My mother underwent a similar state of mind as I did, when faced with an upsetting…
I called walter for supper late that evening, He spoken back and said “ I’m not hungry.” I was thinking about what he said because he has not ate all day. I called him a repeated time and said “come down to the kitchen “ My husband was already sitting at the table with his meal ahead of him. Walter was walking pretty stiffened looking but i did not mind it. His father ask “ What’s wrong with you, boy?” Walter talk back as his common answer “Nothing.” My husband said the same thing just his tone a little more deeper , more resolute. Walter says “ My leg hurts,” My husband commanded walter to take is pants down. When walter undid his belt and his pants went down i was shock and gasped from how much dry blood, bruises, and swelling. I was also thinking what in the world was he doing outside ! my husband said in a demand tone“what happened to you?” And right then and there he said something so outrageous that god probably was listen to the conversation now. Walter said “Mama beat me with a stick,” and he started to cry. I was so mad and shock that i just didn’t say a word. In my head i’m thinking my walter. My baby walter just lied to his father and lied on me , but i kept my mouth trap closed. My husband went crazy he said “If you ever . . . how . . . why . . . If you ever…
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It was the middle of an away sophomore baseball game against DeWitt. My brother, Keegan, was up to bat. The pitch came, he swung and down he went. The baseball came off his bat and drilled him in the left eye. There was only one parent there, one of Keegan’s teammate’s dad. He drove Keegan to the hospital and called my parents. At the time, I was at a softball game working the scoreboard for the varsity West Delaware Hawks team. My mom called to tell me my grandma would pick me up when I was done and that her and my dad were on their way to the Iowa City hospital. My dad was at work at the time and met my mom there. They would explain more later. After they got down there and I got home with my sisters, I called my mom. She gave me an explanation…
Trying to go to school the next day. Standing in the shower thinking maybe if I dont get out I wouldn't have to start my day and move on with it all. But as the water turns to a shivering cold I realize it’s all too real. Pushing through the first five periods of the day, the last three seemed as too much. Feeling as if I will never be able to be happy again. All these gloomy days crafted me into who I am today. This whole experience making me grow up just a little bit faster, and a little more mature and understanding seeming as I already live the life as an adult, but only being a…
Four long decades later, I live in a nice house with my husband and two adolescent daughters. I would not have been here without having that argument with my mother, though I do still despise her and have ever since. However, I have learnt that I should not argue with my children and love them both…
At just about the hour when my father died, soon after dawn one February morning when ice coated the windows like cataracts, I banged my thumb with a hammer. Naturally I swore at the hammers the reckless thing, and in the moment of swearing I thought of what my father would say: "If you'd try hitting the nail it would go in a whole lot faster. Don't you know your thumb's not as hard as that hammer?" We both were doing carpentry that day, but far apart. He was building cupboards at my brother's place in Oklahoma; I was at home in Indiana, putting up a wall in the basement to make a bedroom for my daughter. By the time my mother called with news of his death--the long distance wires whittling her voice until it seemed too thin to bear the weight of what she had to say-my thumb was swollen. A week or so later a white scar in the shape of a crescent moon began to show above the cuticle and month by month it rose across the pink sky of my thumbnail. It took the better part of a year for the scar to disappear, and every time I noticed it I thought of my father.…
I felt a fire starting up inside of me. My mom thinks I am a baby and can't handle things on my own. I felt adrenaline hit me like a mad bull. " I am a big boy I can handle anything," I angrily shouted. I got my moms big mirror, and with all my strength I tried to carry it up to our apartment. One of my shoes were untied, and I was beginning to lose my balance, my mom's mirrored weight about 25 pounds and were about 4 feet wide and 4 feet long. For a small skinny guy like me, that was pretty big and heavy to carry all the way to the apartment. Eventually, I lost all my balance and fell the stairs. I was able to stop myself by holding on to the ramp, but as I held on to the ramp, I quickly noticed I had let go of my mom's mirror. That mirror flew down the stairs, and once it hit the ground, it immediately shattered like all how my behind was going be after she was done with giving me whoopings. My mother saw the whole event happen before her eyes. I didn't even want to look at her facial expression, I already knew what was coming for me, I held my butt tight and was praying that I would still have a tail left over when she was through with…
I didn’t know heartbreak until June 28, when my dad told me that he had stage 4 cancer. I didn’t know fear until August 13, when I found out that he would have to undergo radiation to combat a tumor in his brain. I didn’t know weariness until August 24, when everyone at school talked about how great their summer had been, and I had to lie and say that mine had been fine. I didn’t know how deep my love for my dad ran until June 29, when I wiped away my tears, stood a little straighter, and vowed to help him find little rays of light in even the worst days.…
