My Opa was diagnosed with prostate cancer about a year ago and his health has slowly been decreasing since. I’ve had to deal with the fact that i may never see my Opa again due to long distance and this is really tough.
When my Oma died in ‘07 i didn’t get a chance to say goodbye or even to attend the funeral and this was really hard for both me and my family. While Mum did get to go overseas it was obvious that she had too, but my sister and i stayed home along with Dad. But that was different.. her death was sudden and uncontrollable but my Opa’s death is like an impending doom just looming over our heads and it really really hurts.
Last night Mum offered to pay for my flight over to Holland in May for my Opa and Oma’s 60th wedding anniversary but the only problem is that it is during Uni exams and i don’t think that i’ll be able to do them early or later.
So i’m sitting here with anxiety building up in my chest as i try to decide what to do. To go or not to go, i haven’t started uni yet so it’s hard to say whether or not they’d let me go or not but this is also the only oppourtunity i’m going to get to go and see them before my Opa eventually passes on.
This isn’t the kind of decision somebody should have to make, but this is my last chance and i really should take it but i really have no idea what my uni is going to say.
Tumblr users, if you have any advice for me or anything.. load it on me. I really need some guidance right now. Help?
