This past weekend my uncle Dave passed away. It was really hard on my whole family, especially my grandma. She lives in a big house out in Yucipa and has 5 acres and has horses and my unlce Dave lived with her and really helped her keep up the ranch. Now that he is gone she is all alone in that big house with a ton of work that has to be done. My whole family has really stepped up and tried to help but it has been really hard to adjust. But back to my unlce. He was born with a rare disease, which i can't ever remember the name, but it causes you to have too much iron in your body which then attacks your organs. It can also affect the brain and it caused him to be very short. My dad and other uncle Dan, Dave's brothers, towered over him. They are both about 6ft tall and he was only about 5'2". They doctors didn't know what he had until recently when he got sick and they looked more into his disease.. It was hard for him growing up but he dealt with it. The thing that is a miracle is that he died at age 47 but the life expectancy for a person with that disease is only in their twenties. The doctors said it had a lot to do with where he lived. I never thought that where you lived could effect you that much. They said sense they lived way out there and they were sort of by themselves it helped him. It is also colder out there which kept disease away which was good because he had a weak immune system. This was a very hard weekend but it got me thinking about how living somewhere could truely have a great impact on your life like it did on his. Just a thought.