Personal Narrative: My Experience At St. Vincent

anything after that. I didn’t even remember receiving the drug, the only reason I knew was because my mom had told me afterwards. That was the last procedure while I was in St. Vincent. For the first three days I wasn’t allowed to drink or eat anything. I had my medicine through my IV and I was hungry all the time. After those three days were over, I could then drink only clear liquids for three more days. After a full week in the hospital, I was put on a restricted diet, which continued for almost six months until I started taking remicade, which combatted the Crohn’s disease and the drug I still take intravenously to this day every seven weeks. A week and a half later from entering St. Vincent, I was released and allowed to return to school, which by this time I had two weeks worth of homework waiting for me, only allowed to carry up to seven pounds for fear of breaking open the stitches from my gallbladder surgery. My experience while in the hospital taught me that bad things will occur in life. In order to be successful, I must continue on when no one else would. When stuff is thrown my …show more content…
During Junior year I began to play football but two weeks into practices, I had to quit due to fracturing my back the year before in football. In November, I began swim practices. I was greatly excited for swim since I wasn’t able to swim the year before. By the end of swim season, I swam a 24.45 personal best for my fifty free, my favorite event. I was super excited and began to realize I could possibly obtain some scholarships for swimming at possibly a D2 college. In the fall and spring I deer hunt and turkey hunt. Deer hunting is my favorite activity by far. I got my love for deer hunting from my dad who taught me as a kid how to hunt. The reason I mainly hunt is for the love of the sport and to provide food for my family, rather than going to the supermarket and buying food with preservatives and growth hormones in