Personal Narrative: My Experience In Surgery

I was getting ready for surgery, and all I hear is nothing. They put some sort of mask over my mouth.
“Just close your eyes and try to sleep,” the doctor said. I can feel my eyelids finding it hard to stay open. Next thing I knew I was out. I wake up with a lot of questions flowing through my head. I looked around the room only to find a bunch of doctors running around in their greens scrubs. I’m a little confused, but I manage to figure out things. My appendix ruptured; I'm in a hospital. Wow. Those are all the things I could sort out. I was too busy focusing on 3 new scars I'll be having for the rest of my life and how intense the pain was. I never really knew what my appendix was and no one else did. But when I got to the hospital they explained everything there was to know about the appendix.
That didn’t work out so well because I ended up puking that right back up. I lost about 20 pounds in two weeks because I couldn’t keep stuff down. After I went home a couple days my throat was killing me. We went to the doctor and they said I had strep throat. They said I got it from the hospital with all the germs. I was really upset because I had to miss even more school. I ended up missing 3 weeks of school. I surprisingly didn’t have a lot of homework to make up. Then again it was only fourth grade. My surgery impacted my life greatly. I was really frightened by that event. But on the bright side when I have another crummy stomach ache at least I know it’s not an appendicitis. I’m really grateful though because there was a chance that I didn’t make it out of surgery alive. It was unlikely, but there was still a chance. My mom was a huge part of this. She stayed with me every day and night. I’m extremely lucky and very