{"id":19172,"date":"2020-07-05T09:16:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T09:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essays.homeworkacetutors.com\/2020\/07\/breakthrough\/"},"modified":"2020-07-05T09:16:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T09:16:32","slug":"breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colapapers.com\/us\/breakthrough\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The paper quivered in the morning light, now beaming through the cracked blinds, it crinkled as sweaty palms clutched its edges-bleeding the peripheral text, as tears stained the dull thin paper. The paper quivered as I read that 500 word essay on page two of the Washington Post over and over again. It quivered as each and every word bore its way into my mind, as I desperately attempted to grasp this evanescent euphoria.<\/p>\n<p> Breakthrough. Yervoy. Melanoma. Ipilimumab. Prolong. Survive. Eight years too late, but the utterance comforted me. Between those lines of serif font, I could see the desolate image of my mother fading away, scarred skin sinking into a skeletal frame, all senses fading leaving only a feeble reminder of the toll six months of surgery and chemotherapy take. I could feel the weight of her absence and the desire for one more hour, day, week or month of her presence.<\/p>\n<p> Between those lines of serif font, I could see a child pleading with fate for more time, as they watched their own parent slip away. I could see four to eight months from the breakthrough, a child\u2019s nativity to loss preserved, an unconditional love untarnished by death.<\/br><\/p>\n<p> In that quivering paper, I found hope- hope that one day melanoma\u2019s mordant agenda will be but a secluded musing buried behind triumphs and victories, hope that loved ones may live not only in our memories, but in our lives as a constant reminder of the progress that overcame death.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The paper quivered in the morning light, now beaming through the cracked blinds, it crinkled as sweaty palms clutched its edges-bleeding the peripheral text, as tears stained the dull thin paper. The paper quivered as I read that 500 word essay on page two of the Washington Post over and over again. It quivered as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6512,5964],"tags":[5676,5686,5780,5294,5674,5677,5678,6403,4639],"class_list":["post-19172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acemyhomework","category-free-essay","tag-1500-words-assessment-task","tag-ace-homework-tutors","tag-assignment-homework-help-answers","tag-bishops-writing-bureau","tag-create-a-2-4-page-resource","tag-create-powerpoint-include-harvard-referencing","tag-i-need-completed-essay-in-300-400-words","tag-write-a-3-5pg-paper","tag-write-a-page-assignment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colapapers.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colapapers.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colapapers.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colapapers.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colapapers.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colapapers.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colapapers.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colapapers.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colapapers.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}