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When we made it back into her room, Mama was wide awake. She said,

“I am sorry I had to tell ya’ll, now you walking in her looking at me like I am dying or something! Cut that shit out and treat me like I am alive! That is why I did not want to say anything at all!”

After Mama said that I was truly confused. I didn’t even want to look at her all! I felt like I was letting her down by looking sad. How could we not look sad? She is our mother and we just got the news that she has stomach cancer! How were we supposed to look at her?

I looked over at Tonya and her eyes were glued to the ceiling, I looked over at Yvonne and her eyes were glued to the hospital room door. I didn’t know what the hell to do so I stared at the TV. Mama busted out laughing at us! We were completely distraught and Mama was laughing at us.

“Girls stop it! Just stop it! It is ok to look at me. I know ya’ll just got this news and I know there are massive amounts of emotions running through your hearts right now. Come here all of you and give me a hug. I love you all so much.”

We gathered round Mama and we all hugged her and we cried. We dared not ask how much longer she would be with us, we were hoping for a sudden cure.

There were no more questions. Everything was out in the open now. My children had been calling my cell phone for hours. I knew they wanted to know why Gram was in the hospital. I decided that I would not tell them until I saw them all face to face.

Eventually, I called the house and I told everyone to stay home and wait for me because I wanted to tell them all at the same time. I wanted them to know what was going on.

We stayed at the hospital with Mama all night long and it was around about six in the morning when I decided to go home. ...

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...n a hospital. Gram doesn’t do hospitals or doctors for that matter.”

More tears came and flooded my words again. Sheldon brought me some tissue. Eric came to hold my hand. I was finally able to blurt it out.

“Your grandmother has stomach cancer!”

I dropped my head on the kitchen table and cried another river. Speaking those words took a massive amount of energy out of me, but I finally got them out of my system.

Everyone gathered around me. They were all crying. Through tears Morgan said,

“Gram is going to be alright. She has always made everything alright for everybody else. She’s going to pull through this.”

Eric, Paul and Sheldon were silent, but tears streamed down their faces. I stood up and we all hugged each other for a bit.

In between tears Sheldon asked when they would be able to see Gram. I sat back down at the table and I took a sip of my tea.