One in a Million Hi, I’m Ross Green. When I was 7, something tremendous happened. It changed my life forever. I am lucky for what I have. Family and friends. Although I will be in a wheelchair the rest of my life, I’m lucky to still be living after what happened. Here’s the story. “Wanna come with me?” Mom asked, “I’m going to the grocery store.¨ It was easter morning. My mom was going to the grocery store to get some orange juice that she forgot yesterday. I mean really, you can’t have easter without orange juice! ¨ Sure. I’ll go.” I was bored. I had already collected my easter eggs so why not? I regret this answer and I will forever. We went to Whole Foods Market, a block from our house. We got my very favorite brand. Simply Orange, …show more content…
Suddenly I forgot. I forgot who I was with. I forgot what I was doing. I forgot where I was. I didn 't know what day it was. All I could think about is the pain I was in. I saw my mom. Her face was red and tears rushed out of her eyes. That made me hurt even more. People were pulling me out of the car carefully, trying not to hurt my unknown broken bones. At least this is what the doctors told me. They brought me into the ambulance. I was unconscious to its max level. I 'm not sure what happened next. I spaced out, my head hurt, and my ears were ringing. I went into the emergency room. Many people were crowding around me. They were rushing and talking fast. They pushed me to the X ray room, laying me on a flat table with a body scanner up above me. I was scared I didn 't know what was going on, unconscious. I pass out. Part 2 I woke up, laying in a bed that wasn 't mine. I was tired as I had ever been. I was in the hospital. I was not sure how long I had been sleeping or passed out. My mom was waiting for me to wake up. Her eyes were red and splotchy. “Twenty-One Hours.” Mom said, “You passed out for twenty one hours. You had mageri surgery.” “What?!” I couldn 't believe what my mom was telling me. I sat up. Something was wrong. Very wrong. I couldn 't feel my legs. I couldn 't move my legs. I was scared. I didn’t know what to do. When I was out I didn’t know what was happening. It felt like I was going through a tunnel. I
We started speeding down the road to meet the ambulance. Upon meeting them I was rushed to Wilcox Memorial Hospital, bumping my dad from the operating room right before he his knee surgery. I wasn't suspected to make it, as I had lost seventy percent of my blood. But somehow, with the help of God, I underwent several surgeries and within the next few days I was stabilized and discharged from the hospital.
So much pain, so much blood. Everything was fuzzy, people looked like splotches blocking my vision. The yelling. It’s getting louder. I look for light, but only darkness is here now. There. Under the door. I try my hardest to lift the fallen door, but a shooting pain propels up my leg so I stop. “
I woke up startled and didn’t know where I was. I had an IV in my arm and my parents were staring at me. The doctor came in
I woke up looking around not knowing what was going on. I looked around realizing that I was in an unknown bed. Panicking at first I tried to find my bearings, but I calmed down quickly as I watched my mother walk into the room.
I couldn't believe what was happening. My dad turns to the doctor and says "What do you mean ICU?" That's when she tells us I have bleeding in my brain and that I can't eat or drink and need an IV right away. I'm still so mad at my dad to this day because he promised me I wouldn't need an IV. After they get the needle in, they put a bunch of medicine into me and said that it would make me a little weird. "A little weird" wasn't even close to what it did to me. I thought I was going to have to get moved in a mental hospital after taking that medicine. I couldn't spell or talk and when I did talk nothing I said made sense. People were constantly texting me and I didn't know what I was typing so everyone responded with "what is wrong with you?" Honestly at this point I had no idea. My boyfriend was still here and was laughing at me because of how crazy I sounded but I was honestly scared and thought I was going to be this way forever.
When I regained consciousness, I tried to open my eyes to check my surroundings. However, being so long in darkness, I could hardly see anything. By the stench and the "beep... beep... beep..." sound around me, I knew where I was. A while later, my eyes got used to the bright light and could see much more clearly. The first thing I saw was a doctor looking into my eyes very closely. When I moaned at him, he backed up and smiled. " You will be fine. Just a little painful; doesn't bother too much," he said. Then he turned to my mother, and they chatted for a while. Before he left the room, he turned to me again, "Rest some more." He smiled again and closed the door. His smile was so warm, but not as warm as my mother's. My mother walked up to me, and she pulled a chair and sat down. I was too afraid to look into her eyes; she would be so disappointed because I crashed the brand new car. It seemed like my head weighted 20 kilograms, and I could not pull it up. I
One night after writing a history paper, I was so tired I went to bed without eating. Around two in the morning I woke up scared for my life. My clothes were soaked with sweat, my head was spinning, my whole body was shaking, and I knew my blood sugar was horribly low. Getting out of bed, I went to my fridge to get something to eat. The next thing I know, I wake up in a hospital bed with both of my parents looking at me. I had been informed that I slipped into a coma for a day and I was lucky to be alive. My heart had also stopped beating when they found me. My only thoughts were that I had missed a day of classes.
My heart was throbbing, heavily and I could feel my body shutting down, my vision was getting hazy. And then suddenly I heard the sirens of the ambulance and two paramedics got down to our rescue as I fell unconscious.
When I woke up, I had no idea where I was, until seconds later when I realized almost everything in the room was white. My hair was pulled out of my bun and I was wearing a patient's gown. There was a lady in baby blue shirt with little snoopy dogs on it leaning over the bed with a clipboard in her left hand, and a pen in her right. The instant I moved my head to look around, I regretted it and let my head flop back down, then regretted that even more. My whole right side of my body felt like it was being burned and stabbed right there on the spot. I moaned and I heard my mom's voice, just a little too
I closed my eyes real quick and opened them and I was in the hospital. All my friends and family were their surrounding me. When I looked down I had broken both of my legs when I was hit by the car.
I was crying, everyone was rushing toward me. My head really hurt, I saw blood dripping down my hair, I was so confused. Im guessing you want to hear the story. It all started on a nice sunny calm day. I was at my farm. I was only 6 years old at the time and Harlyn was 10 years old. It was Leena, Lydia, Harlyn, me, and Lydia's friend(Ellie).
Later that night, I sat on my couch and studied for my upcoming quiz. While in the midst of reading a sentence, a sharp pain encompassed my spine and my head started shaking uncontrollably. I screamed for my mom and dad, telling them that I couldn’t stop my head from moving. Filled with concern, they rushed me to the emergency room.
Everyone quickly turned their heads as soon as they heard the agonizing scream of pain. The scream was long and high pitched and it spread through the ears of everyone within distance. In confusion, they all ran in the direction of the scream, huddling around a blonde haired girl with her hands wrapped around her knee. There were oodles of whispers about what was happening, but nobody had a complete grasp on the situation. Dazed and dismayed, I was the girl in the purple leggings and everyone was staring at me wondering why I was lying in the sand screaming and crying. Soon, adults and doctors were hovering me asking questions that I just couldn’t answer. I wasn’t aware of how it happened, I only knew how excruciating my pain was. My kneecap was sticking out of the side of my right leg and due to that, I felt overwhelmed and panicked. My eyes couldn’t move from my knee despite how unbearable it was to lay my eyes on. I never imagined I would have knee problems again after already having 2 surgeries on my left knee. The feeling was so devastating, I have injured myself once again and the pain was not yet over.
I remember feeling dazed walking into the hospital; everything was a blur yet seemed to happen in slow motion. And the smell. It was overwhelming and stale. I was detached, just going through the motions: walk here, get wristband, sit, stay, wait. The waiting was the worst part. My mind began to spin. Worrying, and waiting, and contemplating, and waiting and waiting… My fingers began to restlessly tap, dancing out the rhythm of my steps over and over. I fell into a daze, nothing processing except
As I slowly opened my eyes and drew in a breath, I started to realize where I was, I didn’t quite remember how I got there but I know that somehow I ended up in a hospital. There was a nurse in there who suddenly let out a gasp. Odd I thought, she quickly rushed out of the room and in what felt like an hour but really was a minute, came back with my parents and a doctor. My mom was sobbing and ran over to embrace me in a huge hug. After giving my mom and I a minute, the doctor walked over to me and started to explain what happened.