Personal Narrative: My Experience With Disabilities

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Everyone has experienced some sort of atrocious pain in their lives. At one point in my life I did not believe I will ever walk again. A troubling life changing event occurred when I was just fourteen years old. Every evil thought was occurring in my head all at once. “You won’t walk anymore”, “You won’t heal”, “Time can’t change this”, all thoughts that were going through my mind while being in a wheelchair. Then the thought comes “Why were you in a wheelchair” The tragedy that force me into a wheelchair is snapping my left leg in half. The tragedy was truly horrific. My leg was broken in 8th grade. In fact, the injury actually happened at school. I was scheduled to be in gym class, so I went to the gym and the gym teacher instructed we go outside and run a mile …show more content…
Wanting to show off my speed I ran my heart out. I did not make it to first place but I did finish in the top three. Now I start feeling a little tired then I see my fellow classmates start playing football then they call me over to play. You know I didn’t want to be that one kid to be called an odd ball or a loner, so I join them. I …show more content…
I was dosed with morphine over and over again it did not ease the pain it just made me feel lighter than before but the aching pain never stop. If I even tried to move my leg the pain would start beyond measures. At that moment I asked my mother am “I going to be alright?”, then she stated “You are going to be just fine”. From then on my hope of becoming well again just became one step closer. As I was feeling delusional on morphine the doctor stepped in the room stating that I will need to be under X-ray examination. Then when they proceed to take me to examination room, I begin to get X-Rayed then they stated while I was being transported out of the room that my leg was broken in two places. My tibia bone and fibula bone were both

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