Russia
Alexy
Aljona
Arina
Artyom
Dasha M.
Dasha S.
Dima
Dima Zh.
Irina
Ksusha
Kristina
Margarita
Misha
Nastya
Nikita
Olga
Ruslan
Sasha
Zhenya
Zhenya B
Everyone has an event that will haunt them for the rest of their lives. In some cases this is a physical event or a mental event. In my case it was a physical event. The event that I chose was… Well, actually I’m not going to tell you right up front. I’m going to let you read the rest of my story to find out what it was.
It
was a beautiful Sunday morning in the year 1999. This was when I was
still in kindergarten. My family and I were heading out to Hyde Park
to visit some friends for an Easter party. Well, actually it wasn’t a
regular Easter party; it was an Eastern Orthodox Easter party. The party
was actually two weeks after regular Easter. The friends whose house
we were going to were the Davis’s. When we got there, I met up
with my friends Jackie, Alex, and Ben.
After meeting Alex, Ben, And Jackie we went into the backyard to play. Later, after playing on the swings for a while, the parents came and told us we had to walk around the block. We had to do this so that the parents could hide the eggs for the egg hunt. After the egg hunt, we had snacks and watched a movie. None of us had any idea about the event to come.
After watching the movie we went back into the backyard and played some more. Eventually Alex and Ben got the idea to sit in a beach-folding chair and collapse it while sitting in it. Of course, it worked for them but then I gave it a try and then, wham. Then pain hit me like a speeding bullet. When I collapsed the folding chair my ring finger on my left hand got caught. I let out a piercing scream that brought all the adults running. My mom was the first one out. She got my finger out of the chair and had someone wrap it in ice. Then we drove to the hospital. I was still in a lot of pain and crying my eyes out.
Once we got there, I was taken to the emergency room where
a doctor looked at me right away. Once they stopped the bleeding, I was
taken to the x-ray room where they took an x-ray of my finger. It turned
out I had fractured my finger. Then it was time for stitches. I was so
scared because I thought the stitches would hurt. It turned out my fear
was for nothing. They used topical anesthetic so my finger was numb.
The stitches went in without me even feeling anything.
When I went back to school after the incident I had a big cast on my finger. I had to have someone else write for me. Now I still have problems because of it. The nail fell off, and when the new one grew in it was a little misshapen and really curved. Also the pad of my finger was cut off so now instead of having a squishy finger it is really hard and boney. It is also a lot more susceptible to pain. This causes problems when I play guitar because the strings dig into my skin. So, that is the traumatic physical event in my life that I will never forget. What’s your’s?
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