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When I was about four or five years old I had to get my tonsils taken out which are located in the back of your mouth. A few weeks had passed and my mom had realized that my neck was a little swollen. My mom then made an appointment with the doctor and when he looked at my throat he said it was time. I then found out after they finished taking out my tonsils from my mouth they had said I should’ve woke up 10 minutes before , but ( I didn't ). When I finally woke up from what I call a long sleep all I remember was me walking into a room and fainting on the floor in front of a little girl. When they rushed me back to the emergency room they said I started to gush out blood from my mouth.
When I was about four or five years old I had to get my tonsils taken out which are located in the back of your mouth. A few weeks had passed and my mom had realized that my neck was a little swollen. My mom then made an appointment with the doctor and when he looked at my throat he said it was time. I then found out after they finished taking out my tonsils from my mouth they had said I should’ve woke up 10 minutes before , but ( I didn't ). When I finally woke up from what I call a long sleep all I remember was me walking into a room and fainting on the floor in front of a little girl.
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A few weeks had passed and my mom had realized that my neck was a little swollen. My mom then made an appointment with the doctor and when he looked at my throat he said it was time. I then found out after they finished taking out my tonsils from my mouth they had said I should’ve woke up 10 minutes before , but ( I didn't ). When I finally woke up from what I call a long sleep all I remember was me walking into a room and fainting on the floor in front of a little girl. When they rushed me back to the emergency room they said I started to gush out blood from my
After about three days of this my whooping cough was not getting any better and my parents started to get worried. My two older sisters had not suffered as much as I had and they decided to call my doctor. He came to our house that evening and as soon as he saw me and heard me cough he told my parents I needed to go to hospital that night. I was terrified. I had never been to a hospital; well not since I was born anyway.
I stopped, and stood there, trying to get back to my senses. I stepped into the road to cross the street to get to my car, when I was ran over, and flew maybe ten feet. When I hit the floor, I immediately passed out.
The first time I experienced a seizure I was 15 years old. It was supposed to be one of the most exciting days in a teenager’s young life, the day I got my learners license. My dad woke me up very early that morning so we would be one of the first people in line at the DMV. However when we finally got there after the half hour drive there was already a long line. I remember experiencing one of the worst headaches of my life while standing in the line that stretched well outside the building, but I just figured it was because of the lack of sleep from the night before and the growing nervousness I was having about taking my written test. Before I knew it, I am waking up groggily in a brightly lit small room with a lady standing over me. Not knowing where I am, I begin to panic wanting to get out of the bed and find my dad. Suddenly I hear a familiar voice. I look up and see my dad at my side with tears in his eyes. I had never seen my dad cry in my whole 15 years, he is a manly man who does not show emotion easily. Scared and confused I asked him where I was. He tells me that I had a seizure and we are in the emergency room. I remember laying in the bed so dumbfounded. At the time I was not even sure what a seizure was exactly, all I knew is that I had just had one and I had never felt so physically or emotionally drained in my life.
My earliest recollection is when I was around six I had a seizure at school. I was in hospital for a few months and the doctors were constantly running test and giving me shots. The doctors had found a tumor on my brain, which was causing the seizures. During this time I was unaware of what was going on, so I was just trying to figure out ways to play in the hospital and make the
I was 6 years old when I found out I had epilepsy. My mom was sitting at her desk on the phone with her, then boyfriend. I was laid out across the couch asleep. When I awoke, I felt my face begin to tingle and gradually my entire to shake. I was aware of my surroundings, but yet, I couldn’t control my body. I was panicking because there was nothing I could do, I recall peeing on myself. My mother panicked because she hadn’t experienced this before. She quickly hung up on her now, husband and called 911.
When my father picked me up I was blacked out and only remember getting home and falling to the ground because I was unable to function. My father carried me to my bed and shut my door without saying a word, which is when I knew I had made a mistake. I went to bed, oblivious to what really happened to me. I woke up with a pounding headache and was still unable to walk on my own. I felt pain, regret and memory loss.
In the spring of my sophomore year, my grandfather was rushed to the hospital. He could not see and his left eye was swollen. At the time the only source was my aunt who lived in El Salvador with them. We were 3, 258.2 miles away from them without knowing what was going, unless my aunt or grandmother were to call us. The doctors ran multiple tests on him and did not know what was causing his left eye to swell and the loss of vision. I remember the terrifying call like it was yesterday.
