1- I am the mother of a toddler, so, I need to be a strong leader, I also need to be very patient, because she is still learning about everything, so when I communicate with her, I always try to sound happy or excited when I want her to do something. Still, when she is acting up, I will use a stern tone with her, which she doesn't like because she knows she did something wrong. 2- I am sure we all are resilient at some point in the day, when I am resilient, I usually take a minute and a deep breath and reassure myself that I got this, when dealing with my toddler I learn that they are very moody, they can be all happy go lucky and then just angry for no reason! A simple thing can set them off like I put something in the wrong color cup, or I slightly burn her toast! I usually fix the issue by taking a bite out of the food or drinking the juice, so she can see I am ok, so she will be ok. 3- Being a parent, you have to be unselfish and give things up, for your child. I would do it every day if it means my daughter is taken care of, or happy, there's been times I want to go somewhere but can't because I don't have someone to watch her, or I just don't think that going to said the place would be good to take her to, like there have been times I want to go fishing, and I don't want to take my daughter because I know that there's no place for her to sit and play, or I just don't know the area well enough and I don't want to worry about her running off (even though I sit with her anyways). There have been other instances where I will redirect everything around her, so she's not uncomfortable, like if we have a long car ride, I will try to make sure I make a pit stop for her to get out and stretch her legs. 4- I am very focused on being a stay-at-home mama, and also trying to keep my 4.0 in school as well, some days it's easy! On other days I have to take a break from my schoolwork and entertain my daughter, I don't mind it! I love it, but so far, I have kept all A's in all my classes and made the dean's list! and about to do it again! I am determined to make a better life for my daughter, she has a good life but I can't wait to go back to work and do it from home so my daughter can stay with me, and I don't need to put her in a daycare. 5- I have always had a strong work ethic, I would always show up early, and bust my butt every day to try to let people know I care about my work, sometimes I would be deterred because the people who would put forward the least amount of effort seemed to be praised and rewarded, but I knew I was a good worker, I feel cursed sometimes because I could just never walk out on a job, or just pull a no call no show, I don't want it to reflect on my name and who I am, I hold to much pride and I always let people know if you show someone you want it! you can get it!

Hello, my name is Elizabeth Treadway, I am a stay at home mom and I am studying at Ultimate Medical Academy to become a medical biller and coder, I am currently unemployed and this scholarship would help me with paying towards my student debt, and some other debts I have acquired the past couple years, in 2022 I was had a job, but due to a shortage in products needed for that business they did a mass layoff, about 60 people were walked out when they walked into work that day, I was one of them. I then found out I was pregnant about a month later, I did end up going back but only until I had my daughter then I became a full time stay at home mother, so during that layoff period I wasn't able to make payments towards credit cards I had, because I was trying to pay the important stuff. As you can imagine it really is stressful and it sits in the back of my head daily, after having my daughter UMA called me and I was welcome with open arms, I remember wanting to go back to school after being laid off, but then the pregnancy completely surprised me, but with my hard work I have been able to attain a 4.0 and I've made the Dean's List, and am pushing to make it a second time! I will be graduating in November, and I have student loans to pay off, and I hope that if I am to win, I can use this towards those loans and maybe some others that are due, every little bit helps out honestly. After I graduate I plan to start looking for work with my newly learned skills and hopefully work from home so I can continue to stay here with my daughter, this scholarship can help me with that though, so I can get some of the loans paid for and I won't need to worry as much, so I know I have at least some of the money put towards it. I hope that I will be able to achieve great things so when my daughter is older and see's what I did she knows that it was for her, and it inspires her to push herself and do great as well. My passion for this career is driven by my daughter, because I want her to have a great life, she already has a great one, and she is provided for but. it will also help me and my self-esteem, because I will be the first person in my family to graduate from college and that is a big thing for me.

I play the NEC program with my father, usually on holidays I turn it on, and we play together and play until one of us loses a life and trade off, it's fun because it's something we do together as a family, I enjoy it because sometimes we get mad at the game, but we then laugh it off because its just a game. Another memory I share is on the Wii, we would play bowling on Wii sports a lot, and I do miss that system because it be a thing we would do every new year's day, try to get all strikes and nothing else, I would only make it to 7 in a row usually, and then I wouldn't be able to break that record! one day I will!! I play Fortnite on my switch a lot to, mostly with my fiancé, right now we are trying to complete quests which is fun, I do rage though when I go down, and he tells me to calm down which I do eventually. I love spending time with my family, and Nintendo shares those memories of fun with me, I always look back and wish I could go back to those days so simple and fun.

I was born with NF1 and it runs on my father's side of the family, one of the challenges I faced was learning, and sometimes being able to take things in fast enough, I struggled most with math growing up, Algebra was difficult for me in the general education classes, I would have to take special education classes for math. I remember not liking it because kids are judgmental and I didn't want people to think differently of me, and think I wasn't as smart as them, so I would try to work hard to prove I was capable, I did hit a few roadblocks though sometimes. I have a few neurofibroma's, and cafe' au lait marks but never experienced bullying from them, I was bullied for being in some special ed classes though, I remember in a science class I took in 8th grade I had another student who was in the special ed classes with me in the same class, and there would be a teacher that would follow him to any general ed classes, that class she sat next to me as well, I didn't like it because I felt like the school board thought I was dumb, so I asked for her not to sit next to me, my request was met and I felt a lot better. Some other challenges I had was trying to prove myself to my school that I was capable of being able to function by myself, and if i needed help id ask, I didn't want it forced on me, I like to be able to prove myself. Some physical challenges I have are poor eyesight, and my hearing is starting to not be as great, I mean I can hear just fine but sometimes I won't hear someone talking to me, and need them to repeat themselves, I do have ADHD as well so sometimes simple tasks can take me longer because I get scatter brained or I freeze up and freak out because my brain is going 1000 mph and I can't focus on what needs to be done, or back to the hearing problem my ADHD will make my brain not focus on the person talking to me and their mouths are moving and no words are coming out. My ADHD can make things difficult sometimes, but I am working on it, I finally started back on medication for it and I am still trying to find the right dosage and type, but I will get it down. I never let NF take over my drive though, I always try to push on and meet my goals, NF doesn't define who I am, it's something I need to live with yes, but I take it in day by day and embrace it.

Dementia is a hard disease to witness, my grandmother before she passed had it, before the diagnosis I noticed she would have random mood swings, she would be happy and in a great mood, but then she would be mean or say things that I knew she didn't mean. We first found out about the diagnosis when I was around 16-17 she would say some erratical things, like she would accuse me of things I never did, or say hurtful things, I didn't know what to think, until we found out that it was dementia we didn't know what to think. Dementia was horrible to her though, I remember I went to my senior homecoming and the next morning she accused me of going to a party and being out all night, there was a time before she moved out and into my aunt's house she would say I was sneaking people into the house, I knew she didn't mean any of the things she was saying, but it scared me because I didn't know how to handle it or what to do. When she moved into my aunts though she was able to get the help she needed and the support so she wouldn't hurt herself by taking her medicine to many times or just wondering off and getting lost, she did that one time driving home from church, took the wrong turn and was lost, we found her, and she was okay and not injured. She would have good days though to, before it would get to bad she would enjoy watching a Jewlery shopping show, and order jewelry off of it, but then my dad took her phone and deleted the number because she would order to much and he basically grounded her from it, it was kind of funny she would get the number back and do it all over again, it was like Christmas for her though when the package would come in the mail. Before my grandma passed away she would know who some people were, and not know others I think that was the hardest thing to see, she was always very family oriented and to see her not know her own daughter who was very close to her was sad to see, my grandma raised me and was in my life for 20 years so that hit hard watching her decline, she did remember me though she told me to go home while she was in hospice, she didn't want me to see her how she was, she passed away peacefully in December of 2015 surrounded by family. Dementia is a serious disease, and I hope that we find a cure or at least something that can slow it down because watching someone you love suffer and they don't even know they are suffering is a terrible thing to witness. I hope that one day my personal experience watching someone go through it will help some people better understand it better.

My name is Elizabeth Treadway, and I am studying medical billing and coding at UMA, my goal is to try to get my certificate so I can work from home and I can stay at home with my daughter, I am a stay at home mother right now, and I don't work so I am focusing on school as of now, my plan is to if I win this scholarship or any scholarship is to use them towards paying towards my student loans so I can get at least some of them paid down as I try to find work and then I can start to make payments as I go, I am attaining a GPA of 4.0 and how I am doing that is I am working hard and I try to do my best to achieve the highest score, yes it can be a little hard sometimes but I always try to sit down and focus on this at least 2 hours or more every day, depending on how my daughter is and if she's occupied by her toys and such, but I hope to win this scholarship because every little bit helps out. I always try to work my hardest when it comes to school, in the past I never really knew what I wanted to do until I found out I was pregnant and then everything kind of hit all at once, and I knew I didn't want to work a dead end job anymore, and I wanted to work to live, and not live to work, so I looked into different things I could do from home and found out MBC worked best for me, so I set a plan, I would work hard in school and graduate and then work to earn my certificate, and try to do this before the end of the year, I graduate in November, so I am almost there. After I get my certificate I plan to try and find some entry level positions and work my way up that ladder and learn and take in everything I can so then when it's time for my daughter to start school I can hopefully have my debts paid for or almost paid off, then I will find an office position in MBC, or find a higher paying position and then maybe I will try to get my associates degree. I hope that everything I do will motivate my daughter so she can know that anything is possible if you just take that step and push, it may be scary at first, but everything will fall into place.

My name is Elizabeth Treadway, and I am studying medical billing and coding at Ultimate Medical Archenemy. My reason for this is so I can work on getting my degree, so I can work from home and stay with my daughter who is 1 year old, I have a 4.0 and am working hard to keep it. If I win this scholarship, I plan to use it towards my debt so I can get some of it paid off as I work on getting my certificate and I can start my career in MBC, and work towards paying off my school debt and other debts I accrued from being laid off a couple years ago. My reasons for studying this field are, for one I always found this topic interesting, and I am detailed oriented and love a challenge, another reason is so I won't need to worry about daycares, and I can stay home with my daughter, and as I gain experience I will hopefully move up and possibly go work in the office when she starts school.