As my teen years started to come the more accomplishments I achieved the more angry I got because I wanted that father and son bond time. It started to affect me a lot I started to think different in school, lashing out at people for nothing so of course people started to notice the difference in me. Then people started offering me help and some I didn’t even know so then I stopped talking a lot and one day me and my mom had a disagreement about a box of cereal and then my body just let go and I snapped. It was like I couldn’t control myself I was letting so much out over something so small and once I cooled down I sat down and thought about it and I thought to myself I can’t live like this. So I ask my mom for some changes so now I live with a full figure family a little bother a little sister…
It was a perfectly normal Saturday night, until I sat on the couch. I expected to enjoy a funny movie with my dad, but instead I got a trip to the hospital. I sat on the couch, and then I felt a sting in my elbow. At first, it felt like I got a shot at the doctor, but it slowly got worse, and felt more like a knife slicing into my elbow. I winced and sprung up from the couch. I squinted and my eyes scanned the spot where I just sat down. Aha, I thought. There was a small piece of plastic, and it looked like it broke off from a container.…
I closed my eyes and as I opened them I was looking straight at my mother. That instant our eyes were locked I never wanted the lock to break. Another tear slipped down, and I could taste the salty warmth on my tongue. The crash took five seconds but it felt like ten years. This time I heard the words “I’m wrong mom. I’m sorry mom.” In an instant the noise grew so loud it seemed like I was standing in the middle of a nuclear bomb. Not a second later it was silent and the world around me went pitch…
I decided to cut through the freshly dewed pine straw, which was slick from a heavy rainstorm the previous night. My feet started to slip from underneath me and my weight forcefully dragged towards the ground. Before I can stop my fall, my head smashed against hard cold cement. No thoughts went through my head. Neither pain nor suffering. Only Darkness. I woke up but only saw out of one eye. Warm thick blood ran down my face completely covering up my left eye. I was on the ground feeling nauseous and scared. I tried to stand, but I could not pry myself up, due to my broken clavicle. I decide to slowly crawl into the parking lot, in hopes that a bystander would see me. A man sprinted towards me and I stared dead into his eyes, and that is when I realize that the cut was worse then I had thought. Tears furiously run down my face and I let out screams of agony. The man propped me up against a black Ford F-150, and tried to reassure me that everything will be all right. I had a hard time believing him when his hands were shaking and he is yelling for help like somebody had just gotten shot. The man quickly took off my jacket and tried to stop the bleeding by applying pressure to the wound as a few parents rush to help. It must have been my lucky day since 4 doctors were at NYO and they were now by my side…
From that moment on, everything turned into a disaster. As soon as I got up i felt my head warm and wet at the same time. That only got me to thinking that it was blood. I immediately began crying because I knew I had split my head open. Everyone in the living room heard my cry and ran right to the staircase including my cousins. No one had any clue how I got injured. Without thinking about how it happened my mom started cleaning the blood running down my forehead and said "we need to get him the the hospital right now". My dad got his car turned on and everyone in the house decided to come along with us to the hospital. After checking me up doctor told me that I had to get…
It was a Saturday like any other Saturday. One afternoon I went outside to go play with a few friends. I was about 6 in the first grade and I was a normal kid. Actually I was a little dare devil. I was doing anything someone dared me to do. But, this day would change my mind about all of that. So, I found a few friends and we decided to go play at the park. At the park the monkey bars were for the big kid. My friends and I were all looking at the monkeys bars and then, they all looked at me. My friend Kevin said to me “I dare you to go across the monkey bars” and trying to tough I said “ok”. As I walked over the bars I had a littlestomachache but, I ignored it. As I approached the monkeys bars I am telling myself “you can do “over and over again. I then climbed the ladder and got to the first bars and decided to be fancy and skip every other bar as I went across the bars. As I was going across the bars I stopped in the middle out of nowhere and got scared. So, I let go of the bar that I was on and put my arms under me because I was going face first. Everything happened so fast that the next thing I knew I was looking at my arm as under my skin you can see a bone was out of place. One of my friends ran and got my mother and, she came over going crazy and called my stepdad to bring me to the hospital I called the whole way there. And, for the next 6 weeks I was in a cast but I learned my lesson that bad. Never go on the big monkeys bars nor stop in the middle of the bars.…