Razelle Larkin Jr
May 27th, 2019
English 9
Something that had an impact on me is that my grandma died and it affected me a lot. The death made me so sad. My grandma died in 2017 in September and it was so hard to lose her. My grandma was so close to me and she was the only person that I can tell everything too. She helped me with all my homework and problems that I had in school and out. My grandma died to cancer. She had stage 4 cancer which is deadly so of course that made me feel worse than anything. My grandma funeral was like weeks later after the death. This all happened in the same week. One morning she woke up and she was going to go to work but she said she didn’t feel good. I didn’t know what was wrong with her because she has never been sick enough to not go to work. I went up stairs and all of sudden my Granddad yelled helped because my grandma had fell because she had a stroke so there for she was paralyzed and couldn’t moving her right side.
The ambulance took forever to get the house and they was 5 minutes away but took 20 minutes to get there so she was just sitting there until they came. I gave her some water until the ambulance came there because I didn’t know what else to do to help her. The ambulance finally got there so they took here in the hospital and said they are going to run some test to see why she had a stroke and see what is going on. The doctor said that she was sure that it was cancer but the doctor didn’t know so they was going to still run some test. They took her upstairs to run test and that took at least like 20 minutes. They finally brought her back down and the doctor said it was stage 4 cancer. The doctor said she had two options to feel better and that was too have surgery which they didn’t know if she would make it out alive and the other choice was to do radiation to shrink the tumors on her brain. The choice we choose was to do radiation to shrink the tumors on her Brain so everyday they took her across street to have radiation.
One day she was coming back from radiation and she said that they put a cage over her head and we thought she was joking until the doctor came in and said that the radiation looks like they putting a cage over her head. A couple days passed and on my first day of 8th grade I wanted her to be there and watch me go into 8th grade but she was still in the hospital. When I got out the hospital my mom got a call from the hospital saying that my grandma was breathing but wouldn’t wake up. The doctors said she was in a dream state. They said the tumors had shifted her brain which caused her to go into a dream state, in other words she wasn’t going to wake up. Later that night I went home cause I was tried but later that night my grandma stopped breathing and she died. The next day I woke up and it was 10 am I had overslept for school but no one woke me up. I ran downstairs and asked was my grandma coming home and they said no she died. I didn’t cry or anything i just sat there quite because I didn’t know what to say but I was sad inside and stayed to myself. That’s the tragic event that impact my life.
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