What Two Grandparents and Grief Taught Me
My Grandma Chaffin passed away last year in February. I remember getting an email at work from Caleb to call him. I was working in the lab at the time, and I was in a study room by myself working on food. I don't know why this is so vivid in my memory but it is. So, I go out to the hallway to call him, somewhat knowing what was to come. I didn't know how hard it would hit me. I finished my work day after talking to my boss, and I was very thankful to go the funeral. My last memory with her is in June of 2018, Caleb emailed me to call him. Again, this is such a vivid memory. Receiving an email to call him as I'm doing food in a study and so I called him. He told me that everyone thinks she's going to pass on and that if I want to say good bye, I should come home. I asked a manager if I could leave since mine was out of the office that day. I was going up north for Big Ticket Festival for the rest of that week so I didn't have to worry about coming back. I finished m...