Growing Up In Mobile Alabama Research Paper

Growing up in Mobile, Alabama as a young girl I had to grow up fast.Taking lots of responsibilities. I always been the middle child on both my mother and father side. Its very difficult dealing with your younger siblings making sure their ok. As I grew older my parents always expected more from me than the rest of my siblings. I always had more to do around the house than the others, I thought it was unfair. One day I went to my parents and asked them why do they put so much pressure on me? Why am I doing everything around the house? They then said back because baby you work well under a lot of pressure in this world its going to be people pressuring you everyday.
As I got older responsibilities had gotten bigger. My grandparents were getting

sick right before our eyes. So my responsibilities around the house suddenly changed. I had to focus on helping my grandparents .I didn’t know that my life would turn around so quickly . One day I was helping my grandmother and all of a sudden my grandfather had fallen hard on the ground. When we helped him get up his legs had swell up immediately, so my grandmother had called 911. The paramedics rushed in the house to get him, my heart stated racing. My mother rod with him to the hospital. That night they put him in intensive care which made me worry more. I prayed and prayed asking god to let my grandfather be ok. The next day we went back to the hospital we had gotten more bad news. Dr. Jamie told us that my grandfather had heart failure, and that he would have to have open heart surgery. After hearing that I was broken on the inside. The days went by and my grandfather still wasn’t doing god, we got a call one night saying that my grandfather had pasted. It was a lot on me with my grandmother having cancer, now this! I felt so helpless as Washington stated in the book Up from Slavery " No matter how things look now its going to get better just have faith.
It was exactly a month later after my grandfather pasted. My grandmothers' health started to fell her as well. With her loosing her husband she was married to for forty-five years, she felt as if she had nothing to live for anymore. With her having cancer she was almost in her last stages. She went to the doctor one week, and I over heard the doctor telling my mother she only had 4-6 months to live, I broke down in the hospital I didn’t know what I was going to do. So, they sent her home as months goes by she hit her last stage on cancer. She didn’t know anybody anymore except my mother and I. It broke my heart seeing her like this. One day after I left basketball practice they told me that my grandmother died in her sleep. My life was ruined, I lost the two most important people in my life.