Grandmother

My lovely grandmother's birthday is coming up soon, so I decided to have some flowers delivered to her for the occasion. I found out a few days after I placed my order that my grandma had just learned that she has colon cancer. She is going in for surgery the day after her birthday.

It is times like this that I wish we didn't live so far away from our relatives. We're the only offshoots from our clan living in Texas. Everyone else lives in Michigan and Wisconsin. We made it a tradition to drive up and visit my Grandmother every summer about seven years ago. Sometimes someone couldn't go because of work or school, but a group of us always went up and it always included my father. He will be taking some time off of work so he can drive up and be with her during and after her surgery next week. It feels selfish to say, but I am just as worried for my father as my grandmother.