Personal Narrative: How Disability Changed My Life

My parents and I were getting ready to leave after a long night waiting for results when the doctor came in and told me the scariest thing I have ever heard in my life. He said that if I had landed and inch and a half more forward on my neck then I would have been paralyzed and in a wheelchair for the rest of my life.
When I was in first grade at Morris Brandon Elementary School, something very bad happened to me. I was jumping on my trampoline that my sister had gotten 4 days before this for her birthday when I woke up in scorching pain not being able to move. It felt like I had woken up from a long nap. From the neck down my body was tingling and it was very tight. My eyes felt like I was in space. I really had no clue what was going on. It was almost like it hurt so bad that I couldn’t even feel anything. I had gone into mild shock and wasn’t saying anything. My mind was going bizarre and I was thinking about my childhood and all these random things, it was almost like my life flashed before my eyes. It felt like I had dreamt about my whole life in the span
I was propped up and doctors were coming in and out doing test on me. They would walk in about every 30 minutes and would make me do different stretches. I would have to do them and explain to them what I was feeling. I remember that some of the stretches hurt so bad that I would scream out in pain. They did this for almost 4 hours and every time the stretch would even more. For some of them I had to bite a towel so I wouldn’t scream. I was there overnight, while my dad was puking because he was sick. I was not sure if he was puking because of my injury or if he was really sick so I got out of my hospital bed, which I was not supposed to do and walked over to check on him. Meanwhile at home my mom was planning the move in. She and my sister were so worried, always calling my dad for news and calling me in the emergency