Health Communication - Personal

There was something about healthcare that greatly attracted me to the field. At this very moment I am an aspiring pharmacist. Overtime I realized the importance of medicine and healthy habits as I also see the effects of illnesses take the toll of people I know. My grandpa passed away at the age of 91 due to a stroke and I was probably about seven or eight-years-old at the time. I never really noticed his old age or his progress of developing a stroke as he always managed to keep up with me when we go for walks outside or whenever he played a game with me while babysitting my sister and me. Then one day he just could not move as much and would spend most of his days in bed.
I would watch my dad (a medical technologist and experienced clinical worker) draw blood from my grandpa each week for testing and give him medicine to take away aches and pains. When it came to doctor visits, my grandma did not understand the medical lingo that the doctor and nurses presented to her and always relied on my dad to translate it in simpler terms and in the Filipino language. Then before I know it I could not even speak to my grandpa in English, he managed to say some gibberish then couldn't speak at all. I was too young to understand what was happening to him. However, I still remind the precautions that my family took to help my grandparents out. It involved gathering more information about what was wrong with my grandpa, have him visit the doctor, which eventually turned into a more prolonged hospital stay. My parents wanted my sister and I to keep our distance in case it was a contagious disease until they learned it all had to do with my grandpa, his old age, the worsening of his diabetes, and blood clotting in his brain. Doctors did their best to keep my grandma informed about what was happening and slowly preparing her for the loss of her husband.
One thing about health communication for some professionals is being able to keep your emotions at bay. However, there are also times when they feel empathetic. After such an experience my family learned how to cope with death of a loved one and to continue to live healthier lives not only physically but emotionally, but I think it still gets to my grandma. Needless to say, the health communication models were applied in a way that my family changed our eating habits to lessen our chances of getting diabetes right away in life and to be more physically active because we were influenced by the loss of my grandpa and the advice given by our doctors in order to prolong our own health.