After a short battle with cancer, my mother lost her life, though her hope and perseverance lived on through me. As her home health aide, being by her side every day for three months, she taught me just how much hope meant in the face of adversity. Every day that I took care of her she told me that I had everything it takes to be a compassionate nurse so here I am. I'm in a full time nursing program, treating every person I come across with the compassion and caring that my mother deserved. When I lost her to cancer I knew that the one and only thing she truly wanted to do before she died was to go to Pensacola, Florida. And she did. On her birthday, just months after she passed I made a beautiful resin necklace with her ashes and carried her all the way to Florida, allowing her to be at peace. This created a sort of peace for me as well, turning to creating jewelry when the days seemed hopeless. I hope that with every minute passing down she's looking down at me, proud to call me her child.