My Grandma...
My Mom just called me and broke some sad news to me. My Grandma (her Mom) was diagnosed yesterday with advanced Lymphoma. And she only has about 3 months to live. I am SO upset by this. My parents naturally want us all to go and visit her, and of course I really want to go, I'm just not sure if I can make the trip anytime soon. She lives in this tiny town called Yreka, CA and it is 770.73 miles away from here. So we would have to take more than a day off to make it by driving. Of course we are all gonna go, there's no question about it, we just have to figure out how we can make it work with all of us.
I don't think the fact that she's dying has quite sunk in yet. I'm more concerned with the trip... I have only lost one other person in my life, and that's my Nonnie (my Dad's mother) and that was really hard for me to cope with. I'm not in one of those families where people die all the time. Longetivity really is in our genes. Good for me I guess. Strange thing is that my Great-Grandmother is still living. So her daughter is the one with cancer. She hasn't found out yet... It will hit her the hardest. That's her only child. Regardless of age, children should not die before their parents.
I know that tonight I will probably cry. But right now I'm handling it surprisingly well. I need to look at the bright side of this. At least she won't have to go through the pain of chemo. The doctors say it will only give her an extra month maybe, so it's not really worth it to be sick from that on top of everything else she's dealing with.
I just don't know what to do with myself. What a crappy time to know you're losing someone. Right before the holidays... ok. I'm not gonna dwell on that either....
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I don't think the fact that she's dying has quite sunk in yet. I'm more concerned with the trip... I have only lost one other person in my life, and that's my Nonnie (my Dad's mother) and that was really hard for me to cope with. I'm not in one of those families where people die all the time. Longetivity really is in our genes. Good for me I guess. Strange thing is that my Great-Grandmother is still living. So her daughter is the one with cancer. She hasn't found out yet... It will hit her the hardest. That's her only child. Regardless of age, children should not die before their parents.
I know that tonight I will probably cry. But right now I'm handling it surprisingly well. I need to look at the bright side of this. At least she won't have to go through the pain of chemo. The doctors say it will only give her an extra month maybe, so it's not really worth it to be sick from that on top of everything else she's dealing with.
I just don't know what to do with myself. What a crappy time to know you're losing someone. Right before the holidays... ok. I'm not gonna dwell on that either....
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