Daniela Sånchez Santana 5ª

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Solidarity is one of the most important and essential human values. It is that feeling that makes you want to help others with no intention of receiving something in return. Solidarity is a mutual help that must exist among people, not because they know each other or are friends, but simply because we all have a duty to help others. Sickness does not have to separate us from the people. On the contrary, we must give them a hand and help them overcome this difficult moment they have to live.
Two years ago my grandparents were very sick as they both had cancer. My grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer and my grandpa had been undergoing chemotherapy for blood cancer for 6 years. My brother and I saw them very depressed. It was expected because both were very sick. The treatments that they received were very strong and they felt  bad. The whole family was very worried. We asked ourselves, what can we do? As they were sick, we thought that beingin the hospital could make them worse... Nevertheless, we knew that our duty was to be there accompanying them and giving them a han; in good times and in bad ones, they were always with us. After the surgery, my grandmother began to improve little by little, but for my grandfather's illness there was no treatment; he was a terminal patient. It means that the disease was going to lead him to death.
Since we were always with him, we realized that in spite of his illness he enjoyed our company ,

and that we should all take care of him every day of life that he had left. We wanted to do something that would make him happy, so my cousin and I did singing and dancing shows; even when he got sicker and was hospitalized, we were there telling him "no matter how you are, we are your family and here we are."

That's how it was until he died.

Some people, because of their illness were abandoned by their family and friends. However, we must be in solidarity with them because a disease does not have to separate us from our families, on the contrary, we must give a hand and help them overcome this difficult moment that they have to live.
To leave a sick person is to treat him as if he were already dead.
"Many times sick people do not wait for you to tell them something, they simply wait for you to accompany them and not to consider them dead before they die."