Who's Your Role Model/Mentor???

[Ivy]

I know this has probably been done before, but let's try not to make every comment a celebrity. I mean there's got to be someone you know personally that has influenced your life in some way or another. Mine for example would be my Fiancee's Mother, last April she found out she had an advance case of breast cancer, which her mother didn't have the luck to overcome, and immediately she started Chemo, Radiation, and on May 27th, 2008 she had surgery to remove the cancer. But to our dismay we found out it had progressed into her lymph nodes, making it easily spreadible. She went to Chemo once a week in the beginning and then every other week. The Chemo made her so weak and vulnerable to illness, but even though she had no hair, and no energy, she and her husband still took me and my fiancee' on a 7 night stay at Disney World. In October 2008, she had to make the hard decision of having both her breast removed along with her ovaries...And on this coming Monday, she's going back to get fake breast implants and to re-check to see if she's overcome cancer for atleast another few years. But the inevitable is that the cancer will return, and ultimately be her destruction. But she doesn't let it phase her, and she lets the world know that she had cancer and that she won't give in so easily...If I had half her faith and strength, I'd be an alright person...

[bom-bom]

thats a beautiful story Ivy, ppl who has cancer and try to overcome to it are admirable, its a very sad situation but they still fighting for their lifes, they are alwasy good role models
im gonna say (and i knwo it sounds too typical) my mother, im always fighting with her because she sometimes she really piss me off but she is a very strong person. she and my father have 5 children (3 girls and 2 boys) my mum used to work before we were born, but she got pregnant ,my dad asked her to stop working and take care of us..(something that i wouldnt done) and she did it. raising 5 children its not easy,and so is taking care of the home and all that. my big sister is living in another city but me and my others brothes still live at home, and we are always arguing and all that for stupid things, we love each other but u know, my brothers sometimes get my nevers. I know we dive to despire her sometimes. Moreover the relationship with my dad its not really goo, they are not divorced and they live together but they argue a lot and my dad sometimes act in a very selfish way, u know its like he comesback from work and he wants his food i the table, and in the afternoon he goes into her room and start working and my mum is the one who has to do evertyhign in the house, i know my father is the one who earns the money but..i dont think i wouldnt stand this type of relationship
moreover my grandma got really sick this christmas (now she is feeling a bit better, thanks god) and my mum has a brother but he never really cared about his mum, i mean he is her son but he has his family and u know , never go to visit her and all that. so my mum was the one who had to "sleep" in my grandma's home , most of the time she couldnt sleep, and take care of her, while she gets well, so she has been since christmas btw my grandma's house and my house, taking care of her and of us.
she is very strong and fights until she has no strenght and thats something that i really admire

[MC Anonymous]

Touching story Ivy.

My Role Model that I have is most definitely is my Mother. I've witnessed my Mom die in front of me inside a hospital room, she had gotten a botched surgery that was supposed to be a gull bladder removal, but the doctor sliced her intestines, esophagus, liver ducts, liver, so many different things. She had died in front of me in the hospital, but she was revived and of course they escorted me out the room. Even before I was born she had a car accident that broke every bone in her body, and she was in a coma for 2 months. So she had to relearn everything. She's always in pain but she never gives up, no matter what happens to her she gets right back up and keeps on going. She's a bi-polar schizophrenic like me but she doesn't need to take medication because she refuses to quit. and that's why I look up to her so much. Everything she ever went through she never let it affect her to the point where she gets depressed and gives up. With all the shit I put her through because of the mental illness I have she never gave up on me either, and that shows such strength and perseverance. If I had my Mother's strength I would be such a better person right now.

[Ivy]

Those are really sensitive issues ya'll decided to discuss. And trust me, I'm an emotional person so every word touched my heart in the right way. Parents are great role models, sadly I didn't get blessed with them, so my fiancee's parents are basically mine...which can be kind of creepy if you think about it...