Life Changing Moment In My Life

This injury caused me to see the bigger picture and that killing myself now could have serious consequences in the future. This injury also forced me to evaluate my coping mechanisms and see that listening to some of my favorite songs is just as good as running a few miles for stress relief and has a much less painful result. This in jury has also helped me see that all things are possible through hard work. I was able to push physical therapy hard enough, in a healthy way, that I was able to complete winter guard my senior year and got to go to both prom and graduation without an assistance in the form of crutches or braces.

The year was 2015 and in my mind it was going to be one of the most pivotal moments in my life. I was turning 16, getting my driver’s license, inching closer toward adulthood, gaining my independence, and free from adult responsibilities and worries. What I did not know was that one catastrophic event would have such a devastating impact on my life.

I was thirteen, and I had just come home from a school softball game. My friend Dalton had invited my sister and I to come and swim at the neighborhood pond. My sister stayed home, but I got permission to go. After a while of swimming, Dalton looks at me claims that he’ll jump out of a tree near the bank if I jump out. Of course, I accepted my friend’s little dare and climbed into the tree, focusing on the seven-foot-deep drop-off off of the bank. Regrettably, I didn’t jump far enough. My right leg landed in the drop-off, but my left leg hit the clay, which caused all of my weight to shift to my left foot. I felt an immense pain in my ankle and started screaming while crawling over to the bank as Dalton ran to get my mom. After I finally made it to the emergency room, I found that I had broken my fibula at an upward slant, which caused the upper part of the bone to slam down into my ankle.I had completely blown out every ligament and tendon on the left side of my ankle. I had to have a plate and four screws implanted into my fibula along with the surgical repair of all of my ligaments and tendons. The entire ordeal left me extremely interested in the human body, and this interest was heightened when I had to get my appendix removed a few months later and again when I took Anatomy and

At the age of sixteen towards the end of my sophomore year I suffered a fifth metatarsal fracture. At first I underestimated this injury and saw it as a minor setback and thought I would be ready to return to my sport in no time.

In the past five years, I have overcome many obstacles. Thankfully those struggles made me who I am today, and while I still have many improvements to make, I am content with the direction my life is going. With a combination of my experiences, my education,

In time though I was glad that I got injured. This injury help shapes me into being a determined person and to go after what I want in everything I do.

Two years ago I was at the peak of my soccer career and fractured my tibia while in a game. Fracturing my leg meant that I would be out of all physical activity for the next 12 weeks. I was stuck in a wheelchair with nothing to do but think of how all of my friends and teammates were running around having a good time while I was unable to do anything at all.

Some people fracture a bone in their body; some break the same bone twice. A few rupture a bone from slipping on a rug. I happen to be one of the very few for whom both of these scenarios are true. Between the ages of five and seven, my parents enrolled me in a gymnastics class because I loved to tumble and twirl. I knew how to execute everything a little gymnast aimed for: a cartwheel, a handstand, and splits. I always tested my limits with the dream of getting to the Olympics. So, as any athlete, I practiced outside of the gym. However, a normal practice would turn out to crush my dream of winning the gold. Outside at my aunt's house, my cousins and I decided to practice what we learned in the class that week. I had diligently watched the older kids master a back handspring so I thought that I could tackle the challenge. All I remember is falling backwards, thinking I had stuck the landing. However, lying on the floor, I realized that my arm appeared abnormal and shooting pains came from all angles. I had broken my arm for the first time.

The Event that has impacted me the most happened in late 2014,i was 15 at the time for me it was one of the most memorable events that has happened to me. I was in a Longboarding accident that caused me to go into a two week coma. It happened when i was still living in Oklahoma. After this happened, i’ve learned not to be so careless and i should be more aware of what my surroundings are. I remember that my friends and i were walking around a neighborhood looking for hills to ride down on,we usually did this for about an hour or so. It really was the perfect weather to go Longboarding it was a cool November winter day about 29 degrees. We were still walking until we found this hill in the neighborhood at the time i remember not being so big.

During the swim season of my sophomore year I was at the peak of my swimming career. I was swimming great times and had a very successful season. Prior to the regional swim meet I was qualified and all I had to do was swim my qualifying times to advance to the 1A/2A state swim meet. Exactly one week before the regional meet I broke my foot in two places. I was heartbroken because for a swimmer this is what you train for all year long. I felt like all my hard work and hours in the pool were for nothing. I immediately began physical therapy and told my parents I wanted to try and swim the following Saturday at regionals. My foot was not in a cast, but in a boot. My physical therapist even told me there was no way I would be able to swim at regionals.

Then came my 9th grade year I was so excited to start high school. Football was going great and I was making new friends. At practice one afternoon I broke my right middle finger and when I say broke it was mangled requiring surgery with pins and a cast. This happened 6 weeks before basketball started, so in a cast I did everything

Due to my injury, I don’t hold my arm as straight as most people. Throughout elementary school and the beginning of middle school, I was bullied for the way I looked. At the end of middle school I stated gaining confidence in myself. I began standing up to bullies instead of letting them hurt me. I learned to not let what others said get in the way of how I thought about myself. Now in high school, I am able to proudly tell others about my injury and all that I have overcome. My injury helped me establish the confidence I will need throughout life. Without my injury, I might not have established such great confidence in myself.

It was one life-changing experience I was seven years old when I became grateful for the things that I had. I remember packing for this big trip my parents were planning for a year now. I precisely recall my mother telling me to go through my closet and pick clothes I did not use to give away, I didn't know why, but I didn't ask, I just did it. As the day got closer I remember my parents had accumulated a great amount of things to give away. I quite didn't understand why they were gathering so many things and for what reason.

A life-changing event is not something to be taken lightly. Throughout our lives, we encounter many obstacles and changes, some of which bring us joy and excitement, others of which may be hard for us to handle. When I look back on my relatively short life, it may, at first, be hard for me to think of an event that has truly molded and shaped the person that I am today. I have encountered several changes, but at the time, they felt like mere speed bumps along my path. Looking back now, it is easy for me to see that these changes were not by chance, but were placed in my path to form the person that I am today.

There are many different life changing events that can change your life. Sometimes things happen in people’s life and they can’t do anything about it. Changes can be good and sometimes it can be a terrible thing that results in a positive turn in one’s life. Change is a part of life that no one looks forward to. Everyone’s life changes at some point. Life is full of many unexpected challenges that will be thrown in your face at any place and any time. People learn and grow from every experience that they go through in life. Some of the events that have changed my life was losing my grandmother, graduation, and going to college. Changes come almost every day in my life.