“Even though I work 60-70 hours a week, I enjoy all of it because I’m
saving lives, and that’s what matters.” – Jessica L. Pemberton
As all of you hopefully know, a
hero is a different kind of person. A hero is a special kind of person. Before
I chose my hero for this project, I created a criteria with my class for a
hero. We came up with four things, all important for a hero to be who they are.
First, a hero should be accepted by society, or should be an inspiration to
someone or set an example to someone. Second, heroes need to be willing to help
others or sacrifice for others. Third, a hero needs to overcome a challenge,
trial, or perform some kind of heroic act for the good of others. Finally, a
good hero is dedicated to struggling or fighting for the good of others or the
world. They should make a positive impact on the world. And my hero definitely
is all of these.
Jessica Lee
Pemberton was born on August 30th, 1989, 10 years before myself.
After only a few minutes of being born, the doctors knew that something was
wrong. They kept her in the hospital a few days longer than normal to make sure
that she was going to be stable. She lived life as a normal baby in Highlands
Ranch, Colorado. When she was about 4 years old, the doctors diagnosed her with
Lupus. From then on out she lived her life normally, going to school and
playing soccer, her favorite sport. She was featured many times on the news for
her heroism to the community. People thought of her as a hero, as someone that
they would look up to for their acts. She slowly grew up and eventually
graduated from high school in 2007 at her high school in Colorado. She decided
that she wanted to be a nurse and help others as others had helped her. She
went to Ameritech College of Nursing in Murray, UT until she graduated in 2011
through hard work. She then moved back to Colorado where she worked for about a
year and a half. Our family persuaded her to move back to Utah, and now she
works 2 jobs in Salt Lake. Her first job being Cardiac ICU, and her second
being the Transplant Unit at IMC. She works hard at everything she does and
refuses to give up. Right now one of her favorite hobbies is to run marathons.
She ran 2 in 2012 and has run 4 or 6 in 2013 so far. We call her a
marathonaholic because she always runs them close to the time of the last one.
She saves lives at all of her jobs as a Nurse and that should automatically
make her a hero, don’t you think?
I’ve learned many things from her, but most of all it
probably has to be that she is the hardest working people that I have ever met.
She just rubs off the fact that she works 24 hour shifts sometimes or she works
two 12 hour shifts within 2 hours of each other. The fact that she works two
jobs and somehow finds the time to work both of them. I learn to work hard by
just watching her get 2 hours of sleep and get up on her own will to go to
work. I learn to work hard by watching her try to get a master’s degree in
Nursing so she can have a better job than she has now. Another thing that I
learned from her is that doing work is almost always worth it. This summer she
and my sisters want to go to Europe and spend time there, but that will definitely
take some money and time, so they have been saving up for a year and a half. I
love my sister and she has set one of the biggest examples for me, and I hope
to be like her one day.
By Connor
Pemberton
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