The Lauren Contest

          

                   Lauren’s life has changed drastically and that means she has to cope with a lot of new challenges. Laurens life has gotten a lot more emotionally difficult, but at the same time, she has become a stronger person. Dealing with cancer and facing thoughts of death is a life- changing event for most people. She has coped with the challenges she has had very positively. In the article, it says when she was in the operating room at the hospital, she kept two jars with red and blue pebbles in them. Depending how her day was, she would put a blue pebble in if her day was bad, or a red pebble in if it was good. In the end, she had more red pebbles than blue pebbles! That shows that she was very positive and determined to make it through and she was very, very brave. That is how Lauren’s life changed and how she coped with her challenges.