Personal Narrative: Grandma's Positive Fight To Cancer

Grandma's Positive Fight to Cancer
Waking up to the sound of the clapping of her hands making homemade tortillas was part of my daily life growing up in the ranch. Still with my eyes closed, I could smell a combination of the corn tortillas cooking slowly, and smoke of burning wood coming from the brick porch right outside my room. With my mouth watering for the taste of such appetizing meal, made by this woman whom I adore, was the beginning of my days as a child. "Everything has a solution, except death", words so powerful and meaningful she always implied to me. I have learned from experience that the attitude and way in which we see things before doing them, has a powerful impact on its outcome. For example, if I don’t want to cook dinner,

My grandma took the role of a second mother to me and my brothers since mom and dad were often gone working. Grandma's house located only steps away from mine became home to me, since being the middle child often had to be left there. Closing my eyes, I go back in time to those days when walking at a fast firm pace along her side she will talk to me for long hours. A very wise woman who was trying to teach me the purpose of life. How in order to be someone important you first need to know what is it that you want out of life. Once you know what that is, hold on to it with all the strength there is within your soul and fight for it until it's

Procedures were not easy, and the side effects were sometimes harder than the own therapy itself. She will go days without eating any solid foods, and the lack of energy deprived her from getting out of bed. She described feeling so weak that even opening her eyelids made her tired. Her faith, strength and positive way of thinking and believing in herself were essential to overcome this disease. Not only she had won the battle to cancer but she did not lose any of her hair. At age of 65 doctors found it incredibly amazing for such a fast