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Becky was my grandma. I'm not sure of the exact date of her diagnosis with multiple myeloma. Towards the spring of 2005 she started to get worse. That semester was especially hard. I was getting ready to graduate from high school and my family was also trying to deal with this whole situation. My grandma has seven children so you can imagine the family get togethers. My aunt would fly in from out of state almost every other weekend. But no matter what my grandma never stopped smiling. You could tell she was in pain but she never let it show.
We had a lot of emergency hospital trips of when we thought that it would be our last time with her. But it wasn't. It was about middle of July and the doctors were like seven days. So, we prepared ourselve for that. Seven weeks later she was still moving around. The doctors were surprised at this and so they did some more blood tests. And they came back and her levels were off the charts. Doctors were amazed. My grandma was eating pizza, doughnuts, and milk shakes. She had it almost every day. Then on September 8 we received a call from the hospice nurse saying it wouldn't be much longer. So we all raced there and stayed by her side. By that time she had fallen into a coma. She would breath out really hard and then stop for about forty-fifty seconds and then breath in real deep. She did that for a couple of hours. We had baby monitors in the house so we could all hear to make sure she was still with us. I decided to go home around eleven and stay with my dad since he lived about twenty minutes away. My grandma hated saying goodbye so she said see ya later. So, that night I held her hand and kissed her cheek and whispered in her ear that I would see her later. I knew that I wouldn't see her the next day. At 3:10 am we got a call from her house and she passed away. My grandma loved her family. She always had a smile on her face even when she was in a lot of pain. She was an amazing Christian woman who loved her friends and family very much. Hopefully, she is watching over my family.
Rebecca "Becky"
September 9, 2005
We had a lot of emergency hospital trips of when we thought that it would be our last time with her. But it wasn't. It was about middle of July and the doctors were like seven days. So, we prepared ourselve for that. Seven weeks later she was still moving around. The doctors were surprised at this and so they did some more blood tests. And they came back and her levels were off the charts. Doctors were amazed. My grandma was eating pizza, doughnuts, and milk shakes. She had it almost every day. Then on September 8 we received a call from the hospice nurse saying it wouldn't be much longer. So we all raced there and stayed by her side. By that time she had fallen into a coma. She would breath out really hard and then stop for about forty-fifty seconds and then breath in real deep. She did that for a couple of hours. We had baby monitors in the house so we could all hear to make sure she was still with us. I decided to go home around eleven and stay with my dad since he lived about twenty minutes away. My grandma hated saying goodbye so she said see ya later. So, that night I held her hand and kissed her cheek and whispered in her ear that I would see her later. I knew that I wouldn't see her the next day. At 3:10 am we got a call from her house and she passed away. My grandma loved her family. She always had a smile on her face even when she was in a lot of pain. She was an amazing Christian woman who loved her friends and family very much. Hopefully, she is watching over my family.
Rebecca "Becky"
September 9, 2005
