Dec 19, 2006 15:46
Missing You Like Crazy
A girl is pulled out of English, only to realize what is finally happening. Something she knew as soon as she saw her walk in the classroom. A nightmare coming true. Something this girl thought wouldn't happen for another 50 years. The principal drives her home, because tears just fill this girls eyes. She sits in the livingroom quietly, waiting for someone to come pick her up, and take her to the hospital.
As the girl walks into the hospital, and up to the wing she needs to be in, she sees her father, and breaks down. She runs over to him and hugs him, while tears stream down her face. She sits down in a waiting room with the rest of her family.
The girl stands quietly in a hospital room, her aunt's arms wrapped around her. The girl is in tears, and can't believe what she must face now. She cries as she holds her sister's hand. The heart rate on the monitor is slowly going down, and as it approaches zero, everyone in the room just breaks. Nobody can believe what they are witnessing, something they didn't anticipate. At 7:26 the family says their final goodbye to their now dearly departed granddaughter, neice, daughter, and sister...
This family had so much hope, and that hope was crushed a year, and a week ago today. They day they found out that their first granddaughter, daughter, and eldest sister was going to die within a week from such a horrible thing.
This family? Mine.
The girl? Me
This is what I went through one year ago today, when my older sister passed away. I remember everything. Everything including the say we found out my siste rhad cancer. Nobody even had to tell me.
Cancer is a horrible thing, and I can't say that I have any faith at all in chemo, or radiation.
The sad thing is that the family my mom works for...they're going through the same thing.
Their ten year old son was just diagnosed with bone cancer. He was having really bad back problems, so they took him in for a catscan, and they found a tumour on his spine. They weren't going to try to remove it because there's a risk of possibly paralyzing him.
The last I heard they rushed him in for an emergency surgery to remove some of the tumour. He can't sleep because of this, and he's going to need plenty of rest because he's having double doses of chemo, ontop of radiation to get rid of the tumour.
This poor boy is only ten years old! Ten!
The really sad thing? The survival rate of this treatment for this caner is only 5 percent.
We live in a cruel, cruel world.
This is all so unfair.