Personal Narrative-Grandmother's Death

I believe everything happens for a reason and people have to find the good in the bad. When my great-grandmother died it was really hard on my family. She was a very important woman to us all. She was very kind and sweet and would help whoever she could. When she died it traumatized my family a bit. She was very special to us, but we pulled through it, and we knew she wouldn’t be suffering anymore.
My mom, grandmother and aunt were informed on a Thursday that she was sick and had been admitted to a hospital, by my cousins who lived with her in South Carolina, 2 weeks before she died. My family decided to drive up to South Carolina to see her on the soonest Saturday. My mom told my brother and me to pack our suitcase because we were staying

down south for 2 days to see my grandmother. My brother couldn’t get off of work so he explained that he couldn’t go.
“Taje, pack your bags” My mom said with tears in her eyes.
“Why?” I asked
“We’re going to South Carolina to see great-grandma, she’s in the hospital”
“Oh” I said, not knowing what else to say.
On that Saturday my mom, grandma, Aunt, cousins and me drove up to South Carolina.

We left at 3 o’clock in the morning. It took 10 hours to get there because of the many bathroom breaks and food breaks we took. My mom and mom both took turns driving because they were tired. Everybody else just slept a majority of the way there. We finally got into South Carolina around 1 o’clock in the afternoon. It took a while to get a hotel because we hadn’t booked one before went down there and most of them were filled up for the weekend. It took around an hour to find a hotel that had 2 rooms available. We needed one for my mom and I and one for my aunt and her children. We checked into our rooms and unpacked our bags. My mom called my cousins that lived in South Carolina and told them we were in South Carolina, and that she needed their address so we could go over their house since we haven’t seen them in a long time. We finished packing and changed our clothes and went back to the car. My mom was the one driving, she put the address in her GPS, and followed it. It took us about 20 minutes to get there from our hotel. Our cousins came out to greet us when we got to their house. We all hugged each other and went inside the house to eat. After we finished eating and talking, we decided to go see my great-grandmother. We all left the house and got into the car big van. My mom was the one driving again, so she put the hospital’s address in the GPS and begin driving there. It took around 15

minutes to get to get hospital from my cousins’ house. We got to the hospital and asked the receptionist where my great-grandmother was. We went to her room and saw here her, we called hugged her and spoke to her for a little bit, even though she couldn’t talk herself. The doctor then came in and explained that she had a brain tumor. My mom and aunt broke down in tears as soon as they heard that. We said our goodbyes and went back to my cousins’ house. We hung out there for a while and went back to the hotel to pack up and leave the next day. It was pretty late, so we went to sleep. We woke up very early in the morning to start driving back to Maryland, which took another 10 hours to get back. We finally arrived back in Maryland went back home. We were unpacking when we got a phone call saying that my great-grandmother had died. My family cried and grieved for a long a time. She died on mother’s day of 2009.
This memory has stayed with me for a long period of time because my grandmother was very special to me. She died on the day we were supposed to celebrate her. Her death hurt everybody. Especially my mother and my mom’s mom. Her death hurt me the most. I would never forget my great-grandmother.