As we got in the car I had a whole roll of paper towels next to me.I was holding the towels on my head,one after another after another.I had started sereaming in agony from the pain and throbing of my head.My dad pulled over so my mom could comfort me and get me to stop screaming,I looked in the car and my brother was horrifyed from blood
I was in hospital gown for the first time, wondering why it fits so weird and doesn’t cover everything while staring eagerly at the ceiling, still picturing my mothers smile parted from me few minutes ago, I could tell she was worried but wasn’t sure why. Despite being five year old the feeling of fear and trepidation were replaced by ones of curiosity and wonderment. What was going to be done, How it will put and end to my most feared nightmare at the time? Frequent penicillin shots! I was excited and wondered if I get to see my tonsils after removal; I was told there were two of them!
I felt like I had been hit by a train. My whole body ached, and I was scraped up pretty badly. I looked down at my hands and they were purple from the impact. However, it was my wrist that had very little movement and it looked like a baseball. This made for a night of awful sleep. My whole arm was throbbing and numb, I was so sore that it hurt to walk.The house was silent, everyone asleep, I stared up at the ceiling, reflecting on everything that had happened that night. Early the next morning after everyone was up, we went back out to the neighbors yard to see exactly what it was that I tripped over. It wasn't too hard to find. It was a small black garden fence, which would be completely invisible in the dark. The part of the fence I tripped over was pulled up out of the dirt with the wires stretched from where my shoe had gone through. We tried to fix their fence as best we could so nothing would look out of the ordinary. After it was back in the
When I was about four years old I was playing around with my sister and my dad. He was teaching us a trick on how to flip. We would squat down with our legs spread apart and our arms in between. Then he would pull our hands upward and we would flip. It was pretty fun for my sister and I. My dad continued to flip us, eventually he became tired and told us that was it he could not take it anymore. However, my sister and I wanted to keep going. So my sister, who was only seven, and I decided we could try it ourselves. Not the best idea given our small height difference. Anyways we gave it a try. I squatted down and put my hands between my legs and my sister pulled. When she pulled my head went down and instead of flipping I ended up banging my head against the ground. As soon as I could registered what happened I sat up straight and screamed bloody murder. My father ran to see what happened. Fortunately, there was no blood running down the side of my face. After a ice pack and a few hour of my mother consoling me I felt fine. That night I had did my regular nightly routine and went to bed. I found myself a few hours later shaking but yet restricted. I tried to scream out for my parents however, nothing came out. I tried my hardest to make it shift myself closer to the wall to make some kind of noise by hitting the wall so someone could hear me. What felt like ten minutes later, may have only been a minute my sister heard the noise and ran into my room. I am not sure how horrific seeing someone having a seizure is, especially someone you love, but my sister screamed to the top of her lungs...
I woke up screaming. There was a terrible, stabbing pain in my stomach. The doctors and nurses rushed into my room immediately. My parents were standing by my hospital bed wide-eyed with a strong look of concern on their faces. Everyone tried to calm me down but the screams were uncontrollable. I screamed for 30 minutes until the doctors put pain medication into my IV bag and I drifted slowly back to sleep.
In the hospital they immediatly put an IV into my wrist. I had a low blood pressure, cholesterol, potassium, and calcium. I was underweight and my heart was beating irreguarly. They interrogated me and hesatinly told them that I suffered with bulimia. It felt like a buliding had just dropped right above me, and it was suffocating me. Tears built up in my mothers eyes as she cried like never before. “Samantha, you nearly faced death, if you hadnt been brought in today or any day earlier,” said my doctor. A train of realization hit me, I didnt
I was 18 and I was waking up one morning for school. I got all dressed, and it was the beginning of fall and it was pretty chilly outside so I would wait inside. I was lucky enough to have the bus stop right in front of my house. So I would wait at the screen door for the bus to come down the street before going out the door. However, that morning I had no idea my mother would go into a spell. Before I could walk out the door my mother hit me with a Coca-Cola bottle, so hard I started bleeding. Picking my face off the ground baffled at what just happened before my eyes. My mom snapped, she was mad because she thought someone had opened her drink the night before. However, the bottle was never opened. But she figured since she saw an empty bottle that it had to be something me or my brothers