Personal Narrative: How Volleyball Changed My Life

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My body ached, and my brain was debilitated. Understanding even the simplest ideas was beginning to feel laborious. Whenever I understood how behind I was in all of my classes, my brain began to spin. Just the thought of all the lost opportunities in sports and school that I would be missing made my stomach clench. After being faced with several obstacles, trying to get through classes and athletics my sophomore year was strenuous after being faced with several obstacles.
The first day of 10th grade was exhilarating; I finally had a feel for high school.

Little did I know, I would be starting one of the utmost arduous years of my life. Early in
the fall of 2014 was when the rough streak commenced. I spent half of the
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I was excited for practice every day, until about 3 weeks into the season. I began to feel exhausted and dreaded attending practice. I had no idea what had happened, my view on everything was changing alongside my motivation. My enthusiastic attitude towards volleyball had completely diminished. Staying home from school to sleep developed into a regular habit for me. No matter how much sleep I had gotten the night before, I still felt comparable to a zombie walking through the halls at school the next day. Missing games and several practices no longer fazed me. My varsity spot was slipping through my fingers, but I was too tired to even care anymore. A few weeks after I started feeling this way, my parents decided that this might be something deeper than we originally speculated and took me to the doctor. I sat in the room and had my blood drawn and several other tests done. After being tested, I received the news that I had infectious mononucleosis. I was forced to retire from the volleyball team, along with any other physical activity, due an enlarged spleen that could potentially burst if faced with an impact to the area. Nevertheless, volleyball was not the only matter affected by this illness. My grades were falling and my schoolwork was not getting done. Coming in early and staying after school was now regular behavior for me in efforts to catch up to my peers. Late in October I was finally healthy and was up to date with my schoolwork. Now feeling back to normal, I was excited for the fast approaching basketball

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