Personal Narrative: My Grandpa

Well, a few years ago around 2012 and 2013, my grandpa was diagnosed with cancer, it was a devastating shock to people in my family, and to others. He seemed to always do somewhat well with his health, he was an active person, so no one really expected him to get something like this. We prayed and prayed for him to get better, but he never seemed to get that way. I can remember a time when my grandma’s church had VBS, my grandpa felt bad that he couldn’t come because of his plummeting health, he couldn’t really leave the house, he couldn’t really do anything, just because of this unexpected burden that happened. Somehow, he brought himself down there, it was quite amazing to see that he was so strong to do so. In fact, I remember where I was at, and my …show more content…
Another thing that I remember was when him and my grandma picked me up to take me to their house. I eventually settled in my seat, and I can’t help to notice that my grandpa’s hair seemed to be gone, I asked “Pops, what happened to your hair?” he responded quickly “Oh, I just shaved it off since I’m starting to lose my hair.” At that time I was kinda young to understand what was happening to my grandpa, but now that I look back at it, I’m pretty sure he was starting to go through chemo, and was starting to lose his hair, and he made some excuse to not worry me. Also, I remember another time when I stayed at his brother’s house, which was next door, and it was fairly late at night when my uncle Andy got a startling call from my grandma, I don’t know exactly what she said, but I remember him getting scared and looking outside, everyone followed, from what I remember, I saw every light in the house was on, and I think there may have been an ambulance or my grandma’s car on with the doors open. Also at that time I didn’t understand, but now as I look back at it, he had a health scare, this was when his health was getting very low, and he had to take it