I Will Never Forget: The Day I Changed From Our Life

I 'll never forget the day it began. I was only 10 years old. It happened so fast after they found it. I was not ready to lose him for there was so much more to learn about him. This was not something easy to accept or deal with for me, or for my family. We may have watched my grandpa quickly disappear from our lives, but he will never disappear from our hearts. My mom constantly had the family over for dinner during the summertime. My grandparent 's along with my uncle frequently came over. Like normal we were having a decent time laughing, adults drinking and everyone waiting for dinner to be ready. I thought the night would go the same as always, but this time things went differently after. It was still early into the night and my grandpa was already falling asleep on the couch. My grandma was concerned and went up to gently shake his arm and said “Bob, Bob wake up, are you okay?” He woke up slowly to respond “What?" "Yeah I 'm okay, I 'm just really tired, can we go?” My grandma then …show more content…
They made him even more tired and very sick. He never really had an appetite anymore. I visited him constantly and every time he was getting worse. His head full of white hair thinned and gradually all fell out. His face was getting more wrinkles and his body was shrinking from losing a bunch of weight. He looked as if he aged 10 years in 3 months. The saddest thing was seeing my grandpa slowly die and knowing that I couldn’t do anything to stop it. As more time passed, we spent the holidays at their house. He was bedridden right after Thanksgiving. It was getting harder on everyone. Then Christmas came and we knew it would never be the same. My family spent as much time as we could together with him except for my dad, he could not watch his dad be in pain anymore and stopped coming. We tried to encourage him to come, but we all felt the same pain. I have never seen my dad so distressed in my life, it was very heart breaking to