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my great-grandfather passed away last night.
he found out two weeks ago that he had what the doctors thought was fluid on his lungs...
but they did a bunch of tests and found that it was actually a malignant tumor.
from then, his health rapidly declined until he fell into a coma two nights ago.
i hate to say it, but i'm kind of relieved that he went ahead and let go.
just because he's not in any pain anymore.
but i feel really sorry for my great-grandmother, because now she's all by herself, and she's not in great health, either.
she's my only remaining great-grandmother, and we aren't close at all. i wasn't close to my great-granddad, either. it's kind of sad. when my mom was younger, they never visited, they never called, and she barely considered them grandparents. as she grew up and got married, she contacted them more often, but they never came around to see us or anything. i've been around them maybe a grand total of 10 times in my life.
so i guess i don't feel sad, exactly, except for the fact that i didn't get to know him before he died. i hope my great-grandmother will still be here when we get married.
but anyway, we're driving up to toccoa this evening to go to the visitation. i'm not looking forward to that. but i think it's the right thing to do.
after we leave toccoa, we're going camping or something. we haven't decided yet, but i'm off work the rest of the week, so we want to adventure and chill while we can.
another relative of mine also passed away this week, i think he was probably my third cousin. his funeral is this saturday. i'm not sure if i'm supposed to go or not.
work is very tedious and slow today.
he found out two weeks ago that he had what the doctors thought was fluid on his lungs...
but they did a bunch of tests and found that it was actually a malignant tumor.
from then, his health rapidly declined until he fell into a coma two nights ago.
i hate to say it, but i'm kind of relieved that he went ahead and let go.
just because he's not in any pain anymore.
but i feel really sorry for my great-grandmother, because now she's all by herself, and she's not in great health, either.
she's my only remaining great-grandmother, and we aren't close at all. i wasn't close to my great-granddad, either. it's kind of sad. when my mom was younger, they never visited, they never called, and she barely considered them grandparents. as she grew up and got married, she contacted them more often, but they never came around to see us or anything. i've been around them maybe a grand total of 10 times in my life.
so i guess i don't feel sad, exactly, except for the fact that i didn't get to know him before he died. i hope my great-grandmother will still be here when we get married.
but anyway, we're driving up to toccoa this evening to go to the visitation. i'm not looking forward to that. but i think it's the right thing to do.
after we leave toccoa, we're going camping or something. we haven't decided yet, but i'm off work the rest of the week, so we want to adventure and chill while we can.
another relative of mine also passed away this week, i think he was probably my third cousin. his funeral is this saturday. i'm not sure if i'm supposed to go or not.
work is very tedious and slow today.