Linda Simoneaux

Size Does Not Mean Anything One of the most important people in a child’s life is their grandmother. Linda Simoneaux is the name of my grandmother. She may only stand 5 feet tall; however, this compassionate sixty-five-year-old woman has the biggest heart of anyone I have ever known. Linda’s lightly wrinkled face unfolds some of her sadness, but most of the lines on her face shows that she is usually smiling. She was born on February 22, 1950 in a two bedroom home located in Rita, Louisiana, where she is still living today. Her parents are Wilbur, a Veteran who served in World War II, and Dorothy Larousse, who was a stay at home mom. She was the middle child with an older brother, Randy, and a younger sister, Deborah. Linda was married twice,

Mrs. Simoneaux is a very sociable person; she loves to talk with people and make them laugh. Her family and friends know they can call her anytime, night or day, and she will be there no matter what. Linda is known as a woman who is loyal, supportive, and loving not only to her family, but also to her friends. Similar to modern-day cell phone, this admiring mother, grandmother, and friend maintains a great deal of energy and stays closely connected to others. It’s a weird combination, but if someone who knows Linda would read this they would understand. Not only does her personality traits compare to a cell phone, but so does her physical traits. Linda’s hair is very shiny and chic, just as a phone screen shines and stylish just as the iphone6. Her hair is a sliver-greyish with white and black similar to the different color backs people can get for the iphone. Someone who just purchases a phone, usually the background is a picture of the beach with beautiful blue water resembling the color of her eyes. She has a very loud voice as if someone was talking on speaker. She is always charged up and has a lot of energy where she is ready to do anything and everything, just

On April 10, 2013, she was at the Surgery Clinic in Houma, Louisiana to find out the test results for a strange lump she found on her breast. When the nurse walked into the room, Linda’s heart sunk from being so nervous and scared about the results. The nurse said, “I have bad, but good new. It happens to be stage two breast cancer, but it is treatable.” The first two words that came to her head was “Thank God!” She knew that she would do anything and everything she had to do to get through it. The battle that she never thought she would have to face began the following week. Linda had to have a radical mastectomy to remove the golf ball sized lump. She was truly blessed that she was one who was never sick after having sixteen chemotherapy treatments. The treatments did cause her to lose her hair and become more tired than normal, but Linda was never going to give up. Radiation was the next step that she had to overcome, which was done every day for five weeks. The radiation treatments caused her to be weak and very tired. She was always cooking before the cancer but she became unable to maintain enough energy to even cook during the treatments. Through all the tiredness, tears shed, and pain, she kept pushing herself and decided that giving up was not an option. My grandmother lives by the motto, “With Faith, Family, and Friends you can