Bone Cancer: A Short Story

“ I keep myself busy with things to do, but everytime I pause, I still think of you, by anonymous.” His beautiful bright big hazel eyes staring into space shining like diamonds. I will never forget the day they closed forever. It was a cold Tuesday morning on May 7, 2013 where my world came crashing down. My world was changed forever……… It was a cold spring morning at about 5am when my parents came to wake all the kids up to tell us to come downstairs to the living room. When we all got downstairs, my step mom and her ex husband and my dad was all standing there with tears staining their pale faces. They told us to sit down and we all listened, eager to listen to what they had to say. We all thought it was going to be good news, but it was …show more content…
The only way Michael found out he had cancer was because he broke his arm playing baseball and that is where it all went downhill after that. He would get really sick because of the chemotherapy. He would get so sick that he could barely move. He lost all his hair and then he wouldn't come see anyone, he always hid in his room. He had to stop going to school at the age of 11 because of all the chemotherapy and a few people were making fun of him. He got home school for a few years, but then eventually just got too tired emotionally and physically drained and didn't want to do …show more content…
He developed a thing for music and so he would always walks around the house on a weekend and turn the radio up really loud and play and air guitar and sing so loud. He loved the song On The Dark Side. His favorite group of singers were Eddy and The Cruisers. He would play it so loud it would wake the whole neighborhood. When he was 13 he was still doing ok, he wasn't in the best shape, but he was still making it and he was still pretty active, but later on that year it all went downhill again. He was very sick and sometimes couldn’t move or even want to get out of bed. It was very sad to see him like that. I hated that I had to see him like that. I just wished I could of done something, anything to help him. By the time he was 15 the doctors gave him only a couple years to live. So we had to make the most of every minute with him. One of my favorite and most memorable moments with him is in the summer it was really hot and we couldn't go anywhere and we didn't have a pool to go swimming. It was scorching outside. So we found this raft and we got the hose and filled up the raft to make like a little pool. It was so much fun I have a lot of pictures of us together that