Personal Narrative Essay: Three Injuries

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Back when I was in the fifth grade. I had three injuries back to back. First I broke my index finger, then ring finger, and finally my right collar bone. The first two where due to sports, but the last one was due to the fact that I was stupid. So pretty much I stayed hurt in fifth grade. I had found it to be so hysterical that all my injuries happened on my right side of my body. Well let me explain how I got them three injuries.

Well, I have played baseball from Tee-ball from Babe Ruth so injuries are not expected to happen but the do. So in the fifth grade I had gotten my first injury. It was the second game, and I was up at bat. Ready to knock ball over the fence. The pitcher throw a late breaking curveball. So I decide to
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It was a new team, new season, and fresh off of an injury. I was looking great with all-star intentions. All-star is where the elite players play around summer time. And I was heading there trust me, but then again tragedy struck. One day at practice on a routine pop fly I did everything right but one thing. That was I had put my right hand in the wrong spot. Your throwing hand should go behind the glove that way you don’t injure yourself. But for some reason I decided to put hand along the palm of glove. And when the ball hit my glove it hit my palm and rolled down and hit my ring finger causing it to bend backwards. This is probably my worst injury I would say. So any way I go to doctor and he tells me I am going to be in a cask for a few weeks, when I come back next week for a checkup and if I hasn’t stared healing I would have to surgery because I might have broken a growth plate. Thankfully I didn’t but that was surely the scariest thing about that whole …show more content…
I was on an all-star. And school was about to end I was moving on from elementary to middle. I had passed all my EOGs and ready to have fun. Every year during the last week of school. Pembroke Elementary would have a fun day, they would have bouncers, food, etc. Anything that would make a kid feel joy inside. I get in a bouncy slide, get all the way to the top and I see kids not sliding down but running. And I remember thinking to myself well that seems fun. So on the first try I did it right, its simple right you’re just running down a bouncy slide what’s the worst that can happen. We’ll let tell me tell you. I got back on the top of the slide an started running down it and right before I reached the bottom I tripped and landed on my collar bone awkwardly. I rolled out in pain screaming trying to get one of my teachers to notice me. So finally they call my mom and she will get there in thirty minutes or so. She gets there takes me to the same doctor as the previous injuries. He looks at me and say’s “how do you hurt yourself so many times.” I look at him and grin. So through the whole all-star season I sit on the bench wishing is was

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