Golden Year

Someone told me today that this must have been my golden year. I smiled and nodded, but in my head, I was reviewing the year.

A couple of days before my ‘golden birthday’, my Grandma was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and then a month after, I started helping out my ever weakening grandma do basic things around her house. In the beginning of March, she passed away.

I watched my grandfather hide his grief after losing his second wife to cancer. I watched my mom struggle through life as she lost her second mom to cancer and yet tried to keep everyone else going.