Personal Narrative: My Papa Bill

My Papa Bill was by far the orneriest and outspoken man i've ever met, he was my best friend and my papa and not a day goes by that i don’t think about him. He passed away December 24th of 2013, three years ago on Christmas Eve. He was in the hospital a week before we had to make the heartbreaking decision to take him off life support because we knew he didn’t want to live off machines. He had been in the hospital many times so i never would've thought that this would be my last time seeing him. The day before he passed away he was considered brain dead, my parents, sister and I all went in to talk to him to say our goodbyes and when we left, all crying messes, the doctor told us he had a brain wave while we were in the room, i thought in that moment everything would be okay and that by telling him i loved him, he was gonna come back to us and call me a “boner” once again. He didn’t and 24 hours later he was gone. This affected me tremendously, he was my best friend and the first 13/14 years of my life were filled with memories of him, he came to our house everyday and never not showed up, so it took a lot getting used to not …show more content…
I had always heard stories about my supposed big sister maddie but at the time i was too young to comprehend exactly what they were saying. When i was older to understand, my parents and grandparents told me about my step- sister Maddie, who is now 21 and in her last year at BGSU, I have yet to meet her and I can’t wait until I do. The only problem is that i don’t know how to approach the subject with her, the entire situation has been and still is very exciting and nerve wracking. It changed my life by, I found out that I have an older sister which is a huge deal and it gives me something to look forward in the hopefully very soon