“Where is he? Where is he mom!!?” I said yelling coming to the hospital. It was on my older brothers birthday. My dad was in the hospital. “They said he needs surgery. An open heart surgery.” My mom said sobbing. We were all crying in the hospital, my aunt, uncle, mom, brothers and a lot other family friends. I had gotten picked up from school by my uncle and he told me on the way to the hospital, I went cold.

The doctor said he needed surgery because he had gotten in an car accident which had after affects and a couple of the veins in his heart were ripped and a lot of blood had been leaked out of the veins and into his body. My dad a very humorous and loving person. I was dying inside but not a single tear shed from my eye. I loved my dad and I’m sure everybody there did too.
The doctor said that there was 95% that he wouldn’t make it through the surgery, because it had gotten so dangerous. So there was only 5% chance he will make it. The doctor's voice echoed in my head like sharp needles poking through every part of me, like I was stepping right on sharp glass knowing that it's there. I was lost in a world all black no ray of light could be seen anywhere, walking blindly through it all. 
The hospital looked like a haunted house with everybody looking like walking zombies. I don’t know how long I was like that until my mom broke the thought. I couldn’t even think of losing my dad. My mom called me a couple of times till I answered her dryly. “What mom.” She looked very excited and it looked like she had been crying for days. “Your dad is fine he made it through the surgery!!!” I got up in shock thinking, how?, but who cares my dad is fine now.
We were praying to god through the whole incident. God had given my dad a new life. Who could have imagined that there was 5% chance that he will make it, and he did. I thanked god and went and saw him. He looked so weak and tired. I couldn’t stand it. I ran out of the room crying, for the first time I cried through the whole process.
I was so happy when my dad returned home. Ever since then I cherished my family more than ever. I found out how life can take away the most loved things. Ever since then we went out as a family more and bounded. My dad became even more happier and started enjoying life a little more as we all did knowing that the moments that are here right now will only last a little bit. Then become memories and slowly everything will fade away, not leaving a mark sometimes. We love each other unconditionally and always will and enjoy our lives as family with ups and downs as a whole.