Epiphany: A Short Story

Three thousand miles away, the love of animals and stubbornness lead my family to have a health scare and for me to have an epiphany. In the spring of my sophomore year, my grandfather was rushed to the hospital. He could not see and his left eye was swollen. At the time the only source was my aunt who lived in El Salvador with them. We were 3, 258.2 miles away from them without knowing what was going, unless my aunt or grandmother were to call us. The doctors ran multiple tests on him and did not know what was causing his left eye to swell and the loss of vision. I remember the terrifying call like it was yesterday. I had just arrived home and was watching TV in my bedroom. My mother was talking to my aunt when I heard her exclaim “¿Que?,”