Personal Narrative: Brain Tumors

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Cancer has always scared me, but never like these past few years have. On October 15, 2012, my grandma of age 72 passed away in her home with her loving husband by her side. My world was shattered. My grandma was my cooking, sleepover, dress up, laughing and hiking buddy. She was the woman I looked up to the most. When she kept forgetting to bake the cookies when she thought she did, or when she kept forgetting what day it was, we knew that something was wrong. The call came on a bright and sunny Sunday afternoon. Grandma was diagnosed with Brain Tumors that were too large to treat, and lung cancer that had been undetected for years. My grandma underwent chemo therapy that made her very weak. All throughout this hard journey, she always,

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