Race-Personal Narrative

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It all started on a nice summer day everything started off so great. Me and my cousins were outside throwing football, baseball and riding bikes all day long. We went inside to eat lunch, when we were at the table eating. My cousin Alex asked me to race him after we got done eating. We went outside and lined up our bikes where we were going to race. My mom came outside and told us not to race because someone is going to get hurt, I kinda just shook her off and we raced anyways. At the starting line my brother had his hands up getting ready to start the race. He says, “ready set go.” We took off pedaling as fast as our little feet would go. The race was intense I was determined to win at any cost. We were racing for about 100 feet, neither of us were really winning the lead kept on changing. We came upon a curve, but I didn’t want to lose so …show more content…
I was able to feel my finger at this point, the pain was unbelievable it hurt so bad that I really couldn’t feel it. They started to numb my finger with a bunch of little needles, they stabbed me like 25 times deep into the flesh in the tip of my finger. I was screaming they had like 10 doctors and nurses over top of me holding me down and stabbing my finger. After they got my finger numbed up they took me outside on the hospital bed and put me in an ambulance to take me to Kosair Childrens Hospital. They ride in the ambulance was awful every time we hit a bump it would hurt my finger. The ride was only like 45 minutes but it felt like 5 hours. When we got the hospital they rushed me in and took me back to a room. They asked her for the finger when she handed them the finger they said, “we will try to sew it back on but it probably won't work because you put the finger on ice and not in cold water.” They took me to a room and gave me some gas so that I would go to sleep. It took about 10 minutes to zone out, and I don’t remember anything else after

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