Narrative Essay On Xrays

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During the first grade, I went to a pool back in Richmond. As soon as I jumped in, I knew something was wrong. When my family got out of the pool, my parents noticed I was limping. I told them that my knee had been bothering me, so we went and got x-rays. After the x-rays, they said thay there was nothing, so we continued our lives normally. My knee was not getting better, but we were moving up to Pennsylvania at the time. Once we fully got moved in to our new house, my mom who was very frusturated took me to Dr. Wells, who was an intelligent, orthopedist that specialized in children's diseases. While going through the entire process I was extremely courageous and fearful of what could hapen. In addition, this time of my life was sad and serious. …show more content…

My parents thought i was faking because the doctors in Richmond did not find anything in the x-rays. They did not find anything in the x-rays because the problem was in really in my hip, however my knee was the part that felt like something was wrong. I was in lots of pain and my parents had no idea what it was, so they took the family on all kinds of hiking trips. After the hikes in Richmond, my family moved to Pennsylvania. Dr. Wells was interested in hatit was so he too x-rays of my entire lower body instead of just my knee. After the x-rays, Dr. Wells said that I had Perthes. He explained that it meant my hip was not getting blood because the disease was cutting it off causing the bone to slowly

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