Spencer the Rock Star

Spencer has had a great month at school - he won first place in the school science fair (truthfully, we were a bit surprised  by this one)!  And, today it was announced that he won a school essay contest titled "What a Doctor Means to Me".

The essay was really hard for him - he cried ...okay, actually he sobbed through it and kept telling me he didn't want to talk Lizzie's surgery and the hospital, but we worked through it and we found out today that he WON!  He won $40 and a family dinner to the Timbermine Restaurant (oh yeah!). 

Here is the text of his essay...

What a Doctor Means to Me 

To me a doctor means that if somebody gets sick they can help them get better and if somebody gets hurt they can get surgery.  When my sister Lizzie was 5 years old she was sick for a very long time and one day it got very bad.

So we took her to the hospital and they took an x-ray on her and they said she had a brain tumor and so they had to drive down to primary children’s and I didn’t know what was going on.  I’m grateful for doctors because if we didn’t have doctor’s lots of people would die.  I’m grateful for doctors because they saved my sister’s life. 

I didn’t know what was going on and I was scared. Doctors aren’t just made for helping people get there sickness out of there body they help people be happy.

There was a really nice doctor that helped Lizzie and he got medicine squirters and they filled it up with water and squirted each other.  It made it less scary to see them have fun and playing with each other. Doctors serve the patients like their own kids.

Since the doctors saved my sister’s life me and my other little sister have been able to do things with Lizzie like play hide and go seek, play the Wii, go sledding , have sleep overs in each other’s rooms,  play catch with the volleyball , be goofy, play Legos, color, listen to music,  watch movies, and make forts.

Doctors help people live longer with the people they love.

And that’s what a doctor means to me.

I love how sweet my Spencer is!