Scoliosis Surgery-Personal Narrative Analysis

Having scoliosis surgery was definitely an extreme setback for me, emotionally and physically. I went in for surgery July 17th,2014 a freshman now soon to be going into my sophomore year and i was on bed rest for the entire summer. As an athlete loving the sport I play and having so much passion it was unpleasant knowing that I was going to miss an entire season. For the entire summer, it was hard for me to walk again because I was still in pain. I can definitely say I was going through a distraught time in my life having to look at four walls every day wanting to be able to have fun and be active. As the two months of my recovery went by, I tried so hard to try and recover as quick as possible. Although during the time it seemed like recovery was just going to be much more difficult I tried to have a positive outlook on having this surgery done besides the fact that It was something that was urgently needed. I asked my mom if homeschooling was going to be an option and my doctor said that it would not be necessary and so my mother thought the same. I was not prepared to do the daily routine of …show more content…
The exact opposite happened, I did not have any type of motivation all i wanted to do was go to school and go home. I was annoyed with knowing that i still could not do any activities and extremely frustrated knowing that i basically could not do anything for myself. My friends were not around as much as i wish they should have and could have been i was basically my only motivator. The one thing that always kept me motivated and still does keep me motivated was out of my ability to do. I would have sit downs with my SBYS counselor and he definitely did try and motivate me, and he would but it would not stay. I did not do extremely horrible my sophomore year but now as a senior, I do have to work way harder now when I could have put in all the work during the