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Personal Narrative: A Day At The Nursing Home
I have a lot to talk about. There's a lot going on in my life. I always thought my grandma would never pass away. I always knew she would eventually but I did not it expect to happen when it did. My grandma was like my best friend, I love spending the night at her house and then waking up to french toast in the morning. She fell on a Friday night and I was supposed to spend the night at her house on Saturday. I found out at Saturday that she fell from my pastor. My uncle wouldn't call my mom so I was crying when I found out because I did not know all of what happened or if she was okay or not. I finally found out that she fell and hit her head and she had a brain bleed. When I was able to see her, she didn't really know who I was. I had to remind but that was okay, I was just happy to see her. She was getting better we thought but then about 3 weeks ago she was leaning to her left side, and my mom thought she had a stroke. She asked the nurse that night at the nursing home if she could figure out what was wrong with her but she said "I'm …show more content…
I went from the first night she was in the nursing home til the day she passed every day to see her. From when we thought she had a stroke you could just see her giving up. I finally told my grandma that it was okay if she wanted to go to heaven, she could be with my grandpa and baby cousin. My pastor called my on 12/30/15 telling me that my uncles asked her to go and pray over my grandma's body. She invited me to go with her, which I did. She then passed away on 01/04/2016. I was able to speak at her funeral which was the hardest thing I have done. I was crying the whole time I was speaking. I was just so happy to see how many people that attended her viewing or funeral. Mrs. Kolar even came, my grandma was her fourth grade teacher. I want to be a teacher because of my grandma now. I hope I can be as strong and courageous as she was. I just want to make her and my grandpa

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