Example Of A Narrative Essay On A Disability

It began as a normal day for me, a volunteer, at Northside Hospital. I delivered the food orders, filled the supply room, and took calls with the nurse at the nurses station, but towards the end of my shift, I was instructed to take a patient downstairs on my way out. The burn from pushing the wheelchair traveled up my arm; it felt as if something was holding the wheelchair back as I propelled the wheelchair into the elevator. Upon entering the elevator, a spurt of blood came flying at my face, realization hitting me like a brick when I spotted the wheels pushing onto the catheter. Suddenly, we were descending in the elevator, and blood came flowing out of the patient’s arm. I worked fast and used my ungloved hands to cover the open wound of the patient, forgetting to press the emergency button located in the elevator. When we reached the bottom, a surge of doctors saw the scene before them, pushing me aside and working fast to secure the patient and her arm. I stood outside the elevator, hands and face covered in blood. …show more content…
She, unlike Lengel, appreciated the steps that I took. I received a slap on the wrist for forgetting to put on gloves in a high risk situation, but commended for working fast to stop the risk of blood loss. Sammy, like me, was high on adrenaline when quitting his job, although, conversely, later regretted his decision knowing “how hard the world was going to be” (Updike 32). Sammy was naive, not because he quit his job, but because he thought he quit it because of the girls. He did not realize that he quit because he might have been looking for a change in pace of his seemingly mundane