Personal Narrative: My Experience With Pancreatic Cancer

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I was only 10 years old, such a young girl, when my grandmother passed away. At age ten it’s hard to believe that the world could be so cruel. My mom was always hiding my grandmothers’ sickness from me; she didn’t want it upsetting me. What she didn’t know was that letting me get close to my grandmother in her last year with us really changed my life. My grandma was diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer in 2008 I didn’t really know at the time what cancer was or what it could do to a person. The day my mom told me she was sick I was devastated; no one wants a loved one to be sick. I spent as much time at her house as I could, I would go over after school and after dance class and I spent mostly ever weekend with her and the rest of my mothers’ large …show more content…

I was only given two and a half amazing years with her after that day. She passed away on March 10th in 2010. My mother was always very emotional during my grandmas last couple months but on this day when I saw her pull in the driveway and step out of the passenger side door crying like I’ve never seen her cry before I knew something had happened. She didn’t want me to see her crying so she put her head down and walked straight into her room and shut the door. I was already 10 minutes late to dance class so I had to go. It didn’t take long, halfway through class my teacher gets a call and begins to look around the room of girls and her eyes land on me, she calls me over and gives me a huge hug. In the back of my head I was thinking about so many things like: why was my mom crying so much, why was my dad so quite in the car, why is my dance teacher hugging me in the middle of class. And then it hits me, something has happened something so life altering has happen to me, and I wasn’t prepared for it at all. Now, your probably wondering why my grandmothers death has marked my transition from childhood to adulthood, well its what my grandmother left me after she passed away that really changed my

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