kittylady1972
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- Oct 20, 2003
I am so sad to hear this news. I had a grandfather that I watch battle with cancer. I was in my first year of college when they stopped all treatment. I will be praying for your family.
Thank you for your kind words. Sorry about your grandfather. Sadly I have a very similar experience as my kids probably will soon know. My grandmother (my mom's mom) battled colon cancer and passed away during my senior year of high school after battling it for quite some time. Not long after that, my other grandmother (my dad's mom) was diagnosed with cancer. Since she was in her 80s at the time, she decided not to undergo any treatment. She died about a year and a half later, when I was starting my second year of college. I still recall that last visit I had with her when I drove home for the weekend and I'm not even sure she knew I was there.
My kids have never had really any experience with death of somebody close to them....which is a good thing. The closest thing for comparison was when my last grandparent, my mom's dad, passed away suddenly back in March 2006, right after my birthday. My kids were 5, 3 and 1 at the time though so while they had the chance to enjoy getting to know their great-grandfather, and he got to know them, they didn't really know or understand much about his death. I didn't take them to the funeral...they stayed with my in-laws instead for that.
So my heart breaks for them thinking about how hard this will be for them to go through. I lost my first grandparent at about age 8 or so, but I wasn't terribly close to him as my dad is the 2nd youngest of 8 kids in that family so it was a huge family that we mostly saw on holidays and sometimes summer gatherings. I can recall the day my mom got the call from my dad that he had passed just as I recall the days I received word of my grandmother's passing in college and of my grandfather's passing suddenly in 2006. Those moments just stay with you and I am not looking forward to my kids having that memory with them.