Personal Narrative: Splash

“Splash” hearing that sound was so annoying but what hurt more was my mom telling me to go get all of the stuff being thrown into the water. After hearing my mother yell at my brother for an hour you’d think he’d get the message to stop throwing stuff into the water. Unfortunately this wasn’t the case hed throw something in and I would go get it. There was one item that I couldent reach so my mom came out to get it. She also was unable to reach the item so she grabbed my fishing pole and tried to hook it. One, two, three. BOOM. I found myself tugging and tugging. Sadly, this wasn’t going to be fixed with a simple tug.

Hearing my mom’s lungs come out of her mouth I started to panic and panic. This red circle hook was not going to come out of my eye that easily. All I remember was sitting on a couch with a towel over my eye. All I heard was my mom panicking on the phone with my dad because he was offshore that day with my brother. The options were limited with no car, either an ambulance or wait for my dad to come back with the keys to the car. Honestly I had no clue what to even do I was scared for my life at that moment in time. With my mom panicking and me not knowing what to
We walked in and I just moved the towel, all they said was keep going and gave us a room number to go to. Immediately doctors started pouring into the room from nurses to interns they were all fascinated with a hook in my eye. As a seven year old you are impatient and that is exactly what I was. Laying in a bed was not my kind of thing especially with a hook in my eye. There was a CATCH to getting this out of my eye, the shrimp was still on the hook. Not one nurse would want to come near it because of the shrimp. Finally a real doctor arrived and said this was going to hurt badly. Preparing for a rush of pain in my eye I only felt a little pinch. Surprisingly they took a huge needle and stuck it into the side of my