Three years ago, my grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer and started the agonizing treatment. While she was in the hospital, I thought it was my time to be strong for tis brave women who had achieved so much in her life even when faced with huge obstacles. My grandmother took me by surprise when I came to visit her in the hospital and was just as full of life as before her illness. She had the strength to see the positives in the stiuation no matter how grim it became. She took the time to tell her family how much she loved each and every one of us. She advised my mother and sisters to ensure they were regular checked for breast cancer.
The cancer spread and the doctors decided that my that it would be best for my sweet grandmother to speed the last months comfortable at home with her family and friends. I spent as much time with my grandmother as possible in those last few months. She taught me he home recipes and shared her old childhood photographs. She read to me the old love letter between he husband and her before he was killed by enemy fire in Vietnam. She explained how devastated she had been put pulled herself together for her children. She worked several jobs in order to give them the life she felt they deserved and told me she never regretted one second of her life.
Now that my grandmother has passed away, I miss her and know that I was lucky to have know such a amazing women. Her fight with cancer inspired me to aid in the research for finding a breast cancer cure and I participate in the breast cancer charity walks because they make me feel closer to my loving and remarkable grandmother.
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Extra credit post responding to Brittany Payne.
ReplyDeleteBrittany, I am not sure if you have any real ties to the blog you posted, if you do than you were extremely fortunate to have such a great Grandma. If not the point you make about having a positive role model and an encourager during your life is excellent, also the importance of being aware and what to do concerning breast cancer. You really highlight the difference one person can make, even if we are unaware or do not see the end results of our actions. This was a great reminder for me to slow down and weigh my actions and words because they do have an impact even if I am not there to see its fruit. And in closing when I read your blog at first I had a hard time, there were several typos “be strong for (tis) brave women" (this); "grandmother to (speed) the last months" (spend); "devastated she had been put pulled" (but);"taught me (he) home recipes" (the). The parenthesis are what I thought would of made the reading easier. Overall I enjoyed your post, good job.
Brittany, I read your blog about three times. I was a little reluctant to respond. You see, my mother seven years cancer free. She had a double mastectomy. Reading this blog touched home for me. I am one that hates to go to the doctor for check-ups. Many of my female friends often joke about those yearly exams. Five years ago my doctor found a couple of lumps on me. I had surgery, but my lumps were not malignant. Since that first surgery, four years ago I had another surgery just this past December. Because of my family history, my ethnicity, and the fact that I am a female, I fall into the high risk category. When I saw the fear in my daughters’ faces when their grandmother was diagnosis, was enough to encourage women to have yearly exams. I now have to go every six months for exams. I am hoping for a cure for cancer and I have faith that one will be discovered. Your story was true in me.
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ReplyDeleteBrittany,
Your blog was well written and very heartfelt. Those amazing feelings of love and admiration I hope we all feel immediately started tugging at my heart.
Unfortunately, I am too familiar with losing someone to breast cancer. It is a hard process to go through. To see someone you love fight, suffer and ultimately lose the battle against this horrific disease is heartbreaking. I liked that you gave us some character background on the grandmother, before leading to the unfortunate tragedy.
My only advice is watching spelling errors and word usage. It is very true what they say about having someone else read your writing. If at all possible, I always have someone read my writing. Having done that with my own blog, I still ended up catching several spelling and usage errors before I posted my blog. One a completely personal level, it is hard for me to read stories if there is no visual break between paragraphs.
Nice Story!
Dayna Clark