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Chapter 2 When I get up I see my nurse sitting there on the chair and I look around, my face gets sad realizing none of it was a nightmare. I throw my pillow at Brittany and she wakes up startled wondering what is wrong. I just wanted to talk to someone was all and I needed help to go to the bathroom. I sat there staring at her with fright as I lifted my covers off my body and saw my leg. I cried and Brittany came over to comfort me, it was the worst feeling of seeing my hopes and dreams of a dancer being crushed. I didn’t know what the use of anything was a anymore. After Brittany helped me go to the bathroom I hobbled back into bed and laid there the rest of my time. I did not want to talk to anyone and I definitely didn’t want to see my leg again.
I looked away and then heard as the door opened and saw my doctor standing there.
“You are good to go home if you have a in home nurse, you must have someone with you at all times and in about a week or two we can fit you for a prosthetic.”
“That is way to long, I hate all of this and I just want to leave”
That is when I saw my mom for the first time since the accident since she wasn’t allowed to
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Meyer I asked him what has been going on and what I have missed. Listening to him tell me that Mia is really good on pointe shoes and that another girl might be moving up a level hurt my heart. I couldn’t listen to him anymore so I told him I needed some rest and then he left and I laid there in my bed thinking and thinking for what felt like forever. I decided to just go to bed after though because all of that thinking was making me mad and if I get mad I need to throw something but I can’t even get out of bed to do so. When I got up the first thing I had to do was go to the bathroom. My mom wasn’t up and I wanted to be able to do this on my own. So I attempted to reach my wheelchair and as I did so I remember hitting the ground and waking up with my mom’s face super close to

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