The Moment That Changed Everything Two and a half years ago in the month of November my mother's heart quit on her while she was working; she was claimed dead for three minutes. I was at school when this happened. I just got off the school bus and noticed all the cars missing from my house; when I realized no one was home, well I naturally figured my mother was at work and her boyfriend was probably at the bar where he was employed. I didn't think much of it. It was Friday and it was my father's weekend to have us so I ran into my room and started getting my clothes packed as fast as I could because I knew it wouldn't be long 'till my father got to my house to pick my sister and I up. He arrived and my sister went ahead and went out to the car with him. I, on the other hand, was still trying to get ready so I was rushing to get ready and on my way out the door the phone rang. I decided to go ahead and answer it. It was my mother's boyfriend and he was crying and calling from the hospital. He told me my mother was in the hospital her heart quit and she was claimed dead for a few minutes and is being care flighted to a heart hospital in Dayton Ohio and that she was also put on a vent because she wasn't breathing on her own. That was all I was told. I walked out my father's car bawling while they were looking at me wondering why I was crying. I got in the car and they asked, so I told them what my mother's boyfriend had told me. It was a long ride to my dad's house. We got there and my aunt calls me on my cell phone telling me how my sister and I was gong to live with her on the weekends and with my mother's best friend during school days since she lived close to the school. It didn't matter anyway because I barely went to school while she was in the hospital. I spent my time there with my mother. The first day I went to see her she kept asking where she was, why she was there, where was my sister, and told me she loved me and just kept repeating these things. Seven days later she still didn't remember anything. The doctors pulled the family aside and told us that my mother had had a heart attack and has congested heart failure. Her heart is way to big and most of it is not functional. She has little heart left and the doctors say she has maybe 3 years left to live. She needs a heart transplant but the doctors will not put her on the waiting list because she will never be strong enough to go threw the surgery so she has a pace maker and defibulater. I live on my own now several states away from my mother and her health is not good and I feel so guilty for not being there for her and not being able to help her. She will not let me even send her money to help her out. I love my mom so much that losing her the first time killed me; I can't deal with losing her again. All of this happening to my mother is why it is the moment that changed everything. Before this happened my mother and I used to fight all of the time and I didn’t want nothing to do with her. Also before this happened I didn’t care about school or what I was going to do in my life. But after I lost my mom even for that 3 minutes it changed my life. I started to care about school because I knew that my mom wanted me to graduate and go to college. I ended up graduating high school in November of 2006, 7 months before the rest of my class of my mates of 2007. My mom and I are now closer then ever even though I am 700 miles away. Even though I feel guilty for being far a way because of her health, it is because of her that I am staying in Virginia. She says she is so proud of me because I moved to better myself. I moved for a better job, college, and to be with my fiancé. She has never been prouder of me.
The moment that changed everything Life is very unpredictable. Life guarantees you to experiences ups and downs, some people want to have a perfect life, but there are times when certain moments change everything. We will never know what that moment will be but one day one moment will change everybody’s life. Please understand my moment that changed everything. In the early days my family loved each other dearly. We had the perfect bond. We loved each other like kids loved candy. My mother and father were the perfect couple, of course they weren’t rich but they were wealthy enough to provide for me and my brother. One day my mother was complaining about pain in her back. I would say “momma, momma what’s wrong?” she would simply reply “nothing baby I’m ok just tired.” It was crazy because she would say the same thing over and over again. I was too young to understand so I was scared and I didn’t know what to do or what was going to happen. As the days went by my father told us that my mother was sick and she was diagnosed with lung cancer. He told us that she had to stay in the hospital until she got better. My mother was sick for a very long time. Day and nigh, night and day we would go and visit her bring her flowers, cards and candy. We would do anything in our power to try to make her feel better. The doctor told us that he didn’t know for sure if she was going to me ok. It’s hard seeing your mother on life support machines. The life support machines didn’t help as much as we thought they would. Days and nights passed by and my mother laid there helpless in the hospital bed. One day we finally got the call that we needed to come to the hospital for emergency purposes. The doctor told us that Doris Baynes had passed away; everybody’s face is in shock. We couldn’t believe what we heard. Unfortunately I didn’t make it to the funeral because I was in to much pain to show up. After her death my dad went crazy and left me and my brother, leaving us with nowhere to go. My sister finally took us in and took care of us. A lot of my family didn’t stick together after that. We tried so hard to but it was not easy. Lots of people struggled and till this day we still struggle. Now today in 2007 my family is doing ok. We are all keeping in contact with each other and we are working things out. My father finally came around and decided to be a father and stop running away from his problems. I, my brothers and my sister still hold a tight bond. The moment that changed everything was the day when my mom passed away. We love her so much and we will never forget her. R.I.P Doris Baynes.
