Ramona Swany: My Hero

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5,064 is the number of days Ramona Swany also known as mom has stood up for me protected me and has inspired me. She has worked so hard to provide for our family and for me and my brother to have a good life, and the lives that she saves at her work every day. My mother is an oncology nurse so every day she goes to work and she gives the medicine and also helps people that have cancer. I appreciate what she does and has inspired me to study medicine what I am older to help people that why she does. What is a hero? I believe that a hero is someone who puts other people before themselves and is a leader. I feel that my mother is this hero for me.

My mom has always worked very hard each and every day to provide to provide and maintain a healthy and happy lifestyle for her and her family. She is a single mother working full time five days a week as a nurse. The other two days of the week she is spending time with her kids, pets and helping doing chores around the house. Me and my brother are also in sports so so also helps take us to games and practices over the week as well. As a daughter in my mother life I know she will protect me in my life. Cleary all …show more content…

For example what I was really struggling with reading in forth grade she got me help by making do eye exercises at Pacific University. It was very difficult for me and my family because we had to do the eye exercises three times a day with at least one other person to help me do them properly. And my mom was the one that would take me to all of my appointments every time they had to do more tests on me. Another thing that she would help me with was my sports, every time I have a softball game out in Tillamook or some place far away she is happy to take me to my games after a long day of work. Every day I was with her she would take me to my practices and

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