Finding Happiness

Chapter 6

The next few months were very hard on my family.

We were constantly going back and forth to Winston Salem to go to Wake Forest Baptist Hospital. My grandmother, we called her Granny Hill, had heart problems and was becoming very sick, again. My parents found out about her being in the hospital when we got back into port from our cruise, but they didn't tell us until she got worse and they knew how serious this was gonna be. They didn't wanna freak us out.

 

From what I've been told she's always had heart problems, she was even told she couldn't have children. But she was hard headed and didn't listen so she had two children, My Uncle Jeffrey and Lisa. (Yes they are my "step family" but I hate using the word "step", it makes that person, or people, seem less important.)

We all knew Granny Hill wouldn't make it much longer. She wasn't doing very well. I don't really know a lot about what took place in the hospital room because I couldn't see her, so there's not a lot I can tell you.

But I can tell you the exact day and place I was at when I found out about her passing away.

It was September 5th 2010. The day after Lisa's 47th Birthday.

I was with my mom at my uncles house sitting in the car. We had just gotten back from eating at Stameys, the B.B.Q. restaurant in Tyro, when my mom received a text. She showed it to Madyson and she started crying.

I had no clue what was going on but I was worried. We get inside and my mom sat Haylee and I down and told us about her passing away.

I was very hurt and upset, but I had no clue what the next few months had planned for us.

I'd never seen Lisa so out of it. She wasn't the same person I'd known for the past three years. Its like she went in this dark place and couldn't find her way out. It scared me because I didn't know what to do.