people go through struggles, they always think they have the worst life. If you think about it, someone always has it worse then you. Challenges and obstacles only make us stronger. Anything is possible, just don’t let things bring you down. I believe nothing is impossible.