Personal Narrative: My Traumas In My Life

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I’ve had plenty of injuries in my life time but I never thought it would get this bad twice. Not even a year ago I had ACL reconstruction. It was September 17, the day everything first crumbled. My family and I went into that surgery thinking everything was going to be fine and 6 months later I would be back to playing soccer and everything would be normal. Sadly this is not how it went. Instead I came out of surgery with not only a new ACL but also retrograde and anterograde amnesia. I could not remember anything from May to September or even day to day for a while. I would wake up every time having an anxiety attack and not knowing where I am or why. The big time gap I don’t remember is a black hole to me. The doctors couldn’t even tell my

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