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THE DAY MY LIFE CHANGED By Brigit Geiver

I never realized that I would never see my grandpa again as I got up and said good morning to him and then got ready to go to school. If I had known what was going to happen that day, well...

One day my mom picked me up from school and after I was done talking about how I had such a good day at school I finally realized my grandpa wasn't there. Usually he's there because he goes to chemo and then mom picks me up when he is done with chemo. Today he wasn't there and I asked mom where he was.

"Mom grandpa’s at the hospital right?" My mom shook her head and a tear rolled down her face. I looked out the window of the car and stared as if mesmerized by the trees rushing past and the giant thunder heads as I tried to figure out where my grandpa was. Then time itself seemed to slow down as I realized what had happened, the pain I felt in that moment was worse than I had ever felt before and it seemed to tear at my insides like a lion as I thought about all the times that I had shared enjoyment with him and all the nice times we had together rushed through my mind like a hurricane but was gone in seconds. That's when the tears came, they spilled out all my worries that I had for him ever since I found out that he had a cancer brain tumor. They spilled out everything that I had ever worried and I cried, and cried, and cried. When we got home my mom held me in her arms and we cried together, she said it was okay to cry because it was time to let him go.