The hardest goodbye
to say
The
hardest and obviously the most painful goodbye I’ve had to say was the one I
never got to say. My dad was struck by cancer early last year he had a form of
cancer that spreads easily from one part of your body to another. His radiation
treatments were over and the tumors in his head were shrinking and the tumors
in his armpits had completely gone away. We went to the hospital to help him
get over this stage of not being able to eat and drink stuff without keeping it
down long enough to do any good. He was put on this medicine to completely
remove waste from his body so he could eat food and keep it down. 2 days after
he was put on this medicine he had a bad reaction which put him in a coma. After
a few hours we heard the nurses talking about his condition and they described
it as the sleeping death were a patient is comatose and their body slowly dies
from lack of oxygen to the brain causing it to cease all functions. The first
day I knew he was in the hospital I couldn’t stand being in the room because I couldn’t
stand to look at this skeleton of a man who was once the most important figure
in my life. A virus had withered this man to nothing but a paper thin layer of
skin covering his bones.
The time
came when I had to leave to go home and I said goodbye for now to an
unconscious man who couldn’t hear my goodbye. Later that night he died in a
hospital bed with only my mother at his side his children all gone home hours
before, I never got to say goodbye to him before the funeral.
