Example Of A Narrative Essay On Your Community College

Then lo and behold my surgery occurred on July 22, 2015. It was a grueling 6-hour long surgery. I spent a week in the hospital and I was in tremendous pain for weeks afterwards. I was not able to enjoy my summer like everyone else, as I was stuck in bed for the entire time. But guess what. My back was straight. It was over. No more brace. No more looking crooked and feeling self-conscious about it. My mind was finally free.

I tried every kind of PT for over a year. They put me on lyrica 300mg daily, and then I already used 1800mg of ibubrofen, 300mg tramadol, 10mg benzodiapen, 2g of xanax DAILY. I was so hopeless that two times I almost made suicide so don't laugh over my recovery cause I really went trough hell.

Just two weeks after birth, I had my first surgery. Being that I was a newborn, recovery was very difficult and prolonged. My health complications

My stomach was growling like crazy because I was not allowed to eat since 12 am that morning. Soon enough, I heard the nurse say “Jenna Ottman,” and my heart felt like it just might pound out of my chest. What if they can’t fix it, what if I wake up during surgery, what if I can’t play sports again? All these questions were rumbling through my mind as I blocked out all the words the doctor was saying to me. The three hour surgery seemed like a breeze to me because I was under sedation the entire time. However, when the anesthetic wore off that night, I was in a world of pain. I had to undergo one full week of bed rest. It consisted of lots of netflix, physical therapy, and visits from friends. I had a long road ahead of me, but every day got me closer to

I started with walking. After an hour, it was to great shock, that I found my lower back in so much discomfort that it was necessary to stop and sit down. Two weeks later I went for the same walk and the same result. A later MRI showed a significant disc bulge causing an annular tear in the lower back. In the following months I found that the lower back pain prevents me from enjoying long walks, runs over three miles, and really any other extended physical activity that would simply just help me clear my head and feel better about all that has happened. The setbacks would continue. On May 31st, I had arthroscopic surgery on the right wrist in an effort to reduce pain and increase the much-lost range of motion experienced. However, what resulted from a complication was, the loss of motion of the ring and pinky finger due to a torn tendon in the right hand. I had a third surgery June 27th to try and correct this. It’s too early to tell but, as I type this only with my left hand, my right experiences excruciating, scar-tissue related nerve pain. To further try to reduce pain, a fourth surgery that would entail shortening the ulna bone is an option. But the truth of the matter is, with more surgery comes more risk. Considering my body and mind

I have talked to so many people with chronic back pain and have taken care of many patients after back surgery. I never thought that I would become one of those people. Like many of you, I tried everything from physical therapy to muscle relaxers. They all helped temporarily, but nothing took the pain completely away. Here is my story and how I overcame my back pain. One night after a rigorous weight training workout I went to bed with a little soreness, but nothing I hadn't felt before. That morning I woke up and tried to get out of bed, but my back was so tight I could hardly move. It soon progressed to pain that ran down my buttock and partially down my leg. This went on for about three months and I decided to go to an orthopedic surgeon

The sun hadn’t even come up before I was under the knife. The date was August 23rd, 2013, and I was at Shriner’s Hospital in Portland, Oregon. Just a couple months before, I was diagnosed with an aggressively worsening case of idiopathic scoliosis: something one would consider life-shattering for anyone. While I knew major spine surgery would always impact my life to some extent, I had no way to predict how I would continue to learn from it years down the road.

Upon entering my freshman year of high school the pain in my back was an everyday issue and kept me from participating in basketball and other school event. Some days I would wake up in such an amount of pain I wouldn’t be able to go to school. During November my mom decided to take me to Shriner 's in Lexington. They took some x-rays and a CT scan and it turns out the once little spot had grew to the point where it had broken through back to where it was pushing upon my nerves in my spine. I can still remember sitting in the room hearing them explain to me and I

Running a 14-week sports program (once a week), for Belvoir children. This developed and furthered my interests with helping children in physical way rather than just cognitive. Noticing improvement in 6 months from tutoring a friends’ daughter’s younger child with her homework; this was a very uplifting and gave me more determination to teach others.

The next year, having my spine fused was my only hope of having a healthy

Back at home, I had to stay inside the house and not do any physical activity which was difficult to cope with because I felt useless. My incisions were still healing at the time so I

Perhaps the worst side-effect of this whole ordeal was how grueling very day tasks had become. Getting out of cars now took minutes instead of seconds. My daily routine had changed from “Wake up, shower, get dressed, go to school.” to “Wake up, put plastic bag over cast, hop to shower, take shower on one

Throughout my educational experience, I have endured countless hardships that made progress difficult at times. Although it was a struggle through my strong dedication to education, I have also earned a list of achievements for my hard work. These experiences from, failing two of my English classes, to excelling tremendously in mathematics, have molded me into the type of student I am today. I am a student with a growth mindset and, an optimistic outlook on education and, the bright future ahead. I now understand the impact that a positive mindset can have on your future. I am definitely proud of the student I have become. I feel like my journey is unique, but is also very relatable.

It was my first day of Physical Therapy I was at Summit Orthopedics in Vadnais Heights, and I smelt the same things as I did the time I came the first time to OrthoQuick. It was the smell of hand sanitizer and elder people. What I saw was the elder people waiting for their name to be called to go back with their physical therapist. My physical therapist name was Derek. He brought me back to a room that was no bigger than an average observation room. We started physical therapy by engaging my quad and then releasing it. The part that I was surprised by the most is the electrical stimulation. They put patch on each side of my quad and connect wires to the patches, and it felt like my quad was vibrating and tingling on a beat.

It felt like a long process, but that’s only because of how many places it took to actually figure out what was happening. The first thought we had was to take me to the chiropractor. He wasn’t able to fix my back pain, but he was the first one to tell me what I had, Scoliosis. At the time, I didn’t really know what scoliosis was, so I was ok with having it. We were surprised we hadn’t noticed it sooner considering my scapula prominence on the right side. On May 9th, I went to see a doctor about my scoliosis. My first spine x-ray was taken that day. My mom and I waited anxiously in the room while we waited to hear about my x-rays. The doctor said that the curve was only about 30 degrees, and I’d probably end up wearing a brace. He then referred us to St. Cloud Orthopedics. Wearing a brace didn’t sound too bad, so it didn’t really feel like there was anything to be worried about. I just wanted my back pain to go away. This had all happened in about a week, but my journey was far from over.