6A Keep on Fighting

December of 2011 was a very challenging time for my family and I. During this time my grandma was diagnosed with cancer, I’m very close with my grandma and hearing that she had bladder cancer completely broke my heart. At the time my grandma was living in Florida so it was hard not being able to physically be by her side while she was going through this. She started getting chemo and radiation treatment, during this she had an awful reaction to the chemo treatment, she had collapsed outside of her doctors office from lack of blood. She was then hospitalized for about three weeks, that’s when my family decided we needed to be there to support her. We ended up going to Florida soon after she was being hospitalized.

I got to Florida and went right to the hospital, I remember walking into her room and seeing her with bruises all over her body from IV’s and when she had fell. It was so hard for me to see someone I cared for so much in that much pain. What I love most about my grandma is her sense of humor she always says the funniest things and never fails to make me laugh. As we were in the hospital we were all pretty overwhelmed and upset but my grandma who was very ill was the one that got us to all laugh and enjoy our time with her. She would make jokes how she liked being in the hospital because she didn’t have to get up, they made her food and brought it to her and she didn’t have to do work around the house. She stayed positive throughout the whole process, which is why I look up to her so much. A few days after my family and I were about to come home she was able to leave the hospital. This made us all relieved and happy that she was starting to get better.

After many chemo/ radiation treatments and a surgery operation I am happy to say my grandma is a survivor and cancer free! The experience my grandma went through with cancer showed me that anything can happen in life and when you’re faced with difficult situations you can’t give up you have to fight no matter how hard it is. I had to stay very persistent while my grandma was ill. It was very hard to support her when I was so far away and even when I was there in Florida with her it was hard to stay positive knowing of all the things that could possibly have happened.