How Is My Mother Taken For Granted

“Never take your loved ones for granted, because you never know when their hearts will stop beating, and you won't have the chance to say goodbye.” Not everyone is blessed with what I am blessed with. I have what many people in the world don’t have. I have a caring and hardworking mother, whom I've once taken for granted. My mother has two children which are my older brother and me. My brother and I has both has caused my mother pain and taken everything she has done for us for granted.

My mother is currently sick and has been for the last few years. As the years progressed, she has become more and more sick with different health issues. Five years ago in 2010, she found out she had gallstones and fibroids, which caused her stomach to bloat and feel pain. She went back and forth to doctors and was told if the gallstones move inside her, she could possibly lose her life. She knew she had to have
I know it was really tough for her to be a sick mother and feeling like neither of her kids didn't care about her. My brother hasn't made that step in his life to let the past go. I knew it was time for me to move on and be there for my mother because I don't know and she don't know when she will take her last breath. I was being ungrateful and selfish, but I can no longer be that way. My mother is all I have in this world. No one could ever take the place of the woman who gave me life. She has always put my brother and I first. She is the type of mother who will fight for her children before she will fight for herself. I have learned to appreciate the mother that I have and not take her for granted because there are not many people in the world who have a mother like I do. I am making every second that I have with my mother count because I might not get the chance to say goodbye to her when she is gone and I want her to leave this world knowing that she was loved