Basketball Camp Descriptive Writing

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A noise screeches in my ear as I daze in and out of consciousness. My heavy head slams to the right as my eyes follow slowly behind. I make out three numbers on the screen, 256 BPM. My vision becomes blurry as silhouettes swarm me. There’s a hazy view of two people being rushed out of the room, are those my parents? I feel a sharp jab into my rib cage and my memory fades out.

It was 2009 and it was my third time at my favorite basketball camp, Sly Park. I was finally developing my jump shot, something advanced for a 12-year-old. I would practice over and over during the camp lunch break in the blistering sun of the Placer County hills. I was used to this as my parents always pushed me to work hard. On the Saturday that week, in the middle …show more content…

Laying on my back on a gurney looking up, I counted the lights on the ceiling flickering passed me as I was rushed down the hall, “3, 4, 5…” The lights stopped as we burst through a door and into a damp, dark, green tiled room. I am lifted off the gurney and onto a cold, green leather chair. I looked up to see a bright light blinding me and two men in masks hovering over. “Who are you?” I wanted to say it but couldn’t get the words out. They said something in Spanish that I couldn’t understand. One put his hand out as if to give me a high-five, the other forcefully put a clear plastic mask over my mouth and nose and said slowly “cinco”, they motioned for me to join …show more content…

They walked in the Intensive Care Unit wearing just street clothes. They weren’t allowed to see me when I was so contagious, so my parents told them to travel Spain for a few weeks to get their mind off of things. They were both so tan. I even cried at the sight of them. I said “your teeth are so white.” They cried, finally able to see their brother after what seemed to be weeks. It was obvious they were shielded from what was going on with me. Unlike my parents, they were tan and weren’t sleep deprived. They didn’t have to see me in my worst shape like my parents. I wondered if they even knew what I

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