Personal Essay : How Did I Get In A Tree

"I put my needle sticking it through and through and over and over laying the lacerated parts together as nice as I could with my hands."

sizes. He brought the machete down again in a different spot, higher up on the

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 pushed myself to my hands and knees. I glanced over my shoulder, and let out a hiccupping moan of

I didn't stop screaming until whatever was climbing me hovered in front of my face. Again, a silvery-blue creature in the shape of a snake was poised in a striking position inches from my nose. Light began to pour through the shape like a disco ball. The snake thing drew back and I squeezed my eyes shut, waiting for a strike in the face.

I fell. This felt like I didn’t have a wrist. But I got back up really carefully and went up to the lounge to my dad and sister. Ah, Ah, Dad I think I broke my wrist. No you didn’t. It was swelling up, It hurt so bad I couldn’t even believe this was happening.

I awoke to a cacophony of screams, both of excitement and of pain. I jolted up quickly, unable to control my own muscles or vocal chords, as if a spectre was holding me back with airy fingers of death.

This was then measured and 85 mm was found to be the appropriate length. The core was cut for the sliding screw without complication using a pre-set reamor set at 85 mm. The tap was then used to tap the way for the proximal screw and an 85 mm sliding screw was inserted across the fracture sight into the head and neck without complication. A four hole 135 degree side plate was then attached. We slid it over the depwheeze sliding screw and attached it to the proximal femur using a lommen turkey claw clamp. With the fixation in place AP and lateral fluoroscopic images throughout the fracture sight and hardware position confirmed good reduction and good placement of the hardware. At this point the side plate was then secured to the proximal femur using the 3-2 drill bit to drill a hole measuring the approximate length with the depth gauge and placing 4-5 cortical screws of the appropriate length without complication. At this point the compression screw was inserted. All traction was left off and the compression screw was tightened impacting the fracture nicely. All screws were then tightened with the screwdriver. The lommen was removed, as was all hardware. Multiple views in the AP and lateral plains of the fracture

Great I've been tied upside down to a tree ,my stuff is by the fire, and there's a pack of dogs sleeping by the trunk. Good thing there's a dagger in my boot or else I would probably be here forever. All i had to do was reach it without making too much noise.

Next, they put me in a different room upstairs to take some x-rays, they figured out that I had 2 fractures (so practically broken!) They put an enormous cast on my arm that went all the way down to my elbow and I had to wear that for 2 weeks or something like that. After a while of having it on, my arm got numb and I couldn’t feel my hand! When we got traveled back after the 2 weeks they gave me another cast. The difference was that it was smaller and only went down to my wrist also my 2 fingers (pinky and ring) were at a 90 degree angle. They told me “Wear that one for another

I attempted to wiggle my fingers, the pain throbbed worse than before. "No it hurts." I whined, the pain brought tears to my eyes. My hand was swollen and badly bruised.

As the ghost wrestled with you in the dirt, it broke your elbow as if it were a twig.

“It’s clearly broken. It probably was a bad sprain, but with the pressure of the cuff, it made it into a broken wrist. I’m going to have to put this in a cast, but I need all my

It was gone- my arm. Torn right off where the humorous met the clavicle. Behind their constant looks of pity and commiseration, I could tell the doctors were disgusted. And despite my protests, Kevin was arrested upon my cousins urging.

On the small rickety wood path looking for some pine needles which were not hard to find at this time of the year because they are a bright orange needles were laying against the bright green leaves and grass of the woods. I found quite a few before it was night and there was just one more branch that I saw so I went to go cut if off the branch of the tree knowing I was breaking the rules of the park because it was attached to a living tree but it was without my Grandpa looking “CRACK” the sound of the axe hitting the branch “CRACK” again and all of a sudden I feel a sharp pain in my