This Little Girl

One Year Later

     A year later, my only father figure began to get sick. My grandfather had dealt with cancer in the past but, he always had surgery to get rid of it. I thought he was going to be fine.

     The doctors had put my grandfather on bed rest. The first day he even let me lay in bed with him. One week later he started getting skinnier. He couldn't eat or else he would throw up. His whole system was shutting down, and it was all because of cancer. The next week got even worse and he finally died.

     This put me in such a deep depression that I started getting suicidal thoughts. Of course I didn't act on them, I was only eight. Little did we know that that tragic, traumatic, experience would have a huge impact on my life.