Personal Narrative: My Father's Disease

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Laying on my bed with my ipad in my hands, my parents called me and my two brothers down to our living room. A little nervous, to see if something was wrong I quickly ran down my stairs and dashed straight to my living room where I saw my two brothers and my parents gathered around the sofa. When I entered my living room I said to my mom and dad,”what is going on?” My dad sat me down and said to me , I have some devastating news to tell you guys. I slowly sat down, my heart racing like a streak of lightning racing the sky.

Knowing that something sad was about to pour out of my parent's mouths I tried to think on the bright side. I kept saying to myself, it cannot be that bad, it can't be that bad. I was deeply regretting even leaving my room in the first place. He started off by saying your grandmother is very sick. I replied to him saying “with what?” He then answered me by saying your grandmother got diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer. I did not really have a response the first couple of seconds, but then it hit me. Me and my …show more content…

It has been about 2 weeks that she had got diagnosed and my family decided to take a trip up to Pennsylvania because we lived in Rhode Island at the time. After a long, exhausting five and a half hour car ride we finally arrived to my grandmother's apartment! We stayed with her for the next week or so taking turns to taking her to the doctor's office and going to the grocery store and running errands for her. One day she came back from the doctor’s office with more devastating news, she had told my family and I that her cancer had gotten worse and had bumped up to stage four which is the highest stage that you can get. She told us that the doctors said that she had about a year of life left to live. As these powerful words came out of her mouth it felt as if my heart broke into a million tiny

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