My Most Important Lessons Learned

All the time you hear people say "seize the day", "live in the now", "don 't take anything for granted," but until something actually happens in your life you never really understand what that means. My Grandpa had been taken from me and I couldn 't do anything to change it. Eventually after a long 3 weeks, he finally came home, but during those 3 weeks my family and I learned some of the most important lessons. We have learned to live in the present and not take so much for granted.

The night that I learned my grandpa was sick was on a game night. I had gone with the girls basketball team to their game. We had won the game and had just let everybody off the bus at the elementary school. The only people left on the bus were Cole Palmer, Steve Bell, Tulio Ungario, Michaela Dewyer, and myself. I had just texted my mom and told her that we were on our way to the high school. I was talking to Cole when my mom had texted me back. "Message grandma. I have to leave with dad (grandpa in hospital). Blood pressure," was all the information I got. Instantly I froze. I just sat in the seat and had no idea what to do. I asked Cole to use his phone because I needed to figure out what was going on. My mom had just laid a bombshell on me and expected me to be fine. I was not. I called my mom and was told

The problem was not just high blood pressure. It was a brain bleed. The doctors found a brain bleed and had to fix it. Grandpa went to Buffalo where the doctors performed surgery to fix the brain bleed. The surgery held for a couple of days, but then we found out it didn 't. When I found out that the surgery wasn 't holding, I realized that the last thing that I said to him wasn 't that I loved him or goodbye, it was "see you tomorrow." It really hurt me to realize that I hadn 't told him that I loved him recently. That week the doctors had fixed the problems, so Mom and Dad decided to take us to Buffalo that