Grandpam The Most Influential Person In My Life

Influential Person As children grow up they look up to someone that they can trust. This is someone that we home to be like one day. To me, this person is my grandma. She has always been one that wanted to have fun and always to feel young. She hated when we would call her grandma because it made her feel old. So when my older sister was first born and couldn’t say grandma right away, she loved it and thought she had the opportunity to come up with a new name for herself. My sister beat her to it and came up with the name Papacel. My grandma is the most influential person in my life because she is brave, feisty, and strong. My grandma is one of the bravest people I know, she was just twenty three years old when she moved from Trinidad and Tobago to the United States on her …show more content…
On Friday August 13th 2010, my mom received a call from my grandpa saying that my grandma was being rushed to the emergency room and she wouldn’t wake up from her sleep. We left our house right away and when we got there, we found out that my grandma had a brain aneurysm that burst. This was a real shock to me because the days leading up to this, she was fine and seemed like nothing was wrong. The weekend before I stayed with her Friday through Monday while my grandpa was in Pennsylvania. I then talked to her on the phone on Tuesday then went back over to her house on Wednesday to have lunch with her. Thursday was the only day that whole week that I didn’t see her or talk to her. She stayed in the hospital for five months, then was transferred to a rehabilitation center. I went to the hospital everyday with my grandpa for the first month before I had to go back to school to see her. From the aneurysm she now has short term memory loss. Even though she cannot remember what happened, she has not let it change her sense of humor and her