Personal Narrative: My Blood Pressure

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I felt a sharp pain, suddenly stopped, and fell to the ground. I had to be carried off the field. I didn’t even get hit by anything, something just felt like it snapped. There was an ice-pack on my leg, slowly freezing it until I couldn’t feel it anymore. Right after the game finished, we went straight to the ER.
There we waited, and waited, and waited. It felt like forever until we actually got to see a doctor. They examined me. Took x-rays. My temperature. My blood-pressure. Nothing was wrong. Except for the pain. No broken bones. No fever. Normal blood-pressure. They gave me morphine of course to help with the pain, the excruciating pain. That didn’t help much. The doctors were inept at finding what was wrong. So, we went home, with a brace

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