Reflective Essay: Hiding My True Thanksgiving

While I was going to write a basic fluff piece hiding my true Thanksgiving experience I thought it would be better to describe the events that really unfolded over the last week. When I left Tuesday night to visit my home in Northern Connecticut looking for a little bit of peace and quiet along with tranquility of having a nice vacation surrounded by family. While I did get the surrounded by family part correct peace and quiet along with tranquility went out the window as soon as Thanksgiving started. If there was one word to define my vacation it would have to be entropic.
On Tuesday night when I got home everyone was sleeping due to it being around 11PM but when I got home my dad woke up and greeted me though my mom was sleeping in the chair dead to the world. I played video games and thought everything was going to pan out for a nice …show more content…
my father and aunt quickly escorted my mother out of the car as I quickly looked to snag a parking spot. I got lost as made my way back to the gigantic building in my pursuit to find my family. My mother was quickly escorted to a room in order to do some medical testing such as CT scans and MRIs. As we awaited the results from testing we were nervous and praying for the best result possible. The doctor quickly escorted us out into the hallway in order to talk to us about the results. Telling from his nonverbal communication I could tell that this was not going to be easy to hear. As he progressed through his description there was a sentence that had everyone a bit on edge “she has a Glioma tumor in her brain.” As we all heard the news my father quickly reaching out for my hand seeking some comfort as hearing how bad the result was. We made our way back into the room and tried to not act somber in hopes it would cheer up my mom however the doctor came quickly in afterwards and mentioned the same thing to her. My father and I stayed till 11PM due to my dad needing to take some urgent medication