Personal Narrative: The Pain

There was snow on the ground, but the sun was still shining and melting the snow. Recently, my dad had been feeling soreness in his arms and legs, but he didn’t think anything of it, just that maybe he need to take it easy. He tried resting, ice packs and heating pads, my mom even tried to find ideas online as to what might be wrong, or what could help. After a few months the pain didn’t go away, it just got worse. Eventually my dad made a doctor's appointment. The doctors didn’t find any big problem, they just suggested tests, and prescribed medicines. They set up an home IV for a couple days, recommended yoga, meditation, and acupuncture. I remember one November day when I was in 7th grade coming home from school and seeing my dad sitting at the kitchen table with an IV in his arm and the IV standing but him. I was really scared because it looked like it really hurt, but he …show more content…
When my mom told me about the acupuncture, and how there were a lot needles, that freaked me out at first, but my mom told be it just tickled. I even did yoga with my dad, which I thought was fun. But my mom and dad had to take a lot of time off work to go to the doctors to take tests. After every appointment, my brother and I would meet them by the car. Ryan always asked if he could use the keys to unlock the door, because to him that was the most amazing thing in the world. They would say everything was fine and that dad was feeling better. But I knew that wasn't the case, because I still saw him in pain. I remember one day very clearly, me and my family had just came back from shopping and my dad unlocked the door with the key to get into the garage door, and then again to get into the house. My brothers rushed to TV and turned it on, but my told us to come up to my parents room. My dad told all of us to sit down and he said, “you guys know I have been in pain lately and going to a lot of doctors