A toy. Whose brand is most commonly found at Toys R-US. However, this toy is different, this toy stands at around six inches tall. Its color, also not your typical blue or pink toy, it is purple, and its meaning describes many moments in my life. A purple what? A purple Care Bear. The Purple Care Bear, also known as the Surprise Bear, was last seen in “The Land Without Feelings” in 2012 according to wikipedia.org/List_Of_Care_Bear_Characters. The toy’s meaning most specifically illuminates a time where I had a surprise, however, my surprise was life threatening, and learning from that experience I am trying to live my life through the positive surprises the Purple Care Bear holds instead of the negative experiences. Here is the story of when I realized I needed this change….
The day was Monday, April 8th, 2013. I sat quietly on the examination table, made for 4’11” adolescents, in anticipation to see why I’ve sounded like a 60 year-old chain smoker every time I spoke. The diagnosis was the croup. Which according to the Mayo Clinic, is an illness, with …show more content…
The nurses sat me down in a chair, and went into a cupboard to grab three plastic sticks, each with an orange cap. One of the sticks penetrated my leg, I still had not stopped coughing. There were four nurses surrounding me talking rapidly on the phone with the paramedics. EpiPen number two entered my thigh. The force of the EpiPen felt like the nurse’s boyfriend broke up with her twenty minutes ago. People would think two EpiPens would do the trick, wrong again. While on a gurney, EpiPen number three was inserted into my already abused leg while being placed in the ambulance. During the drive to Children’s Hospital, the coughing had dissipated, I was now able to take full breaths with a few coughs here and there. I had arrived to the hospital with a warm welcome from the nursing staff who I was very familiar
The day was Monday, April 8th, 2013. I sat quietly on the examination table, made for 4’11” adolescents, in anticipation to see why I’ve sounded like a 60 year-old chain smoker every time I spoke. The diagnosis was the croup. Which according to the Mayo Clinic, is an illness, with …show more content…
The nurses sat me down in a chair, and went into a cupboard to grab three plastic sticks, each with an orange cap. One of the sticks penetrated my leg, I still had not stopped coughing. There were four nurses surrounding me talking rapidly on the phone with the paramedics. EpiPen number two entered my thigh. The force of the EpiPen felt like the nurse’s boyfriend broke up with her twenty minutes ago. People would think two EpiPens would do the trick, wrong again. While on a gurney, EpiPen number three was inserted into my already abused leg while being placed in the ambulance. During the drive to Children’s Hospital, the coughing had dissipated, I was now able to take full breaths with a few coughs here and there. I had arrived to the hospital with a warm welcome from the nursing staff who I was very familiar