My Family's Medical Issues and My Desire to be a Pharmacist

The experience I had during my senior year was inevitably the worse. My mother was in a critical condition when she was diagnosed with jaundice. Her liver had swelled up to 18 centimeters when her body rejected the sulfur drugs were used for her fungal infection treatment. My father was in and out of the hospital for the side effects of his medications. He suffered emotionally and physically for almost three months until he found the most compatible drugs to treat his illness. With both incidents occurred during my summer vacation, I was half-hearted to leave my family behind to continue my senior year. There was no doubt it affected my studies as it reflects on my undergraduate transcript. At that point, it has pulled my grades down and has affected me emotionally. Later on, I discovered that these events in my life should be used as a pivotal to be a pharmacist.

Niagara Falls Medical Center is situated approximately 5 minutes from Walgreens Pharmacy. Thus, most of our customers are patients from the hospital. We also received customers from Canada especially over the weekends. ...