The moment that changed for me started in 2000, when, my mother passed away from an open brain Operation in order to stop the pressure on her brain. Leaving 4 children behind, we were taken in by my Grandmother. After a few months of my mother’s passing, we relocated to South Carolina where my Grandmother grew up. This was a very big change for us, being that we moved from a city that had lot of Street lights to where a place that had very little street lights, but it was a much needed change. Still living With the pain of mother’s passing, my grandmother passed away four years after my mother do to Problems with her heart. I felt that life was really over for me but I just knew that I had to keep the fight strong. This Was one of the most painful things I faced since my mother passed away in 2000. When my grandmother Passed away my aunt was there all the way. She even took us in her home and treated us like her kids, which was very heart warming for us who were losing everyone and everyone that was around. Just after a few years I finally keep it together to finish high school and moved to Virginia Beach shortly after. Now attending ECPI College of Technology in Virginia Beach, VA, I feel that it is very Important to stay positive in everything, because I know how hard it is out in the real world. Also, I feel That with the help of great teachers I will become the best networking manager ever to hit the work force. Not only that, I doing so that my family don’t have to look for the next meal or when the next check is coming in, but most of all I’m doing this for me as well. I believe that if you don’t help yourself then how will you be able to help the next person struggling. Also, because both my mother and grandmother made changes in their life in order for us to be successful in life. Attending ECPI is one of the best choices I ever made in life for the sample fact that, most of My pears today are dead or in jail, but most died trying to live the street life. I stay ECPI has changed my Life, because it a good look for me as a growing black man and as an older brother. Mainly I want to Show little brother and sister that it is better ways out than living the street life, because it just a matter of Time before someone takes your life or freedom. Basically my goal is show everyone that no matter what You face in life its always positive sides as well and I’m living proof of that. This is truly the moment that has changed my life and now I get to change the lives around ,e in a positive way as well.
Septemeber.22.2004. It was my first day of boot camp. I didn’t know what I was about to get myself into. As soon as we all got to the base in Chicago, Illinois, I was getting yelled at. Already, and I wasn’t even there for 5 minutes. We all were told to make a line, after we got off the bus. The instructor led us to this big, brown building. “Face the bulkhead.” One of the instructors yelled. The first thing I did was looked around, to see what the hell the instructor was talking about. “The bulkhead?” I asked myself. “Recruit, I said face the bulkhead.” I then turn my head to look at him. “Don’t eye-ball me, Recruit. Face the bulkhead. The wall Recruit. The wall.” “ Oh, that’s what the bulkhead is.” I thought to myself. “You Recruits have entered into a whole new world. We don’t have floors, ceilings, walls, bathroom, or water fountain here. Here, we have decks, overheads, bulkheads, heads, and scuttlebutts.” Tears immediately came to my face, because I didn’t know what I have gotten myself into. They then led us all into a room, to take our information’s. Once again, I got yelled at for picking up my “Pee Cup” before told to do so. So the lady instructor that was there sends me out side to walk around the “scuttlebutt” for about two hours. Each time I walk around it, I had to stop and drink a sip of water from the water fountain. I am sorry, the “scuttlebutt.” For the next three weeks, my life continues to get worse. I wish more and more, that I wouldn’t have done what I did. I finally get to see my twin brother for the first time in 3 weeks, since we have been separated. We made eye contact with each other. Me. being the person hat I am. I waived to him. “Recruit, what the hell do you think you are doing in my ranks?” Shouted my RDC. We got back to where we have been calling our home for the pass three weeks. My RDC called me into his office. I explained to him that I saw my twin brother. He made an arrangement for us to see, and spend at least two hours with each other every Sunday. Which was a Holiday for us? After six weeks of being in boot camp, things started getting a little easier. We weren’t getting yelled at as much. We got more respect from everyone around us. Then we started looking at others on there first day. After eight weeks, we finally graduated from boot camp. We all got our orders to where we will be at for the next two to three years of our career in the Navy. It’s been over three years since I have been in the Navy. I have been to a lot of places and I have seen many different faces. I have met many different people from different cultures. I would not change that for nothing.
