Argumentative Essay On Chemotherapy

As soon as I walk into a room and smell germ x hand sanitizer I am thrown back into the days where I had chemotherapy. The picture that I get in my flash back is of a hospital room with me on the bed holding my dad’s hand while Dr. Salvi puts the needle into my port. Dr. Salvi was the best in the business, there was no better than him and his partener. I would not feel any pain as the doctor slips the butterfly needle into my port because I had put numbing cream on it two hour before. I had always hated this part, especially when the doctor puts the shot in the IV. For some reason whenever the doctor would put the shot through the IV I got this feeling in my stomach and I could taste the liquid as it entered my body. When I smell germ x I sometimes get the feeling that I would get in my stomach with the chemo.
Since I hated getting she shot even though it did not hurt my dad and the nurses would always try to make me feel better before the shot. My dad would say to me that it would be alright and that the needle would not
through the butterfly needle. The I.V. was a long tube that was connected to a bag that was full of the chemo drug that was hung on a metal stand that had wheels on the bottom. After the I.V. was attached I would follow the nurse into the treatment room. The treatment room is a room that is full of big blue chairs and that is where all of the patients take chemo. I would always sit in my chair and bring my portable dvd player. I would watch either Beethoven or Camp Rock, which were my favorite movies at the time to watch. I always see myself eating something because when you are on chemo it makes you carve unusual foods. There was a portillos about ten minutes from my hospital, my dad would go and get me food while the nurses watched me. He would get a full slab of ribs expecting for him to get some but I would always eat the whole slab before he had a