GSWC- Day 17

So for today's writing challenge, we have to write about our saddest memory. That is very hard for me, because I have (unfortunately), had a lot of sad things happen to me in my lifetime. A lot of these sad things are in fact very depressing as well. As a result, I am not exactly sure which one I should write about, but one comes to mind and it almost brings tears to my eyes. This event didn't happen to me personally, but I still consider it one of my saddest events in life because of how it affected me.

About a year ago in July- I got a phone call in the middle of the night from my brother. He was crying and it was hard to understand him. He rarely ever cries so immediately I knew that something wasn't right. He told me that something was wrong with his daughter (for anonymity sake I am not posting their names on here) who was barely over a year and she was in the hospital. They were taking her into surgery because her skull was cracked. 

A few hours later, but what felt like days- I was at the hospital with my parents to see my brother and my niece. I can remember walking in and seeing her strapped to all of the wires, no longer breathing and on life support. My brother was broken, but he had to be strong for the mother of his child. It was maybe a day or two later when they took her off of life support and it was the hardest time for my brother. They had the funeral that weekend and I went to be there for him. I was his shoulder during this tragic time and it makes me sad to remember it, and remember my little niece who we had lost well before her time. I won't go into the circumstances around her death, because they are very dark indeed, but her death is one of the saddest memories I have, and I know that it is the saddest for my brother.

And that is my saddest memory. Being there for my brother. Just sitting her writing it right now makes my heart ache. I wish that this hadn't happened. I still don't understand why it did. It's not something that I like to think about often, because it is so tragic and my family has been through a lot. I wish we haven't but we have and most days we all just have to keep on moving forward.

-Lizzy