It was September 15, 1996. That day will stand out for the rest of my life, because that day was career at my high school. The week before that day my mother was on me about; what are you going to do after high school? I had already put off taking the S.A.T exam. So the entire upper class has to attend this career in the gymnasiums. I went in their not knowing what I was going to do with the rest of my life. Man I was only 17 years old. After an hour are so of roaming around their. This guy is a white suit stop me and ask “hey son want to travel the world and go to college at the same time” So I said yeah, what would I have to do. Petty Officer Smith told me all you would have to do is join the Navy. I didn’t know anything about the Navy or what they did. So I sign my name in the dotted line. When he review my information, he told my I wasn’t a legal age to enroll by my self. I should have run then, but the craziest then came out of my mouth. Well what happens do now, he told me call your parents. After I left school that day I talked with my parents. Next thing I know I on a plane heading to Great Lakes Illinois. Then when the bus stops I have this guy yelled get off the bus. Now I’m wondering what I got myself into. This is the scariest place I’ve ever been.
The Moment That Change Everything It was a rainy day on the muddy field of Riverdale stadium and the winds where gusting & the Cold air was bounding on the flesh of the fans as there cheers began to vibrate the whole surroundings. The turf was ripped to pieces as the players where exhausted by the beating they where giving each other and plus Mother Nature was right along with them. But which beating was worse the sport announcer blasted out! Coach Ryan just called a time out for the left hook bulldogs, there in need of a score to win the game it going to take a miracle because the golden Trojans defense is a raging torch they have been heating up the bulldog’s offense all evening. Coach Ryan pulls Ricky pickle juice out the game the leading quarterback and replaces him for Donnell Watkins. When he runs in the field the crowds boo’s
The birth of my daughter was the most changing moment of my life. Even though I had two sons, a fathers’ life is not really complete, until a daughter is entered into their life and heart. It was on the 7th of November; my wife went into labor. She was awaking me early that morning. Saying it’s time, I was so excited that I almost drove with out her. We got to the hospital (together), once there she went into the last stage of labor very quickly. As I paced back and forth the waiting room floor the doctor came in to inform me that my wife had just deliver a health baby girl. It took a moment to sink into my brain that I have a daughter. I wasn’t exactly sure on how deal with a baby girl, with my wife in the military and gone all the time. I mean the boys were easy, but a girl how much of a different would it make? As the nurse brought my daughter in the room and place her in my arms. It was like if she was the very first baby I have ever held. Man, she was a beautiful baby and to add to the excitement her first smile on this earth was give to me. If I had any doubts about being a father, her smile eased them. It was definitely going to be intersning to learn how to separate rising a daughter to raising a son. For instance give her a bath was going to be likely different then the boys, instant of playing shoot up her , I guess I would have to start playing dress up, and oh, lets not even talk about dealing with the boys calling. But as my little girl grows into a woman, I finally truly understand the meaning of the fracse “Daddy’s Little Girl”. So all you so to be father out there beware of the daughter cause there is no other woman in the world that well capture your heart and hold like Daddy’s Little Girl.
