CLOSING TIME THE BEGINNING OF A NEW LIFE

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It's closing time and basically it would remind us of home and going back to our loved ones and relaxing after a hectic day of work ,closing time reminds me of death and how short life can be .When ones life ends then it's closing time for them.

This is my entry for the #Theinkwell weekly prompt and the topic for this week is ( CLOSING TIME ) I have worked in a phone shop where I had to work from 7am in the morning till 7pm in the night , because I needed money as a graduate fresh out of school, and each day towards evening i yarn for the closing time just so I can go back home to my mom and sister.

I had to quite the job only to land into another job that closed by 10pm and I almost got shot one night while returning from work and that was the end of the job.

This post is not about closing time which is just dismissing from work and going home , it's more about family and who we call our home , people who are our comfort zone and those who love and care us unconditionally.

In the year 2024 January to be precise my mom and I moved into my sister's house in Abia state, before that my mom was staying in my brother's house , I was actually with her there by it was never my comfort zone . So when I went to school to round up my project work I was called that my mom has moved into my sister's house and I was really happy.

My sister's name is Sybil and she is my only sister ,so when I returned from school I had to travel down to my brother's house to pick up my stuff and travel down to my sister's house. Living with my sister Sybil was the best time of my life.

So Sybil was diagnosed with breast cancer at the late stage and her left breast was already infected, began under going chemotherapy in preparation for the surgery to remove the left breast. And the chemotherapy sessions really weighed down on her and made her very weak.

Well after the first surgery she felt a little better and mom was finally at peace and we thought that was the end of it until it started off on the right breast .

Another session of chemotherapy started and this time around the side effects were too much for her to handle and she kept slipping in and put of consciousness,we kept on rushing her to the hospital more often because of different episodes she kept having.

Mean while all this while mom was also sick , she is hypertensive and diabetic , being through a lot of stress because of my sister's health, mom's health took a toll on her ,she had hypoglycemia oneday luckily we were able to find a remedy for to it on time and she felt better.

So getting to the middle of the year sybils health really went down the drain and she was rushed to the hospital and she spent some months in the hospital , the cancer kept spreading, from the right breast to the lungs , she had to stay on Oxygen for 3 months.

We all tried our best to hide it all from mom but sometimes it's hard to separate a daughter from her mother , she always felt like we were lying to her. Unfortunately things got out of hand and the cancer kept spreading till it got to the brain and she began to have seizures.

That was when the doctor told us that she had just a two weeks to live and it broke me I got home and cried but I couldn't bring myself to tell mom anything , because I was scared for her health. Knowing that she is old and won't handle it well.

After the second seizure a week later on a Sunday evening my sister gave up the ghost and left us in this cold world alone , I remember crying myself to sleep all night and consoling my inconsolable mom. It was my sybils closing time in life. Just like the song said (every new beginning comes from some others beginnings end ).

We all focused on consoling mom because she is all we had left. Well after the burial earlier this year we moved into my brother's house again and to be honest this time, things were a little bit better and got better as the year got by.

After the closing time of my sister came when I least expected my bond with my mom increased and we bonded more and am happy for that.

This is my entry for #Theinkwell weekly contest.

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