Personal Narrative: My Uncle

My uncle had been dealing with some health issues for a while when it happened. Years of poor diet choices and junk food finally caught up with him. After two Emergency room visits, my mom finally got my uncle, or “Tio”, to get himself tested. The results said that his kidneys were failing and his body’s protein levels were one hundred and twenty-four times that of a normal person. Tio had gotten dangerously thin and his skin was almost gray. The cause of this was lupus.
After that, my uncle had to go on a very strict diet. He could no longer have a lot of meat, which was the only thing he ate before. He was also unable to have things with too much potassium and sodium. Tio could only have tiny amounts of liquids and nothing too acidic …show more content…
He had to do six months of chemotherapy, which is very taxing on a person’s body. Since my mom is a caregiver she was the one who took care of him. My mom, my brother, and I ended up moving in with my cousins.
My cousins and I are very used to living together. In sixth grade when my grandma moved in we all practically lived in her house, and in seventh grade I babysat my cousin and ended up spending the nights there a lot. My cousin, Valerie, who is two years older than me ended up sharing a room with me. Her little sister, Emma, had a bed in Valerie’s room but still slept in her parent’s room. I ended up sleeping in Emma’s bottom bunk on her My Little Pony sheets.
Helping my cousins adjust to the diet was hard. They didn’t really understand why they had to at least partially follow his diet too. My mom had to explain that if they didn’t support their dad in that way that it would be harder for him to follow his renal diet. Since their dad was on chemotherapy he could no longer go to work since his immune system was shut down. My mom explained that since his immune system was attacking itself the doctors were shutting it down with chemotherapy.”It's kinda like hitting the reset button,” she told