Heart Surgery Persuasive Speech

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“Beep... Beep.... Beep…”, the machine goes as my 7 year old Angie is connected to so many cord and wires. All theses machines connected to her just to keep her alive. She is my only daughter, my only child and the only family i have. “ Daddy”, Trembled my poor or Angie, “Where are we”. “Its gonna be all right”, I said comforting, assuring her that everything was gonna be all right. I had to hold back the tears as she drifted back to sleep. As the ventilator caused her chest to go up and down as she breathed, I thought back to what had happened. - The day before - So today i am helping Angie and her classmates get ready for her teacher's surprise birthday party. She is coming in 15 minutes after the bell because we asked for the principle …show more content…

"The good news is we can the tissue and take the bullet out, but its going to cost a couple thousand dollars because your insurence doesnt cover heart surgery and we have to do the the surgery right away. So are you going to go through with the procedure”, questioned the doctor. I was obviously going to go through with the procedure , but i am not a wealthy man so this might empty my bank account. “Yes of course”, i replied. “Good, lets taker her to New York”, marveled the doctor. Its crazy flying from california to new york, when ive never even been out of california. In about seven hours we finally made it too new york, it was beautiful and this was the best hospital in all the states. They rushed Angie in with three times the wires on her than before. “Whe have to take her into the or now, her heart rate is going too fast”, called the doctor. As im waiting outside the operation room i see the best heart surgeon in the country, alexandra reed, walking in the or confident and ready to save my angie. The doctor said it would take about six …show more content…

After two hours of waiting, a lady with dark brown hair, and hazel brown eyes runs into the hospital with a little child about three or four years old in her arms. The blanket with the child in it is covered in blood. As the hospital rushes kid into an operation room, the mother im assuimg, paced back and forth. After a couple of minutes of waiting, i decided to ask her what had happened. “Was that your kid”, I asked. “Yea, thats my daughter Kyra”, she replied. “I have a daughter to, her names Angie and shes in the or right now”. “What happened to your daughter”, i added. “We were walking through the park when some guy came and started shooting and then the stupid guy shot my daughter right in her chest next to her heart tissue. What happned to your daughter Angie?”, she said. “My ex girlfriend shot up my daughters school and shot Angie right next to her heart just like Kyra, but the bullet infected the tissue on the heart”, I replied. As we talked for about two more hours the doctor walked in. “Mr. Garzo, we need to speak privately. Angies surgery has been succesfful and shell be out by tommorrow, but be easyon her and dont let her put too much pressure where her heart

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