// A Legend Passes On

After visiting my Grandma on Galiano yesterday, I returned home last night exhausted due to lack of sleep. I stayed up late watching this train video with Fred and Ian about last runs on Vancouver Island, which by the way, was incredibly mind blowing, but that's an entire different post. I just woke up about 30 minutes ago feeling refreshed and ready to go, only to find out from my Sister, that my Grandma has passed away.

She came down with a bladder infection and it got into her blood stream and apparently it's very hard to battle, even if you're in your younger years. She became incredibly sick just a couple weeks ago on her 95th birthday, and it all went downhill from there. It came at the worst possible time, as my Aunt had just left for vacation to Mexico. She had to come home early and lose her entire vacation and all the money that went into it. She, by far, was hit the hardest in this situation.

My Grandma went to a hospital in Victoria, but was brought back this Friday to Galiano so that she could spend her remaining time on earth at her home. I went over there yesterday with Sarah and Fred to see her, but we never expected that to be are last visit. It was incredibly hard to see her in the condition she was, since she could barely talk, and when she first saw me, she thought I was her brother, who pasted away years ago. So we just tried to do what we could, and then went home last night.

She lived an incredible life and you couldn't ask more then to make it to 95, but it is always hard when family passes away, and I can only imagine how my Dad and Aunt feel in such times like today.

As for me, I really don't know what to think about the situation. I tried to be as close as I could with my Grandma, but once my Grandpa past away, things never really were the same. She never really could tell who I was, if I was Matt or Fred, but I always made an effort to try and talk with her, but still, when I was a kid, we would have some better times.

Galiano is just an incredible place, and after my Grandpa left, then that became history, which I never wanted. Now that my Grandma has gone, it really is history, and you know history can't come back. It's just going to be weird going over there with no Grandparents over there... And now I wait for my kids to go over to Galiano to go visit there Grandparents...