Personal Narrative Essay On Concussions

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I was wide awake when I had drove off a hill riding my four-wheeler ATV. I must had jumped off, stepping my right foot loose around the brake to jump. No vivid memory of the outcome, so much heat the sand was fire. I just felt my body slamming into the dirt with piles of rock, rolling down with another huge rock. Therefore, my memory isn’t very clear pretty sure I had my face cover the best I could. Finally, I had woken up staring at the ceiling of an ambulance. All I felt was my body and mind numb from the severe impact laying down with no memory, extreme pain, no emotions on my face. I had just woken up from a concussion, not one person could tell how long I was out. With something holding my neck in place and putting pressure around my head. Nothing could stop me, even though the pain was too much I started moving slowly enough to keep going. It took time for my body to recover resting is very important.
As I opened my eyes, felt my legs were still in place, my arms were fine, even all fingers and toes. I started to look around feeling my head heavy. Something was wrong, I knew must have black out, I just didn’t know how bad it truly was. I had felt ataxia I couldn’t speak, so when the EMT ask me if I wanted to go the hospital. It took me
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I had no memory of how it happened. Only that I must had jumped off and rolled down, if not I would’ve been dead. My injury to my head wasn’t as that bad, I was lucky that flap of skin was hanging off that the doctor glued it back instead of doing stitches. The pain I felt when the doctor press down to glue my skin back to my head was very cold. Still having widely pain on my ribs that I would lay to the side and put pressure to with a soft pillow. I try to remember what had happened in my mind, all I picture is lots of dirt. My vision being blocked by the sun, the heat making me thirty. The dirt tails are rough; first gear was all the power needed to ride

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