A Sad Day in My Life

A Sad Day in My Life


In life nothing is predictable, but knowing this doesn’t make it any easier when you lose a
Love one. I would not wish this type of pain on anyone because it happened to me. It was one week before Christmas. I had just had got my surgery for scoliosis one week prior to it happening. I remember being rolled down the hall to the operating room. I was extremely nervous, because I didn’t know what to expect. There are many surgeons and nurses in the operating room. The surgery took about nine hours to get done. Following the surgery, I was sent to the intensive care unit for two days to be watched and make sure that I didn’t have any complaications. The day following the surgery, I was in enormous pain, so the doctor had to keep me sedated to keep me comfortable, therefore, most of the time I was out of it, due to the medication.
Even though I was in a lot of pain, I was excited that it was almost Christmas. Christmas was a holiday that I always looked forward to ever since I was a little girl and it was a time that I enjoyed spending with my family, especially my grandmother. My grandmother loved cooking big meals for the entire family. That was one thing that gave her so much joy and sometimes she would let me help her prepare meals just to spend quality time with her. As I lying in my hospital bed, I began to think about my grandmother and all of the good and special times that we shared together. I knew that she had not been feeling well before my surgery, but I thought that she would get better. I was in so much pain after my surgery that I didn’t get a chance to ask about my grandmother for a couple of days, but I always thought about her. As my father sat in the chair by my bed his cell phone began to ring. The call was from my uncle, asking my dad to come meet with the family at the hospital where my grandmother was. The doctors wanted all of the family to come together to discuss my grandmothers situation. My dad’s conversation...