A heart of gold

The day my world changed

I remember everything, the lights of the ambulance, my sister crying, my mother’s screams and even the people that helped her. That day my father was at work and my mother needed to get to work also. So my mother decided to bring my sister and I to our grandparents house. My mother can not drive so we had to take a bus there. We had just come off of a bus coming from the direction of our home and transferred to another bus that would take us straight to their house. I lived in a city where everyone is rushing trying to get to their destination, not really caring about the people around them. Pedestrians had to be careful crossing the street or they could get hit by careless drivers. The bus drivers in our city are notorious for letting you on the bus and speeding off not caring if you are seated or not. My grandparents home was only one stop away. Like always my mother made sure that me and my sister sat down before anything. My sister has down syndrome so she does not have very good balance and any fall for her can be fatal because of her neck. After making sure me and my sister were seated, my mother went to go put bus fare in the machine and at this point the driver is already driving off. On her way back is when the accident happened, the bus driver slammed on the brakes resulting in the bus jolting forward and my mother went flying. In the process she smashed against the bar handles many times really hard resulting in the ambulance being called and her injuring her back. After that day our life’s have never been the same since then.

The person with the heart of gold

After the accident my mother could not walk, write or do anything on her own properly. Much less take care of us. If it had not for this one person in our life’s I don’t know how we would have survived. Her name is Melissa, a courageous woman with a heart of gold and a family of her own. She helped out my mom a lot and still took care of her own two kids. My sister would take the school bus to get to school but I had to be taken to school, which was difficult for my mom with the amount of pain she was in. So everyday Melissa would get up early in the morning and come from halfway across the city to take me on the bus to get me to school on time and back. Till this day she still amazed me, she was like super women to me. She had a lot of responsibilities at home but still took the time out of her day to help and care for someone else and their family. Melissa’s kindness did not stop there though, because my mother could not do any physical work. Melissa stepped in and helped out around the house. She would take our clothes home with her to wash them for us, as well as go to the grocery store for us. She would do other little things for us that our mother did not have the strength to do like wash our hair, cook our dinner and help clean our house. If it was not for Melissa I don’t think a lot of important things would have gotten done.

Thank you for everything

Melissa’s act of kindness went a long way for me and my family. She took me and my sister under her wing and supported my mother which made their bond even stronger. If it weren't for Melissa my sister and I might have had to go live somewhere else, at that time my father was not in the proper position to take care of us which would have left my mother all alone. So to Melissa, thank you for being the rock we needed to lean on, a friend who loved us and a person with a heart of gold.