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The Moment That Changed Everything
Two and a half years ago in the month of November my mother's heart quit on her while she was working; she was claimed dead for three minutes. I was at school when this happened. I just got off the school bus and noticed all the cars missing from my house; when I realized no one was home, well I naturally figured my mother was at work and her boyfriend was probably at the bar where he was employed. I didn't think much of it. It was Friday and it was my father's weekend to have us so I ran into my room and started getting my clothes packed as fast as I could because I knew it wouldn't be long 'till my father got to my house to pick my sister and I up. He arrived and my sister went ahead and went out to the car with him. I, on the other hand, was still trying to get ready so I was rushing to get ready and on my way out the door the phone rang.
I decided to go ahead and answer it. It was my mother's boyfriend and he was crying and calling from the hospital. He told me my mother was in the hospital her heart quit and she was claimed dead for a few minutes and is being care flighted to a heart hospital in Dayton Ohio and that she was also put on a vent because she wasn't breathing on her own. That was all I was told. I walked out my father's car bawling while they were looking at me wondering why I was crying. I got in the car and they asked, so I told them what my mother's boyfriend had told me. It was a long ride to my dad's house. We got there and my aunt calls me on my cell phone telling me how my sister and I was gong to live with her on the weekends and with my mother's best friend during school days since she lived close to the school. It didn't matter anyway because I barely went to school while she was in the hospital.
I spent my time there with my mother. The first day I went to see her she kept asking where she was, why she was there, where was my sister, and told me she loved me and just kept repeating these things. Seven days later she still didn't remember anything. The doctors pulled the family aside and told us that my mother had had a heart attack and has congested heart failure. Her heart is way to big and most of it is not functional. She has little heart left and the doctors say she has maybe 3 years left to live. She needs a heart transplant but the doctors will not put her on the waiting list because she will never be strong enough to go threw the surgery so she has a pace maker and defibulater. I live on my own now several states away from my mother and her health is not good and I feel so guilty for not being there for her and not being able to help her. She will not let me even send her money to help her out. I love my mom so much that losing her the first time killed me; I can't deal with losing her again.
All of this happening to my mother is why it is the moment that changed everything. Before this happened my mother and I used to fight all of the time and I didn’t want nothing to do with her. Also before this happened I didn’t care about school or what I was going to do in my life. But after I lost my mom even for that 3 minutes it changed my life. I started to care about school because I knew that my mom wanted me to graduate and go to college. I ended up graduating high school in November of 2006, 7 months before the rest of my class of my mates of 2007. My mom and I are now closer then ever even though I am 700 miles away. Even though I feel guilty for being far a way because of her health, it is because of her that I am staying in Virginia. She says she is so proud of me because I moved to better myself. I moved for a better job, college, and to be with my fiancé. She has never been prouder of me.
The moment that changed everything
Life is very unpredictable. Life guarantees you to experiences ups and downs, some people want to have a perfect life, but there are times when certain moments change everything. We will never know what that moment will be but one day one moment will change everybody’s life. Please understand my moment that changed everything.
In the early days my family loved each other dearly. We had the perfect bond. We loved each other like kids loved candy. My mother and father were the perfect couple, of course they weren’t rich but they were wealthy enough to provide for me and my brother. One day my mother was complaining about pain in her back. I would say “momma, momma what’s wrong?” she would simply reply “nothing baby I’m ok just tired.”
It was crazy because she would say the same thing over and over again. I was too young to understand so I was scared and I didn’t know what to do or what was going to happen.
As the days went by my father told us that my mother was sick and she was diagnosed with lung cancer. He told us that she had to stay in the hospital until she got better. My mother was sick for a very long time. Day and nigh, night and day we would go and visit her bring her flowers, cards and candy. We would do anything in our power to try to make her feel better. The doctor told us that he didn’t know for sure if she was going to me ok. It’s hard seeing your mother on life support machines. The life support machines didn’t help as much as we thought they would.
Days and nights passed by and my mother laid there helpless in the hospital bed. One day we finally got the call that we needed to come to the hospital for emergency purposes. The doctor told us that Doris Baynes had passed away; everybody’s face is in shock. We couldn’t believe what we heard. Unfortunately I didn’t make it to the funeral because I was in to much pain to show up. After her death my dad went crazy and left me and my brother, leaving us with nowhere to go. My sister finally took us in and took care of us. A lot of my family didn’t stick together after that. We tried so hard to but it was not easy. Lots of people struggled and till this day we still struggle.
Now today in 2007 my family is doing ok. We are all keeping in contact with each other and we are working things out. My father finally came around and decided to be a father and stop running away from his problems. I, my brothers and my sister still hold a tight bond. The moment that changed everything was the day when my mom passed away. We love her so much and we will never forget her. R.I.P Doris Baynes.
The Moment that changed everything
The moment that changed for me started in 2000, when, my mother passed away from an open
brain Operation in order to stop the pressure on her brain. Leaving 4 children behind, we were taken in by
my Grandmother. After a few months of my mother’s passing, we relocated to South Carolina where my
Grandmother grew up. This was a very big change for us, being that we moved from a city that had lot of
Street lights to where a place that had very little street lights, but it was a much needed change. Still living
With the pain of mother’s passing, my grandmother passed away four years after my mother do to
Problems with her heart.
I felt that life was really over for me but I just knew that I had to keep the fight strong. This
Was one of the most painful things I faced since my mother passed away in 2000. When my grandmother
Passed away my aunt was there all the way. She even took us in her home and treated us like her kids,
which was very heart warming for us who were losing everyone and everyone that was around. Just after
a few years I finally keep it together to finish high school and moved to Virginia Beach shortly after.
Now attending ECPI College of Technology in Virginia Beach, VA, I feel that it is very
Important to stay positive in everything, because I know how hard it is out in the real world. Also, I feel
That with the help of great teachers I will become the best networking manager ever to hit the work
force. Not only that, I doing so that my family don’t have to look for the next meal or when the next
check is coming in, but most of all I’m doing this for me as well. I believe that if you don’t help yourself
then how will you be able to help the next person struggling. Also, because both my mother and
grandmother made changes in their life in order for us to be successful in life.
Attending ECPI is one of the best choices I ever made in life for the sample fact that, most of
My pears today are dead or in jail, but most died trying to live the street life. I stay ECPI has changed my
Life, because it a good look for me as a growing black man and as an older brother. Mainly I want to
Show little brother and sister that it is better ways out than living the street life, because it just a matter of
Time before someone takes your life or freedom. Basically my goal is show everyone that no matter what
You face in life its always positive sides as well and I’m living proof of that. This is truly the moment that
has changed my life and now I get to change the lives around ,e in a positive way as well.
“The Moment That Changed Everything”
Septemeber.22.2004. It was my first day of boot camp. I didn’t know what I was about to get myself into. As soon as we all got to the base in Chicago, Illinois, I was getting yelled at. Already, and I wasn’t even there for 5 minutes.
We all were told to make a line, after we got off the bus. The instructor led us to this big, brown building. “Face the bulkhead.” One of the instructors yelled. The first thing I did was looked around, to see what the hell the instructor was talking about. “The bulkhead?” I asked myself. “Recruit, I said face the bulkhead.” I then turn my head to look at him. “Don’t eye-ball me, Recruit. Face the bulkhead. The wall Recruit. The wall.” “ Oh, that’s what the bulkhead is.” I thought to myself.
“You Recruits have entered into a whole new world. We don’t have floors, ceilings, walls, bathroom, or water fountain here. Here, we have decks, overheads, bulkheads, heads, and scuttlebutts.” Tears immediately came to my face, because I didn’t know what I have gotten myself into.
They then led us all into a room, to take our information’s. Once again, I got yelled at for picking up my “Pee Cup” before told to do so. So the lady instructor that was there sends me out side to walk around the “scuttlebutt” for about two hours. Each time I walk around it, I had to stop and drink a sip of water from the water fountain. I am sorry, the “scuttlebutt.”
For the next three weeks, my life continues to get worse. I wish more and more, that I wouldn’t have done what I did. I finally get to see my twin brother for the first time in 3 weeks, since we have been separated. We made eye contact with each other.
Me. being the person hat I am. I waived to him. “Recruit, what the hell do you think you are doing in my ranks?” Shouted my RDC.
We got back to where we have been calling our home for the pass three weeks. My RDC called me into his office. I explained to him that I saw my twin brother. He made an arrangement for us to see, and spend at least two hours with each other every Sunday. Which was a Holiday for us?
After six weeks of being in boot camp, things started getting a little easier. We weren’t getting yelled at as much. We got more respect from everyone around us. Then we started looking at others on there first day.
After eight weeks, we finally graduated from boot camp. We all got our orders to where we will be at for the next two to three years of our career in the Navy.
It’s been over three years since I have been in the Navy. I have been to a lot of places and I have seen many different faces. I have met many different people from different cultures. I would not change that for nothing.
The Moment that Changed Everything
It was September 15, 1996. That day will stand out for the rest of my life, because that day was career at my high school. The week before that day my mother was on me about; what are you going to do after high school? I had already put off taking the S.A.T exam. So the entire upper class has to attend this career in the gymnasiums. I went in their not knowing what I was going to do with the rest of my life. Man I was only 17 years old. After an hour are so of roaming around their. This guy is a white suit stop me and ask “hey son want to travel the world and go to college at the same time” So I said yeah, what would I have to do. Petty Officer Smith told me all you would have to do is join the Navy. I didn’t know anything about the Navy or what they did. So I sign my name in the dotted line. When he review my information, he told my I wasn’t a legal age to enroll by my self. I should have run then, but the craziest then came out of my mouth. Well what happens do now, he told me call your parents. After I left school that day I talked with my parents. Next thing I know I on a plane heading to Great Lakes Illinois. Then when the bus stops I have this guy yelled get off the bus. Now I’m wondering what I got myself into. This is the scariest place I’ve ever been.
The Moment That Change Everything
It was a rainy day on the muddy field of Riverdale stadium and the winds where gusting & the
Cold air was bounding on the flesh of the fans as there cheers began to vibrate the whole surroundings.
The turf was ripped to pieces as the players where exhausted by the beating they where giving each other and plus Mother Nature was right along with them. But which beating was worse the sport announcer blasted out! Coach Ryan just called a time out for the left hook bulldogs, there in need of a score to win the game it going to take a miracle because the golden Trojans defense is a raging torch they have been heating up the bulldog’s offense all evening. Coach Ryan pulls Ricky pickle juice out the game the leading quarterback and replaces him for Donnell Watkins. When he runs in the field the crowds boo’s
The Moment That Changed Everything
The birth of my daughter was the most changing moment of my life. Even though I had two sons, a fathers’ life is not really complete, until a daughter is entered into their life and heart.
It was on the 7th of November; my wife went into labor. She was awaking me early that morning. Saying it’s time, I was so excited that I almost drove with out her. We got to the hospital (together), once there she went into the last stage of labor very quickly. As I paced back and forth the waiting room floor the doctor came in to inform me that my wife had just deliver a health baby girl. It took a moment to sink into my brain that I have a daughter. I wasn’t exactly sure on how deal with a baby girl, with my wife in the military and gone all the time. I mean the boys were easy, but a girl how much of a different would it make? As the nurse brought my daughter in the room and place her in my arms. It was like if she was the very first baby I have ever held. Man, she was a beautiful baby and to add to the excitement her first smile on this earth was give to me. If I had any doubts about being a father, her smile eased them. It was definitely going to be intersning to learn how to separate rising a daughter to raising a son. For instance give her a bath was going to be likely different then the boys, instant of playing shoot up her , I guess I would have to start playing dress up, and oh, lets not even talk about dealing with the boys calling.
But as my little girl grows into a woman, I finally truly understand the meaning of the fracse “Daddy’s Little Girl”. So all you so to be father out there beware of the daughter cause there is no other woman in the world that well capture your heart and hold like Daddy’s Little Girl.
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