Witch Doctor

When I was about ten years old, I was camping in Lake Eaton. It had been fourth of July weekend. On July third, I was playing man hunt in the dark with a handful of my close friends. I was being chased; all of a sudden, I was on the ground. I didn’t realize what had happened until I felt the excruciating pain traveling down my arm seconds after the fall. I had tripped over a enormous tree root, and I dropped putting all of my weight on my arm. Don’t even ask how I didn’t see the root, because I…

It seemed like a normal day in Kauai Hawaii for a young girl named Bethany Hamilton, but little did she know that day would change everything. Bethany was a young 13-year-old tall, blonde, and beautiful surfer who was thinking of going pro. On October 31, 2003 Bethany, Alana Blanchard Bethany’s best friend who was also a promising surfer, and Alana's father, went on a surfing holiday. On this beach off Kauai's North Shore, called the "tunnels" it was known by “locals as a great place to catch up…

Elmo Clean Up day It was the third Thursday of September in 2014. My community called Elmo has a community crime watch meeting every third Thursday of the month. The main problem was our community was getting dirty so we decided to have a clean up day 1 month later. My little brother wasn’t looking forward to it but I was ready to clean up my town! So that one month rolled around and it was a record breaking 120 degrees! Or that is how it felt. But I didn’t care. I Had the job of picking up…

parents were worried that I wouldn’t be able to live a normal life, but thanks to the help from doctors I am. I’ve been able to do everything everyone else does. Bilateral club feet causes the feet to point down and in towards each other which makes it impossible to walk. When I was six days old the doctors put me in casts to help move my feet into a normal position. My parents would bring me to the doctor every week to have them recast me and stretch out my achilles tendon The process was very…

seventh grade I started to do competitive swimming and I loved it. Until I started to figure out that there was something wrong with my knees and it was not runners’ knees. As I swam and walked I could feel my knees popping and snapping. I went to a doctor and we did every nonsurgical option there was to try and make this problem go away but nothing would work. Eight days before my eighth grade graduation I had double knee surgery. It turns out that there were bands wrapped around my knee caps…

become more and more involved in my community. The community should think and feel more aware of so many health risks that can be harmful to themselves and others. The thing that saddens me the most being that people become afraid of going to the doctor and having excuses saying that they are okay but they should hark their ears and listen to the people who care about their health or behavior. A perfect example would be that my mother became diagnosed with cervical cancer this month but it…

In figure 1 is my son Leonardo Campos newly born. There is more to the picture than just a cute small baby with jet black hair. Starting October 17th, 2014 at four in the morning I went into labor. On October 18th, 2014 at exactly 11:36 a.m. was the best experience of my life because my adorable son was born, I felt a pain that I will never forget, and along with all that happiness was brought into my life making it sky blue clear. The pain of labor was unbearable; it felt as if a knife was…

1. I, Staff Sergeant Blunt, Warren am writing this to rebut the involuntary separation from AGR due to the following reasons. On 30 April 2015 while taking the run event for the APFT about a ¼ of a mile into run, I tripped over a speed bump and hurt my left ankle. I stopped and walked for about a minute, and then tried to continue the run which was the reason that I didn’t pass the run event. Several witness seen this event happen. I wasn’t told that this APFT counted against me since I was not…

ok. I got up and felt straight back to the ground. I had busted my knee and couldn’t get up, so Devin and Tj carried me inside. Mama came dashing over and was asking what had happened. So we had told her and they took me to the hospital. The doctors called me to the back and numbed my knee with this huge needle. I was…

On the day I was borned, the doctor held me wrong and my arm is now stuck as it is. At that time the doctor told them about my arm and my parents thought I should have surgery. Four weeks later, I had to start the surgery but as the surgery began and I was injected with aspirin to knock me out I started to have a rash and convulse. My parents had found out I was allergic to aspirin so the surgery was cancelled…