Essay Sample on the Best Day of My Life

Introduction

“It is successful! We are done here. Let us hope for the best.” I could hear faintly a deep male voice and as if in a dream. My head was too heavy to lift.

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“True, it was a success and we shall reassess in 48 hours” another female voice responded. At this time I could feel wavering levels of consciousness. I tried to understand what was going on but my level of alertness. Sometimes I could not even understand who and where I was. I slipped into a semi-conscious state and memories started flooding my mind.

Human Challenges

Life is not always full of joyful moments and like all human challenges have faced me in unfavorable measure. The memories of the most disadvantaged aspect of my life; unilateral deafness triggered a flow of emotions in my mind. I had always wished to have had the opportunity to use both ears and enjoy the freedom of receiving my phone from any side of my face. If I were asked to make a wish, hearing from both sides would be one of the topmost wishes. In the early years of my life, I may have not realized my inability as I may not have been fully conscious of all the sensory responses I ought to have partly or mainly because I could hear with my right ear.

However, after joining a school, I started to note that all conversations happening on my left side could pass me. In the early days of schooling, it was not much of a concern. Progressively, I become worse and I became a victim of ridicule. Fellow students in my class could not understand why I could not hear from my left ear despite exhibiting features of a normal human being. I in turn faced stigma, become sidelined, developed loneliness, declined in performance, and was constantly depressed. Fellow pupils could not like to share jokes in my presence or with me because I could not hear in the first and will have to nag them to repetition. Similarly, playmates avoided me as was perceived to be unable to coordinate activities since I may not hear instructions. Moreover, some teachers could who were not keen on repeating instructions could leave me confused. All these factors took a great toll on my life and made me feel more disadvantaged. We had sought help from various hospitals with no success and we finally resigned to fate when we could no longer sustain the economic burden of seeking healthcare.

Hypotheses

In one of my hypotheses as to how it might have occurred that I become unilaterally deaf, in addition to being a congenital condition, I had developed severe ear pains at the age of 8 years. It was while on the farm where I experienced acute and severe earaches and could not hear anything. Despite the pain, I could not imagine the thought of going to the hospital and get an injection. Spiders and injections have always been my worst fear. I convinced myself that it was just a spasm and after taking a painkiller the pain started subsiding I saw no need of going to the hospital for the fear of injection.

During the early days of my high school days, I vowed to work hard having been used to live a life of segregation and ridicule. I thus took to concentrate on my studies. However, my classmates could still ridicule me and insinuate that I am pretending not to hear. The study of the ear anatomy in high school could lead to more probing with students trying to come up with hypotheses on what could be ailing my ear; read trying to make a diagnosis. Despite my young age, poor mental resilience to life challenges, and lack of psychological support I managed to perform well in my studies. The experiences to this point led to the development of low self-esteem, lack of self-confidence, and fear of expressing myself, especially in private conversations as I may not hear responses, especially when conversing with someone sitting on my left. The psychological effect of these experiences greatly affected my mental resilience to life challenges.

School Environment

Like in the school environment I have faced similar challenges in public transport especially sitting in which social persons trying to make conversations when seated on my left. Most of the time while traveling I have to choose an alone seat or feign sleep to avoid the person sitting on my left from starting a conversation with me. All the while my mind had not accepted my fate with multiple audiograms showing severe to profound hearing loss in the left ear. It became clear to me that I had to accept my condition all my life. I turned my attention to research on avenues in which I could get support either psychological, emotional, and medical support for the treatment of deafness.

I was awoken from my semi-conscious state by the sound of a moving stretcher. Lights were towering over my head and could not guess my location.

A soft speaking lady engaged with me, “How are you feeling.”

“Where am I? What happened? Where are you taking me?” were my grave concerns to her.

“We are taking you to the recovery ward. You are among the very first patient to undergo tympanic membrane transplant for hearing restoration and I am glad to inform you that it was successful” she said in excitement looking into my eyes.

It was then that I remembered one of my long-awaited days has just been successful and could now be able to hear with both ears. It was the happiest moment of my life.

Conclusion

This fiction story highlights the challenges that persons with disabilities and how medical innovations could be of benefit in the restoration of full or near full body function for a person with a disability. Besides, the emotional and psychological effects of stigma and discrimination on persons with disabilities cause lifelong effects on their psychological wellbeing.