Personal Narrative Essay : A Personal Experience

It was a normal day in New York city. I was playing basketball with my friends in the park. When I went up for a dunk, and I got fouled and flipped around and snapped my leg. My friends were saying “get some help now.” While was setting down on the floor crying, holding my leg. When my friends called the ambulance for help.

I was ten, the most terrifying event I had been through was riding the little dragon roller coaster at the fair, but that night changed it all. The fear that started in my head spread like wildfire to the rest of my body from the tips of my fingers to the bottoms of my toes. My heart was racing so fast that it could have beat Usain Bolt in a 100m dash. Stop, drop and roll, three steps that should have come naturally, but instead I froze, looked down at my yellow and black checkered flannel in complete terror, fearing for my life.

It was about 2 hours before we had to leave and I kept going over the jump on that little path and jumped higher and higher every time. Finally one time I drive over to the group by the fire and told my dad to watch me. My plan was to go really fast and get really big air. I went down the path like always. All of the sudden I was in midair thinking “How did I get myself into this.” I felt scared because I was looking at the ground and wasn’t close to landing. I came crashing down on the right front tire and somehow landed back on all four wheels but not before hitting my face on the front rack of the four wheeler. After I landed I didn’t really realize how close I was to going to the hospital and having really bad injuries. I rode back over to my dad and he had the most scared look on his face. I said “Did you see how high I got?!” He looked at me and said, “Don’t ever do that again.” I laughed and asked why. He said, “If mom was here you wouldn’t get back on the four wheeler because you almost just died.” I looked over at the rest of the group and they all shook their heads in agreement with my dad. I was too scared to ever jump that jump ever again. After that big event we stayed for another hour and a half. We packed up and headed home. I was to wore out and I slept all the way home. Once we got home the people that we picked up in the beginning of the day came to our house for chilli that my mom made. At dinner we talked about what we liked and what was the most fun and how I almost died. My mom’s response was, “Good thing I wasn’t there you wouldn’t have gotten back on the four wheeler.” After dinner the other family left with their four wheeler and I went to bed because I was to beat. The

I had always assumed that my legs were strong and that I had decent muscle control, however, this thought was proven wrong at the beginning of my junior year in high school due to a detrimental injury. It was the first game of fall league for basketball, and within the first five minutes I had succumbed to an injury. Tearing my ACL and Meniscus has taught me to continue improving on my strength, not let this one injury keep me down, and to keep a positive mindset.

Before we could start riding, my Mom and Dad had to to put helmets on. My brother and I had to as well, but we also had to wear these plastic vests too. My Dad said that on the trail he will be riding in front, I’ll be behind him and behind me would be my brother then my Mom. The rule was that all riders had to be 10 feet apart while driving, so that you don’t crash into each other. Eventually, we all started riding. Right away, we had to ride down a steep and bumpy hill. I was a little nervous at first, but so far everything was very fun. There were a lot of mud puddles that smelt really bad. Every mud puddle I saw I went through fast. About half way through the ride, my ATV got stuck in a mud puddle. It didn’t look deep like all of the other ones, so I just drove through it without thinking. Once I got stuck, I immediately jumped out of the ATV. My parents all stopped and my Dad went on the stuck ATV. He eventually drove it out and It was very

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We went back to the dance and I sat on the bleachers, I patiently waited for the concert to end. Afterwards we went to the emergency room to see if I had done something to my ankle. They did an x-ray and the results were that I had fractured my fibula and broken my growth plate. They put a boot on me and gave me some crutches. The next day we went to the bone and joint clinic in Columbia. They did another x-ray and we waited for the results. The doctor, with the results, came in the room to tell us. He said they might just have to pop the bones back into place. They also said they could tell me more if they did a CT scan so they did one of them and said they would call us the next day and give us the better results.

On our way up the mountain, we saw lots of Toucans and monkeys. It was a very bumpy ride. Sometimes the mountain got so steep that I thought we were going to fall backwards. Once we reached the top we got out. The workers helped us put on the harnesses. The woman who worked there jumped on the zip line and went down first so she could be the catcher at the bottom. None of us wanted to go, it looks way to scary. So my dad made Gage go first, he was assisted by another worker as he was too little to go alone. Once we all new that Gage made it safely we did rock paper scissors to see who went next. Ian went and then I went and then my dad went. There were 4 lines, at first we were only going 60 miles per hour, by the time we were on the last one we got up to speeds of 90 miles per hour, the length of the lines was 3 miles. The wind on my face and body actually hurt and it was hard to breath at

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This text is a transcript of a conversation between to female friends (Andrea and Barbara). The transcript is about Andrea’s rash and she confides in Barbara about the situation.

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It was around 1 a.m and the doctors came in there to put me under. They put the iv in and my eyes were shaking really bad. Next thing you know I was out cold for about 30 minutes. I woke up at about 1:30 a.m and everything was spinning. Then I saw three of everything. They asked me if I wanted to see my mom and Clayton. I said yes. I was talking really funny I guess. According to Clayton I was rambling about how I was gonna hit people with my cast.

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