My Sisters Keeper Prediction

My Sister's Keeper is a heart wrenching book about a young girl with leukemia and the struggles her family has to go through. Kate Fitzgerald, the girl with cancer has a sister Anna, and a brother. Anna was born to save Kate. Throughout her whole life she has been forced to undergo procedures to try and help Kate. Some of them include multiple bone marrow transplants and also she has to give blood quite often too. Now they are at a point where Anna took her parents to court because she doesn’t want them to make medical decisions for her any more.

I predict that after they get done in court that Sara Fitzgerald, Anna's mom will end up having a lot of guilt about what she's put her through. For all the year of Anna's life, her parents have been making all of her decisions for her. When they were in court, Campbell Alexander, the lawyer was asking Sara about everything that Anna has been through. He was asking about the blood drawings, bone marrow transplants and all the other medical procedures she's had to have done. I think as he was talking to her about all these things she was starting to think about some of the decisions she's made and how maybe they weren't all that good.  They basically set her up for a "guilt trip." Which personally in my opinion wasn't a bad thing because maybe now she will realize that what she's done has hurt her daughter.

Something that I could for see happening in the future is Anna and her mom mostly but possibly her dad too, having no relationship. I don't think they're going to talk any more because Anna is always going to remember the pain she had to go through as a child, so therefore she will always hold a grudge towards her parents. At some points In the book her dad mentions how he sometimes disagreed with the procedures that they  were doing, but he knew he had to make Anna do them to save Kate's life. In my opinion at some point you have to think about how much you are really going to do, just to try and cure a very deadly disease like cancer. There comes a time where you can't try any more and you just need to let the person be rest because you don't want them to suffer. Not that they want Kate to die, but in the mean time they sort of forgot about Anna.

Mothers Day 2012

"Well Kate, Anna and I haven't talked in six months now. I don't understand why she's mad at me, I never did anything wrong."

"Okay Mom, hold on I'm going to go call her real quick."

"Anna, you realize it's mothers day today right?"

"Yeah why?"

"Mom just asked about you, I mean are you coming over here today or not?"

"Psh no, why would I do that?"

"Okay Anna, but this is really going to hurt her feelings."

"Why would I care after all the pain that she's put me through?

"I'm sorry Anna, you didn't deserve to go through all those struggles just to try and save my life. It should've been your decision about what you wanted to do all along. I'm sorry."

"Kate, this isn't your fault."

"I know, I just feel like I've caused so many problems, and so much tension in this house."

"Well don't worry about it, now you better go hang out with mom(BOTH GIRLS LAUGH)"

"Bye Anna, text me later."

Expect the Unexpected

Have you ever thought of donating an organ, or how just how one little thing can save somebody's life? Many people have issues with organs in their body, and then they need to get a transplant. Before you can just get a random person's organ, you have to make sure that you both match certain things.  In "My Sister's Keeper "everybody knew that they only way Kate was going to live was if she got a kidney transplant. The decision had to be made fast. How was she going to get a kidney, and nobody knows how much time she has left.

Who knew that the loss of one, could save the life of another. Anna Fitzgerald was in a serious car accident, and later ending up dying. Meanwhile she had her older sister, Kate, who's fate depends on if she gets a new kidney. But not everybody is a match; but one person was for sure… Anna. Throughout the time that she was living, she had never wanted to go under surgery to do the transplant. But now since she wasn't alive, it's a different situation. Nobody had the power to make the decision, except for one guy, Campbell Alexander her lawyer from her lawsuit against her parents.

Previously, Anna took her parents took her parents to court for rights to her own body. She felt that they were forcing her to do things she didn't want to do, and therefore she had enough of it and had to put a stop to the cause. There is one part from the court session that I clearly remember. It was when the judge was asking Sara, Anna's mom, about all the medical procedures she's been through. Then Brian started joining in about how sometimes he  didn't agree to what they were doing to Anna; but they knew Kate needed it.  Clearly you can see that both Brian and Sara are only watching out for Kate. It seems like nobody even cares about Anna, because everybody is so focused on Kate and her cancer. Yes I do understand she is fighting a deadly disease but you can't just forget about the world around you after all.

After all this family drama look at what ended up happening in the end. They ended up loosing their "Miracle baby." The one that was born to help save Kate. Her whole life got used for doing everything for Kate. For all this time they were all about Kate, and they kind of forgot about their other kids. So now look what happens, they won't get to spend anymore time with her because she's dead. Surprisingly that wasn't even the person that they expected. I think that Anna's death will create a lot of guilt and also make both parents think about how they were during her life. Throughout all those years I think she was really abandoned by both Brian, and Sara to some level. Mostly Sara because she was only advocating for Kate. Brian, he could actually understand how Anna felt sometimes but still he never did anything to help.

The lesson to learn from reading this book is expect the unexpected, and also cherish every moment of your life. For Anna's parents, they got to caught up with everything going wrong with Kate and then they ended up loosing a lot of time with their other daughter. I think they will really end up regretting how they treated her, and maybe it will teach them a little lesson. Everybody can take something away from reading this, but what I learned is that no matter what your going through in your life, don't forget about other people around you, and also be prepared for the worst no matter what the situation is.