Im in the middle of my dinner my dad says “mom has some really important stuff to tell us”.
I could see in my dad’s eyes that he was heartbroken. She had told us that she has a disease called Wagner’s disease. It is an auto immune deficiency disease. I yet to grasp the “important” in this whole situation.
I did some research on this disease, I looked for hours and read what some people said about it and how they live with it. Then it dawn upon me that a common cold or a simple infection can kill her. At that time I started to get a cold chill down my spine and all these thought started going through my head of getting a call in the middle of the night saying that my mom has passed away or waking up to that. I realized that my mom did everything for me and I treated her like I didn’t care. That’s when I started to straighten up with school. I hated the fact that If my mom did die that month or that year what would I have done to make her proud of me. So as I started to straighten up my life I started to visit with my mom more and for the first few months she seemed down