Today at 6:23 pm January 23rd 2022, we lost my maternal grandma to bone cancer. She battled long and fought hard. She endured extreme pain. Her heart functioned at 20% and at the time she was diagnosed with the illness, it was already late. Doctors declared that she could not endure chemotherapy. Above that, she had fractured her spine and could hardly move her lower body. She could not have been operated on as her heart could not bear with that. Last summer she contracted covid and made it out fine while having a partially functioning heart, fractured spine and bone cancer in multiple locations.
She was a happy, funny, honest, pure and loving woman. A mother of five children whom she taught well. She was nothing but full of love for everyone.
Her last days in the mortal world were terrible and full of suffering. For a wonderful woman like her, the end should not have been this way.
She is in a better place now.
In her last time, she was surrounded by her family and was taken complete care of as much as she could have had.
Her son, a doctor, and her middle daughter of 3 daughters, my mother, tried all ways to lessen her pain with all the resources, vigilance and care possible. Made sure she did not feel scared and helpless. Everyone around her did everything they could and my mother spent sleepless nights and tireless days over the last month.
For the last month, she had barely been able to eat anything. She was administered nutrients in liquid form. She fell in trans yesterday and her body stopped accepting food a day before that.
She took care of me when I was born till I was a year older. And cherished me whenever I used to visit. I am told, of all the children she had looked after she loved me the most. I remember I used to mimic her and that cracked her up. I remember getting her a gift from my first salary. I remember her being amazed when she took it, reflecting back on the time I had just been born and now that I had grown old enough.
A loss tells you what you had. Moments like these give you a perspective on life. Of all things we have time is something extremely scarce and unpredictable. The journey we are on is short and fleeting. Spend it doing things that make you happy and with people you love. Experience joy while you can because you never know what awaits you.
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