Family:#1

This I Believe
In my time so far I have had my obligation to take care of my family to go on as my grandmother, my aunt with Down syndrome, and my mom who was recently diagnosed with cancer. My grandmother since I was in eighth grade had two heart attacks and then was told she had congestive heart failure. Since she found that out my mom and I sold our house and moved in to take care of her and my aunt. My senior year in high school was the time that she was getting worse; she was getting scared so she would ask me to stay up with her which then would be entire night so I would basically go to school with no sleep. The thing that really hit me the most was that it was her last week and she kept asking me what the date was and then finally on October 8 she passed away which was the anniversary of her mother’s death.
Now that my grandmother had passed all the focus went to my aunt with Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s. I would basically wake up feed my aunt, give her her medicine, go to school, and then come home until we went to bed. My aunt is basically the most loving person that you will ever meet but has been given to her a terrible disease. Then in the summer of ’07 my mom was diagnosed with cancer which needed surgery so we would pay money to have someone watch my aunt so I could visit her in the hospital for a little while and then I would come home and take care of my aunt. Now my days are to wake up, go to school, soccer, and go home to take care of them until they go to sleep.
Family is the most important thing in anyone’s life. The reason that I say that is because they took care of me when I was younger so now it’s my responsibility to take care of them with no excuses or complaints. I think without family life is dry and meaningless. This I Believe!