Stick Close To Your Family

I’ll always remember the time that both of my grandfathers were in the hospital at the same time. One of them had a stroke and was told he would never walk again while my other grandfather was having open heart surgery. It’s always hard to deal with the fact that someone close to you is on the edge of dying but to have two family members at the same time makes it all the worse. I remember going each day I could and visiting them both on separate floors. I remember thinking to myself that if one of them didn’t make it how I would have felt by not seeing them as much as I could have when they were alive and healthy.  A matter of days went by and both had recovered well and were able to leave the hospital. My grandpa that had the stroke was actually able to walk within weeks and has been walking fine ever since.  Both of them are in good health now and I see them as often as I can because after their life threatening experience it has taught me to stick close to them.  Any day they could leave this world and I want to be sure I spent all the time I could with them while I had the chance, and not regret the times I could have seen them and didn’t.