My Family pt. 4

My family pt. 4

The year started to get better and our family started to get their lives back together. We were starting to spend money again, go shopping, or go to the park. We were just enjoying ourselves once again thinking that this year will be a good year. For most of the year we had a good and peaceful time. We were having a good time until September 2011. In September 2011, my grandma went to the doctors for a regular doctor’s appointment. The doctors told her that they found fluid in her lungs and that she should get surgery or she will die in two years. She told the doctors no at first and then my mother asked what was the percentage of her making it through this surgery. The doctors said that she has an 80% chance of making it through and a 20% chance of dying. My mom and grandma wasn’t agreeing at first but the doctor made it so believable that nothing would happen to my grandma and it would save her from going in and out of the hospital constantly. So they finally gave in and said okay to the surgery. My grandma was so scared of the surgery the day she went in for the surgery was a scary day. She was in the surgery room for a total of 6 hours. When they were done with the surgery they told us that she made it through but has brain damage due to the strokes she had during the process. The brain doctor told us that what we see is what she will be like for the rest of her life. We told the doctor that he was wrong that there was still a chance. So every day we would go to the hospital and work with her. We would give her water, talk to her, and tell her to open her eyes. We would even move her arm and legs for her to try and help her remember how to. Finally after about a week she had opened her eyes really wide. This excited everybody because it was a sign that she was getting better. Then a couple more weeks down the road we got her to move her arm a little and then her right leg. At times she would get frustrated with us but it’s what we had to do. My grandmother survived for about three months in the hospital and then she passed away at 6 a.m. in the morning.