Personal Narrative: My Grandpa Changed My Life

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I believe that everyone came to this earth for a reason, to help others. My belief of this is because my grandpa was fine then suddenly, he began getting weaker and weaker and he could not move any part of his right side of his body. This made my family and me very sad. MY family took him into the hospital and it turned out that my grandpa had a tumor in his brain. The neurosurgeon went to do surgery after seven heart stopping hours my grandpa made it through the surgery. All of us were very relieved and so happy, yippee! After that he had PCP’s and the first PCP was honestly, really nice. Her name was Elisa she took care of him every day and he got better.
Than his leg began to swell up, we were so worried and concerned. My mom took him to the hospital and he had brain bleeding. My grandpa survived the surgery, it was a miracle because he had surgery recently and he is
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My parents left at four-o'clock and I was at home all alone. Worriedly, my mom came to pick me up and go see Tyler my brother. The doctors were helping my brother because he had a broken wrist, a concussion and brain bleeding like my grandpa. The saviors of my brother were a couple named Jody and Bobby, they thought my brother was a blanket and they went outside they saw Tyler. Jody tackled my brother into their car and rushed him to the emergency room. That’s when my parents got the call about Tyler.My parents asked Tyler what happened he said he got beat up by someone at his sleepover and he could not remember anything else, but he remembered he got in a fight and broke his wrist.
The people who have helped my grandpa and my brother are apart of our family. What they did to help my family has changed our family forever and the people they helped have been effected forever. The I believe statement really means something to me and my family. The tragedies that happened were really hard to go

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