Growing up, I would constantly get ill, I had to miss school often, and I would go to hospital a lot. There was a time when I was able 5-6 when I got diagnosed with bronchitis and had to get an X-ray for it and was required to stay home. Eventually the bronchitis worsened and I was then diagnosed with Mycoplasma pneumonia and I had to miss months of school so that I could get better. Getting pneumonia was a fairly common thing for me as a child but most of the time it never got that bad. After I got better and went to school, it felt strange having to miss so many days all because of an illness. While I was sick with Mycoplasma pneumonia, I wasn't allowed to do anything, all I could do was sit and lay down at home, usually on the couch so that I could watch tv shows, ironically enough it was usually Doc McStuffins, a kids medical show. There was a few times I'd get fevers during my months of illness in which my mom would take very good care of me, forcing me to drink a lot of water, making me eat, and putting cold towels on my forehead and her efforts helped to bring down my fevers. Because my dad was actively serving in the military at that time, we were able to go to the hospitals on base, which was a lot cheaper so getting x rays weren't too expensive. I never had a problem with getting X-rays as I thought it was quite fun. Going into a dimly lit room, wearing a hospital gown, and seeing the strange lights emiting from the machines. After that, it was a decent wait until we got the results of what was wrong which then turned out to be Mycoplasma pneumonia. I realized that without the x-ray, I could have been diagnosed with something less serious and could be given wrong medication which could leave to my condition getting worse and worse so it really helped me realize how important x rays really are. It helps diagnose more precisely and helps others know what's wrong by visually seeing the problem. This is why I want to become a radiologist because I think it's important to have X-rays so that everyone can know what's wrong and be given the right and proper treatment for it. I spent months at home because of an illness that was found by doing an X-ray when without it, it could have possibly gone a different